Hays Logistique France has won a six year contract with retail group Sara Lee for the distribution of beauty, toiletry and household products. Annual traffic will represent the equivalent of 110,000 pallets from a dedicated 23,000 sq metre depot near Soissons. The company expects the contract to create around 50 new jobs.
Read MoreRoad freight is the dominant mode of transportation in Belgium, accounting for 91% of shipments. The proportion of shipments sent by road and sea freight only amount to 9%, while an insignificant amount is sent by rail. International road haulage is an important part of the sector.
Read MoreExel, the provider in supply chain management, issued a brief trading update today, ahead of the commencement of the close period preceding the Group’s interim results announcement on July 29, 2002.
Read MoreThe Geodis group has signed a major logistics agreement with IBM 5-year agreement includes the pre and postproduction logistics for the Dublin plant which manufactures IBM servers.
Read MoreWith an office in Auckland added to Maersk Logistics’ global network, the Danish company continues to expand.
Read MoreDeregulation in the area of express postal mail delivery will create a market worth more than 80 billion yen (US$329 million) within the 23 wards of Tokyo alone, a senior official at motorcycle courier service Sokuhai K.K. said Friday.
Read MoreMail Boxes Etc. (MBE), the world’s largest franchisor of retail postal, shipping and business services, today announced that it has expanded its network of franchised centers to 1,000 international and more than 3,500 in the United States. This milestone was reached with the opening of an MBE center in Berlin – the first in Germany.
Read MoreDeregulation in the area of express postal mail delivery will create a market worth more than 80 billion yen (US$329 million) within the 23 wards of Tokyo alone, a senior official at motorcycle courier service Sokuhai K.K. said Friday.
“When express delivery is opened to the private sector, this will give birth to a new market worth 80 billion yen in Tokyo’s 23 wards alone,” Masami Sakaki, managing director of Sokuhai, told a Liberal Democratic Party hearing.
As for the bill to allow the private sector’s entry into postal mail delivery now under Diet deliberation, Sakaki said he had no particular requests and did not ask for more drastic deregulatory steps.
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