Tibbett & Britten wins contract with B&Q
Tibbett & Britten has won a contract to manage B&Qs new 46,000 sq metre import centre at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, extending a 12 year relationship with the DIY retailer.
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Home Delivery: The Last Mile
Home shopping is a lifesaver for busy people, but only when receiving the goods is as convenient as the ordering process itself. But while breaking delivery promises has been much lamented in the past, now the fulfilment Holy Grail is not getting products on the road but delivering them effortlessly to people’s doors. It’s the last mile that counts.
Read MorePost Danmark sells Posten Mailhouse
November 2001 – The Danish Post office is selling Posten Mailhouse, its printing and data division, to Stralfors a Swedish B2B company.
Read MorePass the parcel is no game for rival portals
The UK same-day courier market, with its thousands of small local operators, is, surely, just what the Internet was designed for. And two main products have emerged – financed in different ways, but both designed on the principle that if you can bring together a parcel or vital document and an empty-running driver, your electronic sub-contractor network can maintain service levels while improving efficiency.
How Courier Exchange & Expeditus operate
Lufthansa hits at LTU rescue plan
A government-orchestrated bail-out for LTU, the German charter airline, was facing criticism on Monday as Lufthansa, the German national airline, turned to the European Commission to stop what it described as “state subsidies”.
Lufthansa competes with LTU through Condor, the charter airline of Thomas Cook, the second-largest travel group in Europe. Thomas Cook is a joint venture between Lufthansa and retailer Karstadt Quelle.
Read MoreJapan Airlines to merge with Japan Air System
Japan Airlines (JAL), Asia’s largest carrier, said on Monday it would merge with Japan Air System (JAS), the third-largest domestic carrier, to form the world’s sixth-biggest carrier.
The airlines said they would set up a joint holding company next autumn, and complete integration of operations by spring of 2004
Read MoreGetting the package home.
As the managing director of DHL in Israel, Dan Granot has one recurring headache – last mile delivery to residential areas. The problem with delivering packages to homes, he discovered, was that his deliverymen worked during office hours and so did the recipients of the parcels. Seventy-five percent of the time, a deliveryman would have to drive out two or three times before he could finally get the parcel delivered. This cost the carrier a great deal of time and money. The carrier subsidized each trip and was losing large amounts of money on residential areas.
Last summer, Granot – who founded delivery company Shigur Express – decided to try to solve this problem together with Nir Kinory and Yoav Koster. The result is eShip-4u, a start-up company that has developed a convenient hardware and software solution that solves the problem of last mile delivery.
Read MorePossible privatistion of Amsterdams Schiphol Airport
Schiphol is already the fourth largest gateway in Europe for both passengers and cargo. The recognition that this fact provides will be further boosted over the next few months, thanks to the part-privatisation of parent company Schiphol Group (see panel page 6). Meanwhile, the airport is pursuing various initiatives and projects which should ensure its continued development as more than a mere air transport hub. Beyond 2010, though, the future is not yet clear.
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