TNT Express opens regional security centre in Singapore

TNT Express opened a new regional security command centre in Singapore on Monday, improving security in its ground and air transportation within Southeast Asia. The new facility located at the company’s Changi South Lane complex will monitor trucks and goods moving on TNT’s Asia Road Network, which connects Singapore to Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and China, as well as linking up with TNT’s air network.

TNT uses GPS technology and CCTV cameras to track its vehicles and improve operations including loading and unloading, it said.

The company said it would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with direct communication links to customs authorities and the police in the countries served by the network.

Singapore’s finance and transport minister Josephine Teo was on hand to open the new facility, which she said would provide a “major nerve centre” for TNT’s operations in the Asia Pacific region.

The minister said TNT’s decision to locate its centre in Singapore was a “vote of confidence” in her country’s status as a “secure and trusted hub” for logistics, and its commitment to the logistics company’s expansion in the region.

“The security centre further strengthens Singapore’s role as a viable multi-modeal transport hub,” she said, “connecting TNT’s Asia Road Network with its air network. This provides flexibility and a wider choice for customers to better suit their cost and time requirements. I am certain that TNT customers will benefit from the synergy that this centre brings.”