Tag: Road Transport

Profile of Roadway Express

Posted by | Nov 1, 2001 | |

Profile of Roadway Express – , a 70-year-old company with revenues last year of $3 billion. Roadway handles more than 60,000 shipments every day–5 to 10 percent of them “hot”–most often for clients in manufacturing, retail, and construction. The company has 28,745 employees and specializes in two-day delivery throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico, with 100,000 routes interstate. The company competes in the LTL, or less-than-truckload, market, where multiple customers put freight on a single truck.

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SSI shifts base to Hythe

Posted by | Nov 1, 2001 | |

Kent based Sanderson & Hayward International (SSI) has moved to new and larger premises at Lympne Industrial park in Hythe. The new sites close proximity to the Channel Tunnel means that the company can now offer importers from continental Europe a guaranteed next-day delivery of consignments of one to four pallets, and a 48 hour service through its membership of Palletline.

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FedEx Ground volume takes off: Freight mitigates air losses

Posted by | Oct 30, 2001 | |

“We believe that FedEx Ground package volume will grow approximately 9% and that yields will increase about 6%, similar to first-quarter growth rates,” FedEx chief financial officer Alan Graf said.

But in its first detailed disclosure of how the attacks have affected its business, FedEx said it expects second-quarter U.S. air express shipments to be down 11% from a year earlier, and international express to fall 5%.

Until now, FedEx had said it was unable to quantify the attacks’ effects. Most of its rivals, including top package deliverer United Parcel Service Inc., have warned of lower package volume, higher costs and weaker profits.

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Sweden Post subsidiary acquires 2 Dutch carriers

Posted by | Oct 28, 2001 | |

Via its subsidiary Hultberg Inrikes Transporter (HIT), Posten has purchased the Dutch carriers Starintex Road Cargo and Gendringen Expedite. The companies operate within forwarding and in-night transportation in the Netherland, Belgium and Germany.

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