PULK – Experience in The AMERICAS:

North America, Central America – including the Caribbean, and South America are well traveled by Mr. Pulk.

Starting in the early 70s, he began his work travels to South America – Argentina, Brasil, and Chile (the “ABC-countries”) and later Peru and Venezuela; these countries were high on visitation and work requirements’ list due to the increase in economic development opportunities presented to the forwarding companies and requirement for logistics support.

During his working career, Mr. Pulk has visited and worked in ALL countries in South America, (exceptions being Guayana and French Guiana), most of Central America and much of the Caribbean, and in North America - ALL the states of the USA, the provinces of Canada, and many major and minor  cities in Mexico.

He has spent considerable time in Brasil, wherein he has relatives located in Sao Paulo and Manuas.  Estimates range from 75-100 separate trips to Brasil over the years, with an aggregate time spent in all Latin America in excess of 1-1/2 years.  He has worked on numerous projects in these countries, herein listed by example, and are not meant to be all inclusive.

PULK’s direct involvement and supervision included:

·              Brasil: Itaipu Dam project (largest dam in the world with capacity of 12 MegaWatts), construction began in the mid-70s and completed almost 10-years later, required the transport of construction equipment and materials to site on the Parana River, Brasil/Paraguay; 10kms from the Argentina border – primary sourcing of equipment was USA and movement “via Brasil” ports and airports in Sao Paulo state.

·              Paraguay: Foz do Iguacu’s main airport is actually located in Brasil territory, and movement of cargo is performed ”in bond” to the FTZ-site and city of the same name (later renamed in the early 80s as Porto Presidente Stroesner after Paraguay’s ruler), wherein Pulk operated regular air charter flights of commercial (primarily retail and consumer goods) cargo.

·             Peru: Supported multiple RTZ (Rio Tinto Zinc Mining) mine sites and operations in that country for global M.R.O. sourcing.

·            Brasil: In the mid-to-late 70s, as Regional Manager of Circle (based Detroit), and assigned responsibilities inclusive of that Company’s operations in South America… planned and executed movement of components for launch of new production line of (computer) printers for Burroughs Corporation, (later merged with Sperry-Rand, and renamed UNISYS Corporation) with P&A originating from global sourcing, warehoused and inventoried in Detroit, and moved via air common carriage, sea freight, and air charter to support new plant built in Santo Amaro, SP, Brasil.  During the 3-year life of the project Circle handled in excess of 1,000 TEUs via surface freight, and >2,000,000 kilograms via airfreight.  Later – supported the M.R.O. requirements for the same plant as SVP of AEI – Air Express International with sourcing from Detroit, Toledo, and Dallas – as well as Tokyo, Japan.

·             USA & Canada: Involved on the periphery in support of initial E&P for the OILCO’s site surveys for what was to be named the North Slope Project in Alaska, and prior to the construction of the Aleyeska Pipeline.  Movement via varied chartered aircraft and mission requirements in remote locations and difficult environments included L100-30Fs, B727Fs, and CL-44Ds, which became somewhat commonplace in the late 60s and early 70s.

·             Chile: Involved in the Phase I / E&C in the 70s of the Escondido Project for the operator, GE/Utah International, later acquired by BHP-Billiton in the early 80s, and later involved in the handling global M.R.O. sourcing for support of the mine site.

·             Mexico: For major USA-based companies, and prior to the NAFTA agreements, Mr. Pulk was involved in various projects’ logistics support for: Xerox, Sears Roebuck & Company, Texas Instruments, Gillette, and others – including the nascent oil & gas E&P by PEMEX in the 70s and 80s… and was required to travel the USA/MX-border locations, (i.e.; Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, etc.) in order to provide for road transport obligations.

·              Venezuela: The Intertrans’ affiliate, STAIR Cargo Services was acquired in 1990 through the personal efforts and relationships of Mr. Pulk.  STAIR’s major strength lay in Venezuela, and the major client in that country was PDVSA, the Venezuelan National Oil Company, wherein Stair Cargo was the preferred global vendor.  Logistics involved ship charters and regular air charters to remote E&P sites in the interior of Venezuela to support drilling and production operations.  In the year 1994, over 50 air charters – primarily B707F, B727F and DC-8F equipment were flown from centers in Europe, USA, and Far East to support PDVSA’s operational requirements.  To support ongoing operations, “pipe vessel” charters with materials sourced from Brasil and Argentina, as well as regular breakbulk vessel requirements for M.R.O. refinery and production locations were required.

·             Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay, and Peru:  Provided secure logistics support and operational movement of U.S. Department of State (DS/DT) construction materials transported via AIR to the locations of new Embassies (including facility upgrades), and in support of air movement of classified or secure materials required by E&C contractors materials (i.e.; Dillingham, Greenway, etc.), and the related agencies.  Regular air shipments “Class A pouch” were moved on air charter aircraft contracted by Pulk at both Circle and Intertrans, (eg. B707F, L-100-30F, and B757Fs) in the course of operational requirements

·              Latin America operations of Circle Air Freight (The Harper Group):  From the initial development era in the early 70s, onward until leaving the Company in Q3/2001, Mr. Pulk opened all the offices for that Company in the market, and had direct COO-oversight responsibilities for the Corporation – opening subsidiary company locations in Brasil and elsewhere in LAM to meet product/service demand.

·             Latin America operations of AEI: Mr. Pulk was directly responsible for opening and directing the management of the Brasilian operations of the Company in 1982, until leaving to join Intertrans on December 31, 1983.

·              Latin America operations of Intertrans/Stair Cargo: As SVP of Intertrans from 1984-onward, and later incorporated within the structure of the acquisition of Stair Cargo Services in 1990, Mr. Pulk had direct oversight for sales, and co-managed combined STAIR/INTERTRANS’ locations throughout Latin America (multiple owned offices in Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela; agents in other locations – combined work force of +300 employees of which 100+ were situated in 7-Intetrans’ Brasilian locations) and further in the MIAMI location of +150 employees for STAIR Cargo.

·             Brasil: CAEMI e JARI (the JARI project located in Amapa state in northern Brasil) – (see separate CASE STUDY in experience profiles).

·             Mexico: In the late-70s, air cargo movements from the USA-to-Mexico, D.F. (the capital), limited by restrictions at the international airport (buried in the heart of a city of 10MM people), was a dangerous time indeed.  Multiple air crashes of overloaded aircraft operating from the high density-altitude airport were all too common, and Mexican customs methods had “a way of providing for regular operating delays”, making the airfreight movement from LAX-MEX subject to 10-days transit!  Mr. Pulk provided Circle with an alternative operation which was used intermittently for several years, prior to a new airport being built in Toluca, MX; solution - movement via air charter to Vera Cruz, and truck across the mountains making the LAX-MEX transit of 4-days, saving almost a week in the “cycle time of materials inventory requirement”.

·             Brasil: XEROX – as SVP of Circle Freight he was originator, and designed a solution with implementation of requirements for logistics support of Xerox’s 1^st manufacturing location in South America – Resende, RJ state in the late-80s.  Requirement included movement of components - “parts and pieces to the assembly line” from Rochester, NY site inclusive of 25x B747Fs air charters executed through Pan American World Airways Cargo to Sao Paulo’s Viracopos airport in the years 1978-80, as well as commercial flight and sea freight requirements for materials originating in Japan (Fuji-Xerox) and Europe (Rank-Xerox).

·             Brasil: XEROX – as SVP of Intertrans in the 80s, Mr. Pulk was the originator in designing a solution for logistics support of Xerox Latin America Group’s planned and then built on a site in the FTZ of Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil.  During the early 90s, it was not uncommon to support requirements primarily via airfreight, and in 1993, Xerox was a major client included in Intertrans/Star’s 2X per week air cargo charter service operated with B707F aircraft between Miami and Manaus.

·             Brasil: GILLETTE – supported regular freight requirements to the Rio de Janeiro plant beginning the mid-70s; later provided air and sea freight support to the new manufacturing location in the FTZ-Manaus, and expanded in the late-80s and early-90s to become the largest Gillette manufacturing site outside of the USA.  Airfreight included movement of full production lines, equipment and spares from multiple origins in Scotland, England, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Germany, etc. – inclusive of 2x B747Fs chartered through VARIG Airlines.

·             Argentina, Brasil, Venezuela: Supported logistics requirements of Ford Motor Company (USA/Canada), parts supply and manufacturing operations to those countries – multiple plant locations, via airfreight mode (including air charters) of transport.  Similarly – handled Chrysler Corporation’s requirements to Argentina and Brasil – STAIR handled Venezuela during the 70s and early 80s, prior to the sale of CHRYSLER foreign operations in LAM to VW and/or Peugeot. Again – similar support was provided to General Motors Diesel Allison Division (DDAD) locations in Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brasil from USA/CDA sources.

·             Brasil: Supported the Phase I / E&C in the 70s for Samarco Mineracao Project, a unit of GE/Utah International; later in the 80s supported global M.R.O. sourcing for mine and mill locations in the states of Minas Gerais and port facilities in Espirito Santo.

·             Brasil and all South America: Regular airfreight charter requirements and operations were weekly occurrences during the 80s and 90s utilizing B707F, DC8F, and B747F equipment on non-scheduled operations, which soon became regular table fare.  Operators utilized included Pan American World Airways, Varig-Brasilian Airlines, TransBrasil Airlines, Millon Air Airlines, Arrow Air, and others on assignment… for usual flight operations by/between the USA, usually Miami or New York-origin to Manaus, Sao Paulo, Salvador da Bahia, Caracas-Maiquetia, Cali, Lima, Buenos Aires, and Santiago.  It was not uncommon for PULK and staff to start the morning routine in Miami at 06:00, take-off to Manaus, land/offload/reload/refuel, and return that evening for dinner in the USA!

·             Peru: In the late-80s provided for secure air movement of radar and security installations to that country’s primary international airport (Jorge Chavez); materials sourced in USA and France, and flown on B747-200CFs under armed escort, and delivered to sites in and bear the capital of Lima.

The above list is meant as a sampling of industry experience and issues requiring a unique solution to the challenges presented… and are not set in any specific order of reference, date, and/or preference.  Further details may be provided upon request.

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