Exel PLC, the logistics group, said it has won a four-year contract valued at 16 mln stg from Alcampo, the Spanish subsidiary of the French retailer Auchan.
Alcampo owns 41 hypermarkets across Spain and a chain of over 100 supermarkets
Read MoreDecember 4 2001. Correos y Telegrafos has now acquired the majority stake in express parcels delivery service Chronopost Express Espana.Until now it was a joint venture with the French post office (La Poste)
Read MoreUpdate on the BvDP postal liberalisation index including key data.
Read MoreCorreos y Telegrafos, the Spanish postal service, is considering a possible purchase of a courier company with the aim of gaining market share in the sector. Correos recently launched courier subsidiary Chronoexpress and group chairman Alberto Nunez announced yesterday that French counterpart La Poste is to take a minority stake in the new venture.
Read MoreAutomotive Logistics
Huge flows of containerised automotive components are now being shipped around Europe by rail, which is now winning its fair share of traffic as competition between service providers grows.
Joe Pickers, general manager UK of Spanish rail operator Transfesa, emphasises the contribution that rail can make to the supply chain. The operator runs between six and 12 blocktrains a week, between Ford’s production plants in Dagenham, east London and Valencia.
“Each train carries 44 13.6 metre swapbodies, ” he says.
“It would be difficult to arrange the movement of such a large volume of freight by road at any one time.”
Transit time is between 36 and 48 hours, and Pickers says the service is extremely competitive in both speed and price, compared with road.
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