APC Overnight on course for record year of profits
APC Overnight on course for record year of profits
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Norfolk based Star Transport has joined PalletFORCE
Norfolk-based transport company Star Transport has joined PalletFORCE, one of the country’s fastest growing palletised distribution networks, in the long-term interests of the company and its customers.
Star was previously a member of another network for nine years, but decided the timing was right to switch networks. Although Director Howard Marriott looked at a number of replacement networks, the PalletFORCE name came up repeatedly through word of mouth from contacts in the industry.
“PalletFORCE clearly has an excellent reputation,” Howard Marriott explained. “By what other hauliers have said, the Network is quick to resolve any problems and cares enough to really look after its members. And because it is owned by those members, there is an added incentive for everybody to pull together in the interest of delivering top-quality service.”
Star agreed to become a Shareholder Member Depot for parts of the IP and NR postcodes after meetings with the Network confirmed this opinion. Since joining, Marriott says, “first impressions have been very good.”
A family-owned business with over forty years of experience, Star operates out of a 40,000 sq ft depot in Thetford. Its sixty-strong fleet comprises a mix of rigids and 44 tonners.
Read MoreAmtrak Express Parcels looks to a bright future under new ownership
Amtrak Express Parcels looks to a bright future under new ownership
Read MoreAsociación Española de Empresas de Mensajería partnering with UKIP Media & Events
The spanish association of couriers companies (“Asociación Española de Empresas de Mensajería – AEM” ) signed an agreement with the British company UKIP Media & Events for the organization of the Courier and Parcel Logistics Expo 2007. The international fair, in its second edition, will be healed in Barcelona during the 2, 3 and 4 October of this year.
The event will be in parallel to the 11 edition of Post Expo, which includes an exhibition zone for the operators and suppliers of the delivery mail and courier sector and auditorium, where experts of the sector will present different conferences regarding the evolution and trends of the delivery mail and courier sector.
The decision of organizing the Courier and Parcel Logistics Expo 2007 in Spain represents an opportunity for the delivery mail and courier sector and also the recognition of the AEM work in its 24 years of history.
Read MoreABX Air Inc. Receives Unsolicited Indication of Interest from ASTAR Air Cargo Holdings
ABX Air, Inc. today acknowledged the receipt of an unsolicited indication of interest from ASTAR Air Cargo Holdings, LLC to acquire all of the outstanding shares of ABX Air for $7.75 per share in cash. No formal offer has yet been made.
The ABX Air Board of Directors, consistent with its fiduciary duties and commitment to enhancing value for shareholders, will evaluate this indication of interest as well as any formal offer actually made. The Company will respond in due course and neither the Board nor ABX Air management will make any other comment on the indication of interest until then.
Goldman, Sachs & Co. is acting as financial advisor to the Company. O’Melveny & Myers is serving as legal counsel.
ABX Air is a cargo airline that operates out of Wilmington, Ohio, and 17 hubs throughout the United States. In addition to providing airlift capacity and sort facility staffing to DHL, ABX Air provides charter, maintenance and package handling services to a diverse group of customers. ABX is the largest employer in a several-county area in southwestern Ohio.
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