CLX Logistics, a leader in global logistics services, announced that its chemical division, ChemLogix, has been named the recipient of the Supply Chain Service Provider Excellence Award by Solvay Chemicals.

“CLX Logistics was selected as the recipient of the tenth annual Supply Chain Service Provider Excellence Award for outstanding performance, partnership and commitment to Solvay Chemicals,” said Scott Williams, Vice President of Supply Chain, Solvay Chemicals. “In addition to providing exceptional services, their flexibility and proactive approach to addressing discrepancies directly with carriers reduced our workload and eliminated investigations.”

The Supply Chain Service Provider Excellence Award is presented to the logistics supplier that demonstrates extraordinary performance throughout the year. The award nominations are solicited from Solvay Chemicals employees who have a working knowledge of the nearly 170 critical logistics suppliers. The award recipient is selected based on employee recommendations and extensive internal performance metrics.

“We are honored that Solvay selected us as the winner of this prestigious award,” said David Vieira, President and Chief Operating Officer, CLX Logistics. “CLX Logistics is dedicated to providing true, sustainable economic value to our customers. The award serves as affirmation of our commitment to addressing the supply chain needs of our growing global customer base.”

CLX Logistics LLC, a leader in global logistics services announced the appointment of David Vieira as the President and Chief Operating Officer of CLX Logistics. Mr. Vieira brings more than two decades of executive logistics industry experience to his new role, having most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer at MXD Group.

“We are excited to have attracted a proven logistics executive such as David to help drive the continued growth of CLX Logistics,” said Steve Hamilton, CLX Logistics Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “David has extensive experience leading change and improving efficiencies across a range of business disciplines and company lifecycles. We expect him to bring immediate leadership and focus to a variety of critical operational initiatives.”

While at MXD Group, Mr. Vieira was responsible defining and shaping a $300m home delivery logistics business following a divestiture of Exel Direct from Deutsche Post World Net, and acquiring and integrating the company’s biggest competitor, Home Direct, Inc. Prior to MXD Group, Mr. Vieira served as the President of Exel Direct, Inc. and spent 25 years with Exel, Inc. a leading third party logistics business where he led teams in the Automotive and Retail markets. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Providence College.

“CLX Logistics is pioneer in the logistics industry and I am excited to be part of its future,” said Mr. Vieira.  “In addition to focusing on our customers and their needs, I plan to help build high-performing teams to service the industry verticals and solidify our position as an industry leader in logistics.”

CLX Logistics LLC, a leader in global logistics services, and technology partner Kewill, a leader in multimodal transportation management systems, announced its sponsorship for the 2015 LogiChem European Chemical Supply Chain and Logistics event held on April 21 – April 23, 2015 in Antwerp, Belgium. This year’s conference is focused on integrating supply chain as a business enabler to maximize growth and improve overall operational performance.

“We are pleased to sponsor this industry leading event dedicated to providing supply chain solutions to chemical manufacturers,” said Steve Hamilton, CEO of CLX Logistics. “It provides CLX Logistics, our chemical logistics division, ChemLogix, and our partner Kewill, with the opportunity to share and enhance our global logistics solutions.”

Cosmas Hoefnagels, Vice President of CLX Logistics Europe, will act as the chairman for the conference’s Transport Optimization Summit on April 21, designed to provide insights on navigating increasing complexities to reach the optimal network design and how transport management systems are driving efficiencies in the supply chain. “I look forward to discussing supply chain priorities for the years to come and to exchange experiences and issues with a great group of speakers who all have senior management positions in the industry,” stated Hoefnagels. “Our goal is to achieve a high level of interaction between speakers and the audience through round tables, panel debates and the exchange of practical business cases.”

“Kewill is delighted to be a co-sponsor with CLX Logistics in this forum which brings the top chemical companies and the world’s most experienced supply chain experts together,” said Evan Puzey, CMO of Kewill. “The conference will enable us to engage with industry leaders about our partnership with CLX Logistics and our multimodal transportation management software solutions.”

LogiChem 2015 will host industry-leading speakers who will discuss transportation optimization, how aligning supply chain and business strategies drives performance, and improving supply chain performance using technology. For more information on LogiChem 2015, please visit to www.logichem.wbresearch.com.

About CLX Logistics LLC

CLX Logistics LLC is a global provider of comprehensive logistics management, technology, and supply chain consulting services to a broad base of industry verticals. The global company, with offices in North America and Europe, is dedicated to solving its customers’ most vital logistics challenges by leveraging a broad range of industry expertise, best-of-breed technology and a personalized, high-touch approach to deliver measurable, sustainable value. For more information, visitwww.CLXLogistics.com.

About Kewill

Kewill is a global leader in multimodal transportation management software, providing organizations with a comprehensive end-to-end platform for managing the complexities of transportation, logistics and trade compliance. The Kewill MOVE® platform helps companies reduce costs, manage volatility and gain greater visibility across the logistics value chain and gives you the insight, agility and tools you need to deliver better customer service and streamline global supply chain execution for strategic advantage. The Kewill platform supports supply chain execution activities for over 7,500 companies in more than 100 countries. For more information, visit www.kewill.com

LLamasoft, the global leader in supply chain design software solutions, and CLX Logistics, a global provider of comprehensive logistics management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, announced an agreement to offer European truckload, global ocean and global parcel data to LLamasoft customers for use in strategic supply chain design.

CLX Logistics has offered a dedicated transportation benchmark service for more than 10 years. During this time, the number of companies using the service has grown substantially. Today, the CLX Logistics Benchmark database contains in excess of EUR 4.1 billion contracted transportation expenditures (no spot market) with detailed data on a full range of global, pan-European and domestic routes and a variety of transport modes. CLX Logistics rate benchmarking service will now be available to LLamasoft customers through a referral agreement.

The partnership will provide LLamasoft customers with an additional resource from which to draw valuable global reference data for use in supply chain modeling.  “The growing number of companies participating in our benchmarking proves the added value that our accurate and reliable apple-to-apple comparison brings,” said Marc Huijgen, CLX Logistics European VP. “We have seen companies that considered their processes to be best-of-breed, saving double-digit percentages after deploying our benchmark data in their procurement strategy. Hence we are excited to team up with the leading supply chain design software company LLamasoft to jointly help both our clients make better supply chain decisions.”

“Making CLX rate benchmarking service available to our customers is part of our continuing effort to help fill in missing model data—thus removing one of the biggest obstacles to successful supply chain design initiatives,” said LLamasoft president and CEO Donald Hicks. “Highly sought-after European truckload data will enable a higher level of data accuracy in modeling to help support critical supply chain decision-making.”

For more information, contact Andrew Hamilton at ahamilton@clxlogistics.com.

CLX Logistics LLC was chosen as a Top 100 3PL Provider for 2014 by Inbound Logistics magazine for its fifth consecutive year. IL editors selected CLX Logistics from a pool of more than 300 companies based on the company’s diverse operational capabilities and experience to meet readers’ unique supply chain and logistics needs.

Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 3PL Provider’s list serves as a qualitative assessment of service providers that are best equipped to meet and surpass readers’ evolving outsourcing needs. Each year, Inbound Logistics editors select the best logistics solutions providers by carefully evaluating submitted information, conducting personal interviews and online research, and comparing that data to readers’ burgeoning global supply chain and logistics challenges.  The selected service providers, in the opinion of Inbound Logistics editors, offer the diverse operational capabilities and experience to meet readers’ unique supply chain and logistics needs.

“World-class logistics performance is crucial for companies of all sizes – from Fortune 500 to SMBs. Given the scope and scale of that challenge, IL editors recognize that CLX Logistics provides the kinds of solutions that companies large and small rely on to solve the tactical logistics issues of serving customers better, faster, and more efficiently,” explains Felecia Stratton, Editor, Inbound Logistics. “CLX Logistics is responsive and continues to anticipate evolving needs by also offering the strategic solutions required to drive business process improvement and change for customers. For those reasons, Inbound Logistics editors are proud to recognize CLX Logistics as one of our 2014 Top 100 3PLs.”

“This has been an exciting year for CLX Logistics as we united our subsidiaries under one parent company and expanded our mission to serve the transportation needs of clients in different vertical markets on a global basis,” notes Steve Hamilton, President & CEO of CLX Logistics.  “We are proud to be recognized by Inbound Logistics as a Top 100 3PL Service Provider for the fifth consecutive year as it serves as an affirmation to our ongoing dedication and support in addressing the supply chain needs of our growing customer base.”