Tag: UK

SMEs turn to TNT Post (UK)

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

TNT Post announces the addition of its 2000th SME customer.
Cunard, the luxury cruise line which is part of Carnival Corporation and PLC, has become TNT Post’s 2000th SME customer. Cunard will now send its customer loyalty magazine and marketing literature via TNT Post in varying delivery volumes of up to 67,000 mail items every three months. Despite its adhoc mailing volumes, Cunard has been using TNT Post’s PremierSort Flex service to access the benefits, service levels and cost savings enjoyed by larger organisations as a result of the liberalised market. PremierSort Flex is a day definite mailing solution that has been designed specifically to benefit local and SME businesses that send upwards of 250 unsorted mail items per day or have weekly, monthly or irregular mailshot requirements.
TNT Post has witnessed its SME customer base grow from 600 customers in July 2007 to 2000 this month, demonstrating an increase of more than 300 per cent in 12 months.

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FedEx supports growth in South West UK with new international and domestic facility

Posted by | Aug 11, 2008 | |

FedEx UK announced the launch of a new facility in Exeter to meet the growing demands of business in the region.

The facility, located in the Greendale Business Park, Woodbury Salterton, has doubled capacity in the South West and reduces delivery times by up to one and a half hours. The station, which processes packages going to and from customers, will handle both packages for FedEx UK domestic, and FedEx Express International customers.

The depot, which is located five miles from Exeter City Centre and three miles from Exeter International Airport, has the capacity to sort 500 packages per hour along a 70-metre conveyor belt system designed to allow the fast processing of parcels.

The 17,000 sq ft facility was also specially adapted to allow vehicles to load from any of the 13 double-shutter doors at the front and side of the building – freeing warehouse space inside the depot for peak periods and annual growth.

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European Airline Traffic data

Posted by | Aug 7, 2008 | |

The Association of European Airlines has released traffic and capacity data for its members in June 2008.

Following a better-than-expected set of results in May, the June figures more clearly reflected the depressed situation of the market. Year-on-year traffic growth slowed to 1.6pct which, coupled with a 4.0pct increase in capacity, led to a substantial fall in load factor, by 1.9 percentage points to 77.4pct.

Decreases were recorded in Domestic operations (-6.7pct) and on the North Atlantic (-0.2pct). The normally buoyant European cross-border markets grew by 3.2pct and Europe-Far East by just 0.5pct. Regions which continued to post strong growth were the South Atlantic – which, at plus 10.3pct nevertheless suffered a heavy loss in load factor – and the Middle East, with +6.9pct.

Preliminary results for July, based on weekly reports, indicate a growth figure perhaps a percentage point better than in June, driven by a slight recovery in North Atlantic and Far Eastern flows, although both remain substantially depressed. Load factors are expected to show a further decline, although less dramatic than in June.

DHL and TNT recently joined the association with effect from July 1, taking membership to 35 airlines.

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Isle of Man distribution firm to use innovative PODXchange system

Posted by | Aug 7, 2008 | |

An innovative system for tracking parcels and freight is being rolled out by distribution firm Manx Independent Carriers.

The company, which operates 120 vehicles from Skelmersdale and Douglas, is using a new international databank called PODXchange developed by technology company NetDespatch. Drivers are being equipped with special mobile devices incorporating barcode scanners and a touchsceen.

When deliveries are made and signed for, details of the shipment held in the barcode can be transmitted live to the web portal along with the captured electronic signature. The data as well as electronic signatures is then transformed into the appropriate carrier format and transmitted to Manx Independent Carriers’ customers including most major UK parcel carriers.

Manx Independent Carriers delivers on behalf of major parcel carriers including Fedex, UPS, DPD, Citylink, Parcelnet and Amtrak. Using one device, the firm can now provide a live signature proof of delivery (POD) to any of these companies.

First used in the Scottish Highlands for parcel deliveries handled by AJG, the system is being implemented by Manx Independent Carriers so that it can be used for all types of deliveries.

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