Geodis UK has launched a European express road service under the name Sprint.
Starting with deliveries to Germany, France and Benelux, the product offers guaranteed transit times, specific labelling and POD on request. Geodis plans to expand coverage to Italy and Spain later this year.
SkyNet Worldwide Express Netherlands has taken over the group’s London office, in which it already held a 50% stake. It bought the remaining shares from LanChile.
Read MoreTNT Express is confident it can find an alternative US delivery network if its arrangement with Airborne falls through. TNT is not expecting to renew its partnership with Airborne when the contract expires in December 2004, following the acquisition of Airborne by DHL. But group MD Alan Jones said he has contingency plans if it proved impossible to see out the current contract.
Read MoreClaude Béglé, CEO northern Europe for GeoPost, bucked the popular trend towards the logistics one-stop shop earlier this month by calling for more focus on the express industry. By working in a niche market, GeoPost was able to get business from logistics operators anyway, he said. “They come to us, but if we were in competition they would not. We want to concentrate on two services – parcels and international express.” International traffic contributed 8% to revenues last year and GeoPost is projecting a 10% increase this year.
Read MorePostcomm today sought views on arrangements to allow UK Mail Ltd, an
independent postal company owned by Business Post Plc, to use Royal Mail to
provide final delivery of its post. Once it is in place, the arrangement will enable UK Mail to collect mail from its customers, transport it to its Birmingham hub, and from there transport it direct to Royal Mail’s 1,400 delivery offices for final delivery by postmen and postwomen along with the mail they already handle. The access arrangements, as they are called, have been proposed today in a formal Notice of a proposed direction by Postcomm after the two parties were unable to agree terms between themselves. The prices proposed by Postcomm range from 11.46p up to GBP4.06 depending on the weight of the letter or package and the work done by UK Mail Ltd. The proposed prices would allow Royal Mail to recover a 6% operating profit from this business by 2006.
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