Tag: TNT

Record-Breaking Award Haul for Express Delivery Giant

Posted by | Jul 19, 2006 | |

An outstanding performance by Atherstone-based TNT Express Services in the UK delivery market has been rewarded with two top awards at a ceremony honouring the cream of the transport industry.

The Warwickshire express delivery giant picked up the awards in the Customer Care and Training categories at the Motor Transport Awards at a glittering ceremony in London last week, taking the total number of Motor Transport awards won over the past 20 years to 23 – a feat unmatched by any other transport company.

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Middle East Logistics 2006

Posted by | Jul 19, 2006 | |

The Middle East Logistics Report 2006 is packed full of useful macro-economic data, providing an ideal background to the growth of the express and logistics industries in the region. Included in the report are statistics on trade, GDP and demographic figures for the region as well as individual countries.

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Scotland set for privatised post trial

Posted by | Jul 19, 2006 | |

Britains first fully privatised door-to-door post service to rival the Royal Mail is to be trialled in Scotland.

Glasgow and Edinburgh have been chosen, along with Manchester, for an experiment which will give customers the choice of having collection, sorting and delivery carried out entirely in private hands.

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TNT's contrarian view

Posted by | Jul 17, 2006 | |

While other express carriers have built airfreight networks with numerous international flights, TNT is keeping its eyes on the ground. The Dutch integrated carrier is establishing a domestic ground network based on the acquisition of a large Chinese parcel and logistics operator, Hoau Logistics Group.

Hoau, established in 1995 and based in Heilongjiang, has more than 1,100 depots in China, along with more than 3,000 trucks and 12,000 employees. This gives TNT a huge footprint in the world’s favorite growth market, but it is not an express network, admitted Marie Christine Lombard, managing director of TNT Express.

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European postal companies call for complete liberalisation in 2009

Posted by | Jul 17, 2006 | |

Chief Executive Officers of national postal companies in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Germany have started a joint initiative for a complete opening of the postal markets in Europe by 2009. In a policy paper addressed to Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, CEOs Peter Bakker (TNT), Erik Olsson (Posten AB), Jukka Alho (Finland Post Corporation) and Klaus Zumwinkel (Deutsche Post World Net) plead for a sustainable postal sector in the next decades that should be realised by a complete market liberalisation by 2009 and the modernisation of the universal service.

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