{"id":4525,"date":"2011-11-22T09:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T09:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/?p=739"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:21:47","slug":"marcopololine-4th-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/marcopololine-4th-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"MarcoPoloLine 4th Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As co-founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcopololine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MarcoPoloLine<\/a> (MPL), Mercator Cargo Systems Ltd attended the fourth MPL annual conference in Sicily from 14<sup>th <\/sup>until 18<sup>th<\/sup> October 2011. Mercator was represented at the event by Paul, CEO; and James, Sales Executive.<\/p>\n<p>Over 130 people representing 84 freight forwarding companies from 53 countries attended the event at the Etna Golf Resort hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PAUL-Speaking-1024x679.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PAUL-Speaking-1024x679.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PAUL-Speaking-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PAUL-Speaking-768x510.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PAUL-Speaking.webp 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were two full days of face-to-face meetings, one day playing golf and the last day was celebrated with a trip to the summit of Mount Etna followed by a party in the evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis was a great opportunity to meet new business partners and cement relationships with established contacts\u201d said Paul Goehlert, director of Mercator.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a great family feeling amongst the members of MPL; we do business together, play golf together, eat together and have fun together\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The MPL conference has become an established part of Mercator\u2019s calendar and is a great opportunity to discuss anything from sales strategies to financial and operational matters. \u00a0Paul commented \u201cWe had the opportunity to meet partners from all over the world, so when one of our clients has a logistics issue almost anywhere in the world, we have a personal contact we can call on for local knowledge and help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"MPL Cake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MPL-Cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MPL is a global association of small to medium sized freight forwarders committed to personal attention and professional customer service.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Request a Quote for Shipping to Italy<\/h3>\n\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"widget\" data-elementor-id=\"163\" class=\"elementor elementor-163\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-163 elementor-button-align-stretch elementor-widget elementor-widget-form\" data-id=\"163\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;button_width&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;step_next_label&quot;:&quot;Next&quot;,&quot;step_previous_label&quot;:&quot;Previous&quot;,&quot;step_type&quot;:&quot;number_text&quot;,&quot;step_icon_shape&quot;:&quot;circle&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"form.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<form class=\"elementor-form\" method=\"post\" name=\"Contact Form\" aria-label=\"Contact Form\">\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"post_id\" value=\"163\"\/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"form_id\" value=\"163\"\/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"referer_title\" value=\"LCL China to UK - 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Mercator was represented at the event by Paul, CEO; and James, Sales Executive. Over 130 people representing 84 freight forwarding companies from 53 countries attended the event at the Etna Golf Resort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-forwarder-experience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mercatorcargo.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}