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Dear Team,

Thank you. It’s been a wonderful year working with you. We’ve achieved great milestones; we’ve opened new offices, tendered for a number of big companies, welcomed new team members, run successful campaigns, increased awareness of our brand both internally and externally, increased air freight and business in China. Without each of you doing your part, we wouldn’t have achieved these milestones - on behalf of the Partners , you all need to be congratulated.

2013 will bring a range of new initiatives - a new website, an internal library of sales tools, social media campaigning, new offices and a host of advertising and PR commitments that will position us as a company that can certainly cater to logistics needs across the entire supply chain.

The Partners and I take this opportunity to wish each of you and your families a safe, healthy and happy Christmas and holiday period and we look forward to working with each of you in the New Year.

Be safe, George & the Partners

Deck the Halls


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Or off it as the case may be, so we can ship it to

underprivileged communities!

Bikes4Life gets local communities together to work on cleaning and

repairing bikes and has done since that moment a young boy from

a tribe in Uganda begged founder, Ebony Butler, for a bicycle for

Christmas.

Ebony’s sentiment in response was “Why send just one bike, when

we could ship a whole container load of bikes?”.

An interview on ‘The Project’ between Dave Hughes and Ebony

Butler one night revealed that Bikes4Life had 500 bikes ready to be

shipped to Northern Uganda in one month’s time.

The 500 bikes were primarily going to expectant mothers to bring

clean water to their families, a 50km journey from some dwellings.

The closest medical amenities in this region are 2 hours away by

foot and some of Bikes4Life’s donated bikes were custom-made

with trolleys to aid the ill to hospitals and doctors.

ENTER VISA GLOBAL LOGISTICS

VISA Global Logistics contacted Bikes4Life regarding the logistics

side of this project to find knowledge and a budget surrounding

were lacking.

The Directors were more than supportive in this instance – “Let’s do

it!”, they said. VISA Global Logistics was involved.

JRT Transport arranged for the delivery of an empty container to

the Bikes4Life warehouse, Port Melbourne. The true efforts, huge

participation and philanthropy shown that day with volunteers

packing the bikes into the container was admirable and absolute.

Everyone involved in the collection of bikes and repair works

spanning a 2 year period was in attendance. The container was

brought back to VISA Global Logistics, Yarraville, and was ‘dressed’

with sponsor details – main sponsor VISA Global Logistics, Expat

Deli, JRT, Man With A Van and Cotton On Foundation – and it was

‘tagged’ by a graffiti artist.

The container was off to the Port of Melbourne Authority and onto

the Maersk Line, where the container was filmed being lifted onto

the ship. The Captain of the ship also gave his assurance that the

container would arrive at destination safely.

It’s an astounding achievement that this 40’ container with 500

bikes began its journey from Melbourne, reached Tanjung Palapas,

was discharged in Mombasa (Kenya), trucked inland 3,000kms

through Nairobi (the world’s most notorious land of corruption)

into Kampala in Northern Uganda where the bikes were distributed

by Ebony and the Bikes4Life team. The bikes were definitely well

received!

Following the journey, the empty container was converted to a

bicycle workshop attracting youth from various regions, giving

them the opportunity to learn about and repair bikes, applying

themselves in a positive way.

On Ya Bike!


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Events

WHAT’S NEXT?

Bikes4Life volunteers in Sydney have repaired 400 bikes to be shipped to Uganda at Christmas time.

This will be the second container shipped to Uganda by VISA Global Logistics. Bikes are going to young victims of

war and communities who have lived through over 2 decades of insurgency.

The container will be decked out to become a bicycle workshop for former child soldiers in Northern Uganda.

WANT TO GET INVOLVED?

Get down to 171 Gibbes Street, Chatswood, on 23.12.12 to help pack the bikes into the container.

Bikes4Life Volunteers. Bikes being put to good use - Uganda


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VGL gets Social WE’RE ACTIVE!!

VISA Global Logistics is active on Facebook and Twitter, using

the platform as an instrumental tool to communicate relevant

updates to the public, increase awareness of VGL and push our

social/corporate responsibility.

By now each of you should have read, signed and returned the

Company Social Media Policy. If you would like a copy of the

Policy, please speak with Ed.

Everyone needs to get involved. If you haven’t already, please:

1. ‘Like” Visa’s Facebook page at

www.facebook.com/visagloballogistics

2. Regularly ‘like’ posts on the wall

3. Comment from time to time on images and statuses

4. Invite your friends to ‘like’ the VGL Facebook page

5. Follow us on Twitter @visagloballog

6. Retweet, comment and favourite tweets

If you’d like to see specific material on the VGL social media

platform, email Louiza Clancy [email protected]. Material

will go through an approval process before anything is posted.

Thank you for your cooperation.

An International Appearance

Roberto touched down in Sydney this month from HK. Here he is with George.

Mario Andreaechio, Sir Viv Richards (World cricketer) and Daniel Weatherdon

Mario Star Spotting


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Years of Service Staff

Tricia La Sala celebrates 5 years!

Raffaele Sellaro celebrates 10 years!

Matt Kerry celebrates 10 years!

Tina Lygdas celebrates 10 years!

Simon Orrico celebrates 10 years!

Victoria Johnson celebrates 10 years!

Richard Hammond celebrates 10 years!

Melanie Savona celebrates 5 years!

Paul Midson celebrates 5 years!

Bradley Butt celebrates 5 years!

Harry Azzopardi celebrates 5 years!

Congratulations to our team members who have reached the 5 and 10 yearmilestone with VGL!

Marcus, Nicole, Eskil, Mark, Sascha, Seamew, Shohre

VISA OneTrack Academy (V1TA)The V1TA is an internal program designed to improve knowledge about OneTrack within each department and consequently the “entire branch”, making sure all the departments are aware of the use and scope of our unique supply chain information system.

Forums will provide the opportunity to exchange ideas, learn new techniques, broaden experience, gain knowledge and take ownership for development of the system.

To find out more about V1TA, speak with Lucas Gatt,

[email protected]

The OneTrack TeamVISA Global Logistics’s custom-built, online freight management platform, VISA OneTrack, is unrivalled globally for creation and tracking of shipping documents and visibility of container movement. We have an in-house team of software developers working tirelessly on the industry-leading software platform. We have a proven ability to customise software and match processes to customer requirements. We can develop tailored reporting solutions for our customers. We can provide custom interfacing with any customer software system. If you have any questions about OneTrack’s capabilities or functionality, drop Marcus an email [email protected]


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MelbourneMelbourne CupWith the race that stopped the nation on the 6th November,

VGL’s Melbourne contingent celebrated with a pizza lunch, best

dressed competition, prizes and mystery bets.

Best Dressed was taken out by Ocean and Matija while Tricia took

out Best Head Piece. The ‘Princess of the Day Award’ went to

Ayden.

In the $2.00 sweep, Penny placed first with Green Moon (winning

$28), Tim came second with Fiorente (winning $12), Harry cam

third with Jakkalberry (winning $6) and Matija came in fourth

with Ethiopia (winning $2).

The $5 sweep saw Penny pick up $70 with Green Moon, Frank

win $30 with Fiorente, Shez pick up $15 with Jakkalberry and

Maria pick up $5 with Ethiopia.

Special thanks to the Social Club for a day well organised!

Halloween Darkness Falls Across The Land

The Midnight Hour Is Close At Hand

Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood

To Terrorise Your Neighbourhood

With prizes for this year’s Halloween best

dressed, things got a little scary…

Weddings

Armina made a beautiful bride as she tied the

knot on Friday 19/11/2012 at the Mosque in Deer

Park, celbrating a reception at The Manor.


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Melbourne cont....

Movember The ‘Mo Bros’ did their part for raising men’s health

awareness and funds for prostate cancer when

they grew their mos this November.

With ridicule, pain and itch, they stuck it out

through thick and thin in trimming.

They say its

coincidence but we

believe it’s planned.

Tell us what you think

about the office twins,

JP and Frank.

Magic Moment

Chico, Dirty Mexican, Imposter, 70’s porn star (you can work out who’s who).

BARRY THE CAT!!Meet Barry the Cat, an undesirable omen that

appears on the desks of those who slip, bringing

embarrassment and dishonour.

He’s been in the lives of Footscray’s I.T. office for

the last couple of years, only becoming known to

the rest of the team in the last few weeks - as an

entrant in weekly raffles to benefit his I.T. team.

Celebrating a country of fresh produce and

multiculturalism, Melbourne ditched home lunches

for an office “International Food Day”. Each staff

member brought in a plate of food to represent a

country and lunch was held in the boardroom. It

was a great initiative to get together, eat well and

put on a couple of kilograms.

Flavours of the World


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Our very own Stallone Director Vittorio Tarchi made a special appearance at Perth’s 2012

Christmas Party, congratulating Raff “Hollywood” Sellaro on 10

years of service. Why “Hollywood“? Raff is larger than life - our very

own moviestar

Take 1: Vic and Raff pose for the camera

The Road to Nowhere Perth Pioneers, Raff & Shannon, have completed their first North

West trip, visiting the port authority & various prospective &

current clients.

Perth

Perth welcomes a new prime mover to their complete fleet of 6 now!

The Perth Fleet

Toni Shimmin joined the VGL team on 12th November in Perth as Client Service/Sales Support

Welcome to the Family

Jennie Williams (Perth Customs Broker) has been appointed as President for Western Australia CBFCA. Congratulations Jen!!!

Yes, Mrs President!


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Sydney

Australia’s Tidbinbilla, located 35km southwest of Canberra,

accompanies Madrid and California as the third site on planet

Earth to host a 34m space antenna, known as DS34. The site,

also home to Deep Space Station 35, is building the satellite to

generate uninterrupted communication to space, interplanetary

space probes, satellites and even the Mars Rover. It helps to form

an international network of antennas, each approximately 120

degrees apart, that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions

and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration

of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports

selected Earth-orbiting missions.

Strategic placement permits constant observation of spacecraft as

the Earth rotates, and helps to make the DSN the largest and most

sensitive scientific telecommunications system in the world. Over

the next 10-15 years, the planets will align in such a way that the

Southern Hemisphere will have the best overall view of the existing

spacecraft spread out across the Solar System.

One Small Step for VISA Global Logistics One Giant Leap for Mankind

VISA Global Logistics played an instrumental role in the

transportation of DS34, shipping a combination of 30 high cubes,

open tops, flat racks and bolsters over 18,000km via road, sea

and road from Spain to Tidbinbilla. The 2.5 year project can be

tracked here as a live feed monitors the progress of the satellite’s

construction http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/Antennas/dss35.html

Well done to the VISA Global Logistics team.

More information can be viewed here:

http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/index.html

Welcome to the Family

Sydney welcomes two new recruits this month as part of our

Sales Team. Louiza Clancy brings 3 years’ marketing experience

and 2 years in event management. Jessica Meyer brings 6 years’

experience in medical management. Welcome both!

Louiza Clancy and Jessica Meyer


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Sydney One Small Step for VISA Global Logistics continued ...


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Mel Griffiths makes a comeback

Brisbane

In With the Exporting! Brisbane has recently opened its new Export department and with it, we welcome

the newly developed Exporting team. With the cooperation of existing team

members and the return of employee Mel Griffiths, the team has been trained,

licensed and under Barbara Stewart’s guidance, are operational as of November

2012.

With current client export requirements and the gain of a new large export client,

the team has been tested with exports to weird and wonderful destinations

including Finland, Ghana, Armenia and Chile. Our sales team have also approached

a number of other new clients through which both Sea and Air volume will

increase in 2013, hopefully expanding this new team further.

Sydney cont...

Tina and John tied the knot!

Weddings

Sydney’s Kristen Parsons tied the knot on 27.10.12 to a very lucky Shayne. Carss Park put on a glorious Spring day for the duo – CONGRATULATIONS!


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InternationalWe’re in business!We’ve opened more new China offices - and we’re in business. Since opening, feedback has been great from both suppliers and VGL staff on the smooth transition and the calibre of the team.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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