Network Transport Group of England has acquired Route One Logistics for an undisclosed sum. NTG is known for specialist VIP chauffering as well transportation of time-critical parts (e.g. organs for transplantation).
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GBP1bn a year same-day courier market by trading in spare capacity * Operating model guarantees payments and boosts revenues. UK start-up Expeditus (www.expeditus.co.uk) begins trading today with a pledge to grow the same day courier market by offering courier firms the opportunity to easily trade spare capacity across the industry over the Internet.
Competition in Britain’s postal industry shifted up a gear yesterday
when the industry regulator, Postcomm, signalled its intention to
grant a temporary licence to the logistics and support services
group Hays for the provision of three specialist services. Postcomm said the proposed one-year licence would allow it to assess
the effects of certain enhanced postal services while it develops
its longer term policy for liberalisation of the postal market where
Consignia, formerly the Post Office, enjoys a de facto monopoly on
the delivery of mail weighing less than 350gr and costing less than
pounds 1 to send.
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