Tag: Europe

Chronopost opens EUR 12m new Lyon-Corbas hub

Chronopost built the EUR 12 million centres, where 150 employees will work. The company expects to handle 20% of its national volume, 50,000 parcels per day.

Chronopost is also building a EUR 50 million main national hub at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, opened at the beginning of next year.

The express operator is significantly increasing the density of its national metropolitan network this year, basing it on 60 local centers and five new hubs at Montpellier, Poitier and Roissy (Charles De Gaulle airport), as well as Corbas and Chilly-Mazarin.

Hub Key facts
Area : 6,400 m2
Capacity: 7,500 boxes per hour
Items in transit: 50,000 boxes, 620 rolls, 250 pallets.
Number of vehicles: 130
Investment in the regions: Euro 49 million in 2006

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Tanfield picks TNT

Electric truck maker Tanfield has chosen TNT for the shipments of consignments around the UK and Europe.

The six-figure deal for TNT includes delivery of critical components from Europe to Tanfield’s two UK sites in the North East along with and the export of vehicle parts back to the Continent.

TNT currently handles up to 200 consignments each week with components weighing in at anywhere between a single kilo right up to a hefty 100 kilogram packages.

All of the parcel traffic is being routed through Tanfield’s local TNT Express depot in Durham and the nearby Durham and Tees Valley Airport, but the overall operation of parts flowing in from and back out to Europe, is being masterminded by TNT’s unique Automotive Control Centre in Northampton.

Last December TNT Express Services became first company to purchase and trial Tanfield’s 7.5-tonne Newton truck

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TNT Express wins Bosch Supplier Award

TNT Express has won the Bosch Supplier Award in the “Logistic Service Provider” category for the second time in a row. Bosch awarded the prize to TNT for its performance regarding quality of service, reliability and pricing. Other criteria were communication, cooperation and readiness for continuous improvement. The globally operating Bosch Group’s prize was awarded to the whole TNT Express division.

TNT had already won the supplier prize, which is awarded every two years, in 2005. Now, Bosch is rewarding the express service provider for its cooperation during the past two years.

John Willems, Global Account Director TNT Express and Dieter Schwaderer, Senior General Manager Coordination & Projects TNT Express Germany, accepted the prize during a function at the State Gallery in Stuttgart on 4th July 2007.

TNT Express’s uncompromising focus on its customers’ needs and requirements has been impartially certified before: at the beginning of 2007, TNT Express won the European Business Award in the ‘Customer Focus’ category. The renowned prize is supported by a number of well-known organisations from all over Europe – including the Wall Street Journal Europe, Siemens, Grey EMEA, Société Générale, AXA and CMS, an alliance of major European law firms. TNT Express was named ‘most customer focused business in Europe’ because, according to the jury, it ‘sets an example in focusing on the customer as the centre of its business activities and on making exceptionally efficient use of resources in order to fulfil its customers’ needs.’

Bosch is awarding the prize that is offered to suppliers across the globe, for the eleventh time since 1987. The prize is awarded every two years. This year, it was awarded in five categories to a total of 47 companies from 14 countries.

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Post Office boosts Instant Saver rate

The Post Office is increasing the rate on its Instant Saver account from 5.75 per cent to 6.00 per cent* following today’s rise in the Bank of England base rate.

The new rate will be available to new and existing Instant Saver customers from August 1 2007.

Post Office Head of Savings Richard Norman said: “The Post Office® continues to be one of the few savings providers to consistently pass on base rate rises in full to customers, and we guarantee to do so until 2010.”

Post Office Instant Saver also guarantees to remain within 1.0% of the Bank of England base rate for the life of the account and offers six free withdrawals a year with a flat fee of just £1 for future withdrawals.

Instant Saver is available at all of the UK’s 14,000 Post Office branches, by telephone and online. Withdrawals can be made both at branches and ATMs, offering unrivalled choice and convenience.

*This includes a 1.0% bonus for 12 months from the date of account opening.

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