Major mover on the road less travelled – interview with head of TNTs Express Road Network
When a fourth Boeing 737 joined his fleet last year, Niky Terzakis, MD of TNT Airways, told IFW it would enable the whole of Europe to be connected at speed. He chose Portugal to Finland as the longest possible journey across the continent, and one that most road operators would think twice about undertaking.
By genuine coincidence, however, one of the first packages I studied during a recent evening tour of TNT’s Express Road Network (ERN) hub in Duiven, near Arnhem, was a batch of Tyco wiring harnesses which had begun their journey in Lisbon on 15 February. Two nights later, they had reached Arnhem via Benavente in Spain, one of the network’s 14 sub-hubs. In another two days they would arrive at their final destination of Turku, either on a direct trailer or via an “overspill” trunker through the Helsingborg sub-hub.
