Mitsui OSK Lines has announced that Burlington Coat Factory, a major US retailer of apparel and family furniture, which operates more than 390 stores nationwide, has selected Hong Kong-based MOL Consolidation Service Ltd as their logistics partner and consolidator/forwarder to the whole Asia region including China, Vietnam, India and Pakistan. 
The move is intended to streamline the company’s import logistics from origins to their final distribution centres within the US.
 Burlington Coat Factory is implementing this programme in support of a plan to expand its number of stores in the US.
“MOL Consolidation Service Ltd has been selected for its favoured ability in cargo management with a strong management team, superior IT tracking and EDI services by “Starlink” as well as various support of value-added services such as origin cargo inspection, barcode labeling, scanning, etc,” a statement said.
 Curtis W. LeRoy, director of supply chain administration at Burlington, stated: “MOL Consolidation Service has the right people, the right technology, and the right corporate attitude to service a multi-divisional retailing operation like ours. We are very pleased with our selection.”
MOL is one of the world’s largest multi-modal transport companies, operating more than 800 vessels and employing a workforce in excess of 8,600 worldwide. MOL operates one of the largest and most diverse networks of liner and logistics services around the globe, including weekly Transpacific, Transatlantic, Americas and Asia-Europe services.