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Twinings renews contract with TNT Network Logistics

Posted by | Nov 9, 2004 | |

Twinings has renewed its contract with TNT Network Logistics until the end of 2006. The two companies have been working together since 1990. TNT Network Logistics manages a supply chain solution including the annual storage and distribution of more than eleven million cases of tea, Options and Ovaltine to major supermarkets and wholesalers as well as to food service customers, including restaurants. “We are pleased to have renewed our contract with TNT for a further two years. As our business and customer needs are forever changing we need a third party logistics partner that can meet these requirements at all times and work with us to continuously improve our supply chain,” said Jim Crook, Distribution and Stock Controller, Twinings.

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FedEx Ground selects Atlanta-area site for new southern distribution facility

Posted by | Nov 9, 2004 | |

FedEx Ground, the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx Corp, has chosen a 75-acre site in Kennesaw, Ga., as the location for a new 247,000 square-foot automated distribution facility to be opened by summer 2006. The new facility, which will replace the current FedEx Ground terminal in Marietta, is part of the company’s USD1.8 billion network expansion plan. Announced in September 2002, the network investment includes the construction of nine new hubs, the expansion of 30 existing hubs and the relocation of nearly 290 pickup and delivery terminals. In response to increasing customer demand, the nationwide expansion will nearly double the company’s average daily hub volume package capacity to 5.3 million packages by the end of fiscal year 2010. Four new hubs currently under construction in the metro areas of Cincinnati, Dallas, Memphis and Hagerstown, Md., are scheduled to open in 2005 and 2006.

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Leipzig/Halle is favoured option for central DHL hub

Posted by | Nov 9, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net intends to extend the Airport Leipzig/Halle into the central European hub of its express and logistics subsidiary DHL. Plans for a move to the alternative location Vatry, France, are not pursued any further at present. As no political consensus on an extension could be achieved in Belgium, it is intended to maintain Brussels as a regional hub from 2008 onwards. Until then, DHL plans to keep activities running at the current scale at Brussels Airport. Following the successful finalization of all negotiations and preparations, start of operations in Leipzig could be realized at the beginning of 2008. The Group plans to invest around 300 million euros in the new site and to create around 3,500 jobs by 2012. “This is a location that would pave the way for the necessary growth of DHL in the future and provides the Group with long-term planning security”, says Dr Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post World Net.

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An Post to ballot on strike action

Posted by | Nov 9, 2004 | |

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is to ballot An Post employees for industrial action as the row over pay and conditions continues. A double ballot will take place over the next two weeks, in a move which could lead to disruption of the postal service in the run-up to Christmas. An Post reacted angrily to the move last night, claiming it was disappointed and the ballots would only cause further delays. A spokesman also took serious issue with the “implied threat” to Christmas services. The CWU decided on the ballot following a meeting of its executive yesterday. One ballot is to ask members to consider a pay offer of 5.35 per cent over four years, which An Post made to collection and delivery staff in talks with the Labour Relations Commission last week. The second ballot is to seek a renewed mandate for industrial action, if it is deemed necessary to protect existing agreements.

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La Poste Annual Report 2003

Posted by | Nov 9, 2004 | |

La Poste Annual Report 2003
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LG renews contract with TNT Logistics in Italy

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

LG Electronics, the Korean electronics giant has signed a renewal contract with TNT Logistics in Italy. TNT Logistics will continue for another three years to act as the sole logistics provider in Italy for LG. The activities include the operations of goods receiving, handling and storage, order preparation, dispatch and returns management for the entire range of products marketed by LG Electronics, which are high value products such as white goods (refrigerators and washers), TV sets, PC’s, laptops, LC screens and cell phones, throughout Italy. Since 2000 TNT Logistics Italy has been the sole logistics partner of LG Electronics Italia.

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TNT Global Express will be offered at Norway post offices

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

TNT Global Express offers private customers and small businesses in Norway a new and faster alternative for express delivery of parcels to recipients abroad. The service will be available from 8 November at more than 300 post offices throughout the country. “In cooperation with TNT we have developed a better express product for our customers, in order to satisfy the increasing market demand for faster distribution of parcels abroad” says Arne Bjørndal, Senior Vice President, Norway Post. ’TNT Global Express kontant’ offers private customers and small businesses faster delivery of parcels to recipients abroad. Both documents and goods can be sent as express parcels. The maximum weight of ‘TNT Global Express kontant’ is 30 kilos per item.

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FedEx will raise US rates by 4.6%

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

FedEx Corp has announced plans to charge higher rates for air and ground shipments, indicating a change in the company’s method for passing along high fuel expenses to clients and strong demand in the freight market. The cost of an average air shipment in the US through FedEx will go up by 4.6% on January 3. Earlier this year, the company raised rates by 2.5% for the same items.

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