Trucking News - Volvo Prime Movers still the preferred choice for Malaysian Railway's Multimodal Freight company

Mats Nilsson, Managing Director, Volvo Malaysia with YBhg. Dato’ Sr. Ahmad Zainuddin bin Jamaluddin, Director of Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd

Volvo Trucks recently delivered the final 14 units of the Volvo FM440 trucks from a total of 50 units to Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd.

Now the word 'multimodal' isn't just a made up word. It basically means the transportation yof goods under a single contract, but performed with at least two different means of transport; the transporter or carrier is liable for the entire carriage, even though it is performed by several different modes of transport like in this case, by prime mover trucks as well as by rail.

Concurrently at this event, Multimodal Freight also signed up for Volvo’s Gold Service Agreement for all 50 units of trucks for 5 years. The Agreement covers Preventive Maintenance (basic service including labour, filter and lubricant) and fair wear and tear.

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Volvo Prime Mover still the preferred choice for Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd

Volvo Trucks has delivered 50 units of FM 440 model to Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd in full and on time to meet the dynamic demand of its container haulage business

Shah Alam, XX April 2015 – Volvo Trucks today continued its success from another good performance last year when it successfully delivered the balanced 14 units of the Volvo FM440 trucks to Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd of the total 50 units purchased by Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd.

Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd has been in total logistic business for the last 25 years with vast capacity and capabilities to meet the transportation and shipping requirements of local and overseas customers. It has a broad range of services encompassing container haulage, container terminal operator, warehousing and freight forwarding, Multi Modal Transport Operator and Air Freighting. Multimodal Freight has operations at most major seaport such as Port Klang, Pasir Gudang, Butterworth, KLIA and Padang Besar Inland. Aside from this, it also acts as the depot operator for KTM Cargo for containerized railing business for Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd.

To signify and commemorate this occasion of full handing over of the 50 units of FM440, a simple ribbon cutting ceremony by YBhg. Dato’ Sr. Ahmad Zainuddin bin Jamaluddin on behalf of Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd was held in the presence of both senior management of Multimodal Freight and Volvo Trucks.

Concurrently at this event, Multimodal also signed up for Volvo’s Gold Service Agreement for all 50 units of trucks for 5 years. The Agreement covers Preventive Maintenance (basic service including labour, filter and lubricant) and fair wear and tear. Mats Nilsson, Managing Director of Volvo Malaysia and En. Mohd Hasdey Yaakob, Chief Executive Officer of Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd was the signatories of the Volvo’s Gold Service Agreement.

YBhg. Dato’ Sr. Ahmad Zainuddin bin Jamaluddin, Director of Multimodal Freight Sdn Bhd was pleased with this purchase of Volvo trucks “as reliable, timely and safe delivery of our customers’ goods is critical to our customers business. Thus, the 50 units of trucks we have purchased from Volvo will be for replacing old units to support our growing business especially container haulage.

He added that currently, Multimodal has about 200 prime movers in its fleet the majority are Volvo trucks.

Meanwhile, En Mohd Hasdey also added that the Company has been a long term customer of Volvo and its satisfaction over features like fuel efficiency, safety technology and quality built of the trucks and good aftermarket support were the factors that led to the Company’s decision to purchase Volvo trucks again.

Speaking at the event, Mats Nilsson said, “Multimodal is one of our long term and valued customers and this recent purchase of 50 trucks along with the Gold Service Agreement highlights a successful relationship premised upon our sustainable brand promise comprising quality products and strong aftermarket support. We are appreciative of the high level of satisfaction and trust Multimodal continues to give us.”

Volvo Trucks has 11 dealerships in Malaysia – five in Peninsular Malaysia and six in East Malaysia. For more information, please visit www.volvotrucks.com.my