Tag: TNT

Deliveries set to be more colourful

Posted by | Aug 8, 2006 | |

Postal deliveries are set to get more colourful in the north west – and bike-riding posties dressed in bright orange could soon be a familiar sight.

For a rival to Royal Mail is planning to have a team of delivery men and women in place by Christmas.

They will be dressed in orange because it is the company colour of TNT, part of the Royal Dutch Post Office.

With post office deregulation in Britain, a subsidiary of the firm – TNT Post North West – has been launched to cater for bulk deliveries for small and medium-sized companies.

The company collects, sorts and franks mail from SMEs then passes them to the Royal Mail to deliver, all for a discounted rate of around 19.5p a letter, as opposed to 23p from Royal Mail.

But TNT Post North West is aiming to grow its volume to such an extent that it will complete the service, with its own orange-uniformed postmen and postwomen making the deliveries.

The company, set up in March, has a staff of six, and is based in Audenshaw, but is poised to move to larger premises in Denton.

MD Andrew Goddard hopes the firm will be handling 15 million items in its first year.

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Parcel services circle Belgian rival

Posted by | Aug 7, 2006 | |

Leading European parcels delivery groups were on Friday, Aug. 4, circling ABX Belgium, the domestic parcels service that the Belgian national railway company Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Belges, or SNCB Holding, must sell by the end of the year.
An SNCB spokesman declined to comment on reports that several players — General Logistics Systems BV, or GLS, the Oude Meer, Netherlands-based European parcels arm of Britain’s Royal Mail Group plc; Dutch logistics, deliveries and postal services group TNT Holding BV; and the Belgian postal service De Post/La Poste — might drive in an offer.

However, the SNCB spokesman did confirm that “different parties” were interested in the business.
One banking source, who declined to be identified, said the three groups would be at the top of his list of likely buyers, though he thought France’s GeoPost SA, the parcels service of the French post office, should not be ruled out as a possible bidder. He also said United Parcel Service of America Inc., which last year bought U.K. parcel delivery group Lynx Express Ltd. and had signaled plans to grow further in the sector, could also be a player.
The parcels business, which the banker said could fetch around euro 70 million, roughly equivalent to annual revenue, has been carved out of ABX Logistics Worldwide SA/NV, the international freight-forwarding business that SNCB sold to 3i Group plc and Fortis Banque SA/NV on Aug 3

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TNT Aims To Strengthen Parcel Operations, Mulls Acquisitions

Posted by | Aug 4, 2006 | |

Dutch postal and express company TNT NV aims to strengthen its European Express activities, and could make an acquisition such as Belgian parcel service ABX, spokesman Pieter Schaffels said Friday.
TNT’s European Express is its express delivery service for packages. With an operational hub in Liege, Belgium it handles package traffic from 67 European airports.
Schaffels declined to comment on whether TNT has made a bid for ABX Logistics SA, which is part of NMBS Holding Ltd.
Earlier Friday, Belgian newspaper De Tijd reported that three European postal groups are bidding for ABX, among them U.K.’s Royal Mail, The Belgian Post Group and TNT.
Under European Union regulations, ABX must find a buyer before NMBS merges with U.K. company 3i Group PLC.
With a market share of 21%, TNT is the largest European express delivery company. Chief Executive Peter Bakker has said he wants to further strengthen the division in Europe. “We always look at takeover opportunities to achieve that,” spokesman Schaffels said.

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TNT wins customer direct contract from Sainsbury's worth undisclosed amount

Posted by | Aug 4, 2006 | |

TNT NV said it has signed a contract with Sainsbury’s PLC to handle about 20 million mail items in an effort to modernise the UK’s supermarket’s customer postal communications and generate cost savings.

Sainsbury’s will use TNT to deliver most of its customer direct mail through TNT Post’s 48-hour service for pre-sorted mail, with the UK’s Royal Mail continuing to carry out the final sort and delivery to customers homes nationwide.

No financial details were disclosed.

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China Post Airlines launch international cargo flight service

Posted by | Aug 4, 2006 | |

China Post Airlines launched its first international cargo flight service on Thursday, opening an air route from Beijing to Seoul in the Republic of Korea .

The airline, jointly owned by China Southern Airlines and China’s State Post Bureau (China Post), will extend its air routes to Europe and America as well as other countries in Asia when the time is ripe, the Xinhua-run Shanghai Securities News reported Friday.

Facing drastic competition at home from international delivery giants that have entered the Chinese express delivery market, the airline is trying to compete by entering the international cargo market, said the paper.

In line with its commitments to the World Trade Organization, China’s express delivery market was fully opened to competition in December last year. Now international delivery companies such as DHL, FedEx, TNT and UPS hold more than 60 percent of the domestic market.

The market share of China Post’s express mail service (EMS) has been shrinking, challenged not only by foreign players but also by private domestic companies, said the paper.

By April this year, private delivery services accounted for 80 percent of the country’s intracity express service and 50 percent of inter-provincial business.

In an effort to outrun its competitors, China Post last year introduced next-morning delivery and cross-region delivery, using overnight flights. China Post Airlines is the first domestic air company to fly overnight, the paper reported

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