Beijing, China, From XPRN Aug 22, 2008 

The success of 2008 Beijing Olympics Games comes from the efforts of hundreds of thousands of working personnel and more volunteers, while 155 Jungheinrich forklift-trucks also play the key role in the logistics guarantee service work of the whole Olympics Games. The complicated logistics services such as the transportation of sports equipments, the catering of the athletes or the waste disposal of Olympics venues are all closely related to Jungheinrich forklift-truck. 
 

We may hear about the sponsors of Olympics Games many times such as UPS, the exclusive sponsor of logistics and express delivery of the Olympics Games; SCHENKER, the exclusive sponsor of freight forwarding and custom clearance; ARAMARK, the catering service provider; and McDonald, the Olympics Partner and the exclusive formal cooperative restaurant, but few people know that these business giants which render the service to Beijing Olympics Games uniformly select all of the forklift trucks from one company – Jungheinrich.

It is known that Beijing Olympics Games needs to deliver and store more than 1 million sports equipments, several times the weight of steel structure of Water Cube. Except for the single equipment whose weight exceeds 30 thousand tons or the super-long equipments such as canoe and trampoline, most of the relevant equipments including table tennis and discus and ancillary equipments of these venues including the computer and score board require the delivery of forklift truck. The organizing unit, the coaches and the athletes all pay more attentions to the safety performance of sports equipments. The high –quality forklift truck and high-standard operation are the vigorous guarantee of the transport safety of the sports equipments. Jungheinrich specially organizes the logistics service team of Olympics Games by dispatching 48 high-caliber forklift-truck drivers to Olympics Games’ sports venues and logistics center in order to render the high-standard professional services.

Beijing Olympics Games is the games in which the most countries and athletes participate in history, as seen by 295 thousand athletes, coaches, reporters and working personnel of more than 200 countries and regions, who will consume the tremendous quantities of the food during the period of Beijing Olympics Games including 930 thousand bananas, 680 thousand carrots, 310 thousand oranges….. All raw materials and drinking water which cook more than 800 dishes of Olympics Games require the delivery by Jungheinrich forklift truck. Mr. Niu Aijun, a Jungheinrich forklift truck driver sent to the Bird’s Nest told the reporter that they would deliver to the Bird’s Nest not only the equipments of the opening ceremony but also the drinking water and beverage of the CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao, the VIP guests of different countries and more than 90 thousand audiences and also the special beverage for the athletes.

As one of the global top forklift truck manufacturer and the listed company in Germany, Jungheinrich earned the sales turnover of 3.18 billion USD, ranking the No.3 place in the industry. Among the top 5 forklift truck manufacturers in the world, Jungheinrich achieves the fastest turnover growth rate over that of last year. According to the remark of Kay Devlin, Jungheinrich’s spokesman, Jungheinrich’s high-speed growth mainly comes from Russia and China. Jungheinrich’s high quality, high technical standard and comprehensive service support are very popular in the Chinese market.

According to the features of Olympics Games, Jungheinrich provides the internationally most advanced 155 counter-balanced and electric stacker of different specifications such as EFG360， ERE120，FEG320，EFG430， ETV116， EJC112 and DFG to the logistics service work of Beijing Olympics Games. With the carrying capacities of 1.2 tons to 6 tons and the maximum lifting height of 8 meters, these forklift trucks can fit the inner space characters of Olympics venues. Due to the short term and temporary nature of Olympics Games, these forklift trucks render the service in the leasing form.

Jungheinrich’s Olympics logistics service lasts from March I, 2007 when Olympics Logistics Center was put into formal operation to the closing ceremony of Olympics Games. From the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics Games to the closing ceremony thereof, the logistics work of all Olympics venues will be done with Jungheinrich’s forklift trucks to ensure the high efficiency and high quality of logistics service except for the open-air or rainy-day works not suitable for the forklift truck. According to the logistics demand of competitor venues and non-competitor venues, Jungheinrich’s forklift trucks are configured in a scientific way. Except for 50 Jungheinrich forklift trucks in Olympics Logistics Center, four forklift trucks are also available in the Bird’s Nest, the busiest venue of Beijing Olympics Game and 10 forklift trucks in the public area of Olympics Garden outside Bird’s Nest. Most venues such as Water Cube and Worker’s Stadium only respectively require 1 forklift truck to make sure the smooth routine logistics service.

The reporter got to know that, under the insistence of Sherry Zhang, the person in charge of Jungheinrich’s Olympics logistics work, Jungheinrich temporarily, in order to guarantee the operation safety, dispatched the diesel-driven forklift trucks of the other companies to dismantle the steel structure of the closing ceremony and lay the stadium sod due to the rainy weather after the completion of the closing ceremony.

The little forklift truck symbolizes the new productive force. It is less than 100 years since the forklift truck that can elevate and move the goods was invented in 1917, and the computer- based forklift truck emerged in 1970’s. The modern forklift truck is not only the machine that can elevate and move the goods but also the integral part of automatic work process. The beverage and food delivered by Jungheinrich’s forklift truck are attached with the computer code which can be precisely positioned for scientific management.

According to UPS’s data, it is expected to deliver more than 19 million articles for Beijing Olympics Games. The seemingly impossible mission can be done with only 102 Jungheinrich’s forklift truck in addition to the large-scale machines such as hoist. The reporter cannot help complimenting that we never image that the little forklift truck contributes a lot to the success of Olympics Games so it is the true hero behind Beijing Olympics Games.