Bibby Distribution wins Budweiser contract
Bibby Distribution has won a new UK contract with Budweiser, extending a partnership that dates back 12 years. Bibby operates four sites on behalf of the brewer.
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Do milk this opportunity
The Postal Services Commission’s decision to grant Express Dairies an interim licence to deliver business mail to UK households could transform milkmen into postmen and offer a new route to market for the direct marketing industry. Comment by John Wigram, planning director of ARC Marketing and a former Unigate milkman.
Read MoreD Logistics sells handler to ease debt worries
Debt-laden German logistics group D Logistics last week sold its air cargo handling arm CSC to rival handler Swissport. The deal, including transfer of property at Heathrow, is understood to be worth slightly more than €100m.
Read MoreTechnology aids India postal system
For 138 years, India’s colonial-era postal network has had low-paid mail carriers and a creaky infrastructure.
Now, the government hopes that throguh creative marketing and wireless technology it will get the mail where it needs to be and on time.
On Monday, India’s postal service was thrown open for the first time to advertisements, giving private companies the chance to have their message splashed across mailboxes and postcards, even on mail carriers’ uniforms.
India has the world’s largest postal network, with 158,000 post offices and 525,000 mailboxes serving more than 1 billion people. Yet not much about its methods have changed since it was founded by the British in 1864 including the color of its red mailboxes. The government now wants to shake off that colonial legacy – beginning with the mailboxes, which can be painted in any color advertisers want.
Hays Logistics wins contract with Autoglass
Replacement windscreen specialist Autoglass has appointed Hays Logistics to manage the distribution of stock from its national distribution centre in a three-year, multi-million pound contract. Hays will make around 30,000 deliveries a year.
Read MoreDelivering Overseas Mail
On Aug. 8 The Post reprinted on the Federal Page a five-week-old story from the International Herald Tribune [July 4] about the U.S. Postal Service agreement with Consignia for the delivery of Global Express Mail and Global Air Parcel Post in Europe began in January. The agreement provides for an integrated network for delivery. It also introduced tracking capabilities for Air Parcels and improved tracking and tracing for Global Express Mail.
Read MoreFedEx and UPS hold fire on surcharge
Transport giant Federal Express will wait until Oct 1 before introducing an additional charge to cover an overtime fee imposed by the Customs Department.
However, its rivals DHL International (Thailand) and TNT Express Worldwide (Thailand) told their customers that they would introduce the surcharge starting yesterday.United Parcel Service (UPS) said it would wait for market reaction before deciding whether to continue absorbing the costs or find an alternative solution.
FedEx said that as a result of delaying the introduction of the surcharge it would have to absorb 30 million baht in additional costs.
The figure was based on a report prepared by the Conference of Asia Pacific Express Carriers (Capec), which claims that its members including FedEx, DHL, UPS and TNT have absorbed overtime costs amounting to one million baht each per day.
BearBox launches ‘intelligent‘ delivery network
BearBox is launching a national network of ‘intelligent delivery boxes‘ – the first of its kind in the world – in September 2002, enabling 24/7 delivery to engineers with real time notification of delivery and collection.
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