October 12 - In order to serve the growing Latin American project market, BDP Project Logistics has opened an office in Mexico City.

Relocating from Germany to manage the new office is Roberto Lange, who previously served as project manager in the BDP Project Logistics office in Nuremberg. Mr Lange has also worked in various countries around the world in an operations capacity, handling a number of projects for the power, chemical and oil and gas industries.

As manager of business development for Mexico, Mr Lange will report to Luc Van Heygen, managing director of the Americas and Europe for BDP Project Logistics.

"Since Mexico is a key project market I am very excited to help BDP Project Logistics further its development in cooperation with the existing BDP team," said Mr Lange.

Luc Van Heygen, managing director, Americas & Europe, BDP Project Logistics. "We believe that with the support of BDP Mexico's management and the backing of the BDP Project Logistics global network, we will succeed in establishing the BDP Project Logistics brand name and expanding our business opportunities in Mexico and Latin America as a whole."

"The current situation in the market encourages business to be more competitive and offer a wider variety of services," said Mauricio Boy, president & CEO, BDP International México, S.A. de C.V. "When approached by BDP Project Logistics to establish an operation in Mexico, I immediately saw the value in expanding our business offering to current and future clients. We have been handling projects in cooperation with BDP Project Logistics for a few years now and are eager to expand this cooperation in collaboration with Roberto and all of BDP Project Logistics."