Nightline and UK Pallets form strategic relationship
UK-based Nightline has strengthened its market share of freight to Ireland with the launch of a new strategic relationship with UK Pallets. The deal sees the company assuming responsibility for moving all Ireland-bound traffic on behalf of UK Pallets’ 80 member hauliers.
Nightline’s UK managing director, Geremy Ruffin, said the relationship with UK Pallets offered distinct advantages to both companies: “It amounts to an evolution of Nightline as a business because it increases the volume of freight traffic which we will be delivering into Ireland. However, it also provides UK Pallets and its members with guarantees of better service than had previously been available.
“Before, shipments from the UK to the Republic and Northern Ireland had to be split between two carriers. Our wholly-owned network of hubs across the island allows for a single solution, offering consistently good, transparent deliveries.”
Freight from across England, Wales and Scotland will be shipped to UK Pallets’ hub at Lichfield in Staffordshire before being taken by Nightline to Ireland via Holyhead. Deliveries are to be handled by Nightline’s seven Irish depots, overseen by the firm’s head office in Dublin.
UK Pallets’ commercial director, Graeme Wilson, said: “Not only do our members and their customers stand to benefit from even better service, they will be even more able to follow deliveries from the moment goods leave their premises to the point they arrive at their destinations.
“That means customers having greater confidence in their ability to run their businesses because of increased confidence in what we do.”
The deal is the latest agreement struck between Nightline and the UK Mail Group, of which UK Pallets is a subsidiary. The two companies already have a relationship in place covering the movement of parcels from the UK to Ireland.
