Christian Salvesen Company Profile
Christian Salvesen Company Profile – notes from Robin following meeting with Steve Hayward, Managing Director Transport UK.
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TNT launches Asia road express service
TNT yesterday launched an Asia road express service which by 2007 will be able to truck small cargo from Singapore to Chinese cities. The new service may also see shippers beginning to opt out of both sea and air freight for some cargo with a more cost effective road transport option. This may result in some losses for both shipping lines and airfreight operators in Asia but TNT, however, sees the service as complementing the region’s well developed air and sea freight routes with the potential of significantly cutting logistics costs for businesses. It has launched what is claimed to be Asia’s first and only integrated network spanning Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and plans to expand it to link up more than 120 cities across 4,000 kilometres when Vietnam and Cambodia are added in the first half of next year. The global express forwarder hopes to extend the road links eventually to China by 2007.
Read MorePalletforce goes to Italy
Pallet network Palletforce has added Italy to its European services, bringing the total number of countries covered in mainland Europe to eight. The service, run by Leeds-based member Viamaster Transport, started last Monday.
Read MorePalletways looks at moving to gas
Palletways this week confirmed it is trialling gas-fuelled forklift trucks. Operations director Kath McCann says: “We are looking into the environmental benefits of using gas-fuelled forklifts and have recently received delivery of a demonstration vehicle. We are hopeful that the results will be positive.” Gas power, which has been adopted by some other large hubs, would do away with a need for lift truck drivers to wear masks to protect themselves from fumes.
Read MorePall-Ex director joins Palletways member
Former Pall-Ex director Glynis Hargreaves has joined Palletways with Barking-based Multi-Link, one of three new network members. Multi-Link began operating the E postcodes on October 31 after joining the network from Pall-Ex. Sales manager Hargreaves says: “We did N and NW for Pall-Ex which was too far away from our depot.” Network newcomers are TS International, operating parts of the LL and SY postcodes, and Dove Collections for the TN postcodes, previously covered by Laser Transport.
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