NOL renews communications infrastructure agreement with Orange 
ConvergenceAsia staff
02/09/2009

Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), a world-leading global container shipping, terminals and logistics group, has renewed a five-year, US$38 million communications infrastructure agreement with Orange Business Services, a leading global integrator of communications solutions.

“To manage a global business of the size and complexity of the NOL Group, we need an extensive, secure and reliable communications infrastructure, which also helps us deliver greater operational efficiency and cost savings,” said Choy Peng Wu, Group Chief Information Officer of NOL.

Orange Business Services will be responsible for NOL’s global communications infrastructure entirely from design and implementation to management. The MPLS-based IP VPN communications infrastructure is critical to the smooth running of NOL’s complex international container shipping logistics and terminal management services.

NOL will leverage innovative technologies and services, including managed IP Telephony, advanced messaging and unified communications solutions, for greater business collaboration and efficiency across its operations that currently span more than 400 locations in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

With Orange, NOL is able to reduce the number of global suppliers and simplify operational support with cost-effective communications, said Yee-May Leong, senior vice president Asia Pacific, Orange Business Services.

As part of its continuous IT and telephony transformation, NOL will also replace existing older PBX equipment with IP telephony.

Orange Business Services started its relationship with NOL’s container shipping subsidiary APL in 2001 by providing managed network services for their international WAN. Since then, Orange has significantly expanded its relationship with APL-NOL.

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