Courier group TNT has opened up three new road routes linking Spain with eastern Europe. They are to Ukraine, Slovenia and Croatia, adding to those recently launched to Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, said a company statement
Read MoreTNT Germany laid the foundations of the world’s third-largest logistics facility and of its new branch in Wiesbaden in January 2000. The installation’s name: TNT Mega Hub Rhein Main.
Little over a year later, in February of this year, the huge terminal was put into operation and recently officially inaugurated.
German distribution group Hermes is close to sealing a co-operation deal with TNT Post Group to step up competition with Deutsche Post AG.
Read MorePostcomm is increasingly minded to award licences for a range of competitive postal services to those who come up with the most creative ideas and have the best chance to deliver their promises. In the case of a prolonged postal strike, this programme of change might be brought forward. There are three main contenders for a postal licence. They are: Deutsche Post, the former state-owned German postal service, which has stakes in the DHL and Securicor delivery services and has been mentioned as a buyer for Hays; TNT, which has been bought by the Dutch postal service; and Hays itself, the only UK-quoted company with a look-in. Hays already operates an upmarket delivery service for lawyers and accountants, and has made a convincing case that it could run highly competitive deliveries in major cities, including London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Moreover, if the regulator were to slice away one sector of the market, such as direct advertising, then an application from Hays or Deutsche Post, whose shares are now quoted, would find favour.
Read MoreIntegrators are notoriously reluctant to reveal who their customers are, or to talk about slowing business. But the well-publicised worldwide downturn in the telecoms market, one of Finland’s biggest exports, has brought them out of the closet.
Henrik Lindahi, DHL Finland’s commercial manager, says: “There is a decrease in demand in the hi-tech market. Shipments of heavy machinery that support the telecoms industry have more or less disappeared.”
DHL offers a next-day service throughout Europe, a same-day to Germany, the UK and Nordic countries and operates two nightly flights out of Helsinki to Brussels and Cologne. Connections to the other key Finnish markets are through Copenhagen, with a nightly flight stopping at Tampere, in central Finland, and Oulu, the northern city at the heart of Finland’s telecoms industry.
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