On March 27th 2009, Ms Patricia Ondra who heads are traffic deptartment will be celebrating her 25th year of service to Mersant. She has been a longtime leader in the import/export field and because of her complete dedication to Mersant and its affiliates it has earned her a wonderful reputation. Thank you Pat for your loyalty and hard work throughout the years.

In January 2008 Mr. Paul Weygand is celebrating his 25 years of loyal service and dedication to Mersant Intl.

In May 2008 Mr. Mark Stern is also celebrating his 25 years with Mersant. Mr. Stern heads up our Los Angeles area office. Congratulations Mark and many thanks for all your hard work and dedication to our firm.

In October 2008, Mrs. Eileen Zahariou is celebrating her 25th year of service to Mersant.

Eileen has worked in the livestock dept since 1983. We are so fortunate to be able to have someone so wonderful as well as loyal and hard working. Her reputation in the global equine industry is second to none. We are so pleased to be able to call her a member of the Mersant Family.

In May 2009 the AATA is having there 35th International conference held in Sydney, Australia, Mersant is once again pleased and fortunate to be a long standing member of the AATA. Good luck at this years conference

Our relationship with British Airways Cargo in Atlanta, Georgia continues to expand and grow, for the sixth consecutive year Mersant has transported the largest amount of horses from North America to the United Kingdom.

In January 2008 Mersant transported the thoroughbred breeding stallion named Banker's Gold to Cyprus to stand stud.

It's the start of the international carnival racing season in Dubai, UAE and Mersant transported via Singapore Airlines from Chicago Holding Court and Gun Salute to compete from the USA. Good luck to both trainers.

World-renowned Polish arabian breeding stallion Laheeb is shipping back to Poland after standing stud in California in early February 2008

For the past two years Mersant International exclusively has been in partnership with Emirates Airlines in handling their small pet cargo clients for work relocations of USA residents with there dogs and cats to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.

Mersant is importing more and more dutch warmblood's from Holland as well as horses from Germany, Belguim, Austria and Poland.

The 2008 AATA 34th International conference is being held from May 18th through the 21st in Dresden, Germany. Mersant has been a long time contributor and avid supporter of the AATA.

We have been the first USA based equine transportion company that has been able to ship horses directly from the United States to Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Horses continue to be transported to the Far East/South East Asia in large numbers originating from the United States especially to the Philippines. We are delighted to be a small part of the success in racing and the development of the equine industry in Manila.

Mersant has established relations in Doha, Qatar in relocating employees and families with their pets from the USA inconjunction with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the Qatar pet relocators.

We are importing more and more horses into Miami from Germany and The Netherlands as the winter show circuit heats up in Palm Beach and Wellington, Florida.

Mersant is gearing up our yearly shipment of horses being sent to the U.K. to be sold at public auction at the famous Tattersalls Park Paddocks in Newmarket, Suffolk England.

Mersant is pleased to be transporting 2 horses from Los Angeles, California to Tokyo, Japan on Japan Airlines.

Mersant shipped another well known stallion and his two young sons from Poland to Los Angeles in June 2008. We are pleased to report the horses are resting comfortably in there new home in Brentwood, CA.

Mersant recently transported a Somali Wild Ass from Europe to the United States.

We continue to transport horses to and from Lexington, Kentucky and Dublin, Ireland at record paces. The Irish thoroughbed community has performed at high levels for many years now and we are happy to be a small part of there success.

Mersant is pleased to annouce that we were the first US Based equine shipping company to transport 3 horses on British Airways Cargo from Houston Intl to Stansted, England in July 2008

Mersant is shipping some very well know USET driving teams to Europe from NYC this summer to compete in Aachen, Germany. Good luck to all our teams.

In Sept 2008 Mersant continues to import Horses from the National Stud farms in Poland. We have imported more mares into LAX via KLM.

We are so excited to be able to import in September 2008 from Africa, Eagles, Storks, as well as Spoonbills and Hornbills (Birds).

Currently, Mersant is in the process of importing Vultures from Tanzania as well.

Another NFL season is upon us and once again we are involved with the NFL game tapes on a weekly basis for transport and broadcast in Japan.

Our pet relocating business is growing by leaps and bounds, We are proud to announce Mersant's partnership with our affiliated agents at the following airports in the USA: JFK/LGA/EWR, SFO, IAH, ATL,ORD, MIA,LAX

Thanks to Cargo Lux Airlines Mersant Intl was involved in Oct 2008 with there first shipment of horses to Doha, Qatar from JFK NY.

Mersant is also in the process of shipping horses to Khartoum, Sudan. This is a first as well for our company.

We are also very excited to be involved with shipping horses to Tripoli, Lybia.

We have even expanded our global presence with shipping horses into Astana, Kazakhstan

Mersant's LAX office has been hard at work transporting dogs and cats to The United Arab Emirates via Emirates Cargo.