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Poland: CTL Logistics briefs British MPs on Polish rail freight market

Posted by | Sep 8, 2007 | |

Pawe³ Szymañski, Chief Financial Officer at CTL Logistics S.A., outlined CTL’s market position and strategy for its European business to Rail Freight Group, an asso-ciation of British MPs and managers, during its recent visit to Poland.

Szymañski pointed out that CTL is consistently expanding its rail transport and logistics operations in Poland, which is a secure basis for all its activities that will enable it to pro-vide international services.

CTL is making significant efforts outside Poland to obtain licenses to run its own rail operations in all the main EU markets. Last week, the company was granted a safety certificate in the Netherlands, a key prerequisite for transporting containers from North Sea ports to Central and Eastern Europe. CTL has also entered into agreements with coun-tries to the east of Poland, outside EU borders, i.e. beyond the liberalized transport area, allowing it to take and hand over block trains at borders and organize further transport in the wide gauge system.

CTL is also purchasing a fleet of multi-system locomotives suitable for international traffic and has deployed its own wagons wherever availability of equipment is vital for meeting customer requirements, such as for transporting cars.

In order to plan and manage trains on a uniform basis, CTL is currently establishing a unique Train Control Center for managing its entire rolling stock and staff deployment.

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Port centric logistics delivers retail supply chain advantages

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Panalpina has provided a port centric solution for its major home wares retail clients by outsourcing to TNT and Import Services

Panalpina’s clients previously managed their own supply chain once product arrived at the UK port of entry; however this was proving to be unnecessarily complex and costly. In consultation with its clients Panalpina has taken charge of the final stage of the journey and, with its partner’s expertise, is producing astonishing results.

Import Services and TNT provide two distinct services once Panalpina has moved product in sea containers, from origin to Southampton port.

TNT, the UK’s leading business to business express delivery service specialists, collects store ready consignments from the containers at its Southampton port based depot, before putting them into its national distribution network in readiness for next day delivery to high street retailers throughout the UK.

Import Services takes the residual bulk stock into its adjacent distribution centre where storage, order processing, high volume pick/pack and distribution of replenishment orders are effected.

Portcentric is the distribution to an end recipient straight from the port. A distribution model which is fast becoming the smart option as it offers impressive cost and time savings as well as attractive green credentials.

Portcentric distribution takes at least 10 percent of time out of the supply chain from the Far East and in Panalpina’s experience a significant percentage of cost. This saving plus a reduced carbon footprint, adds up to an exciting proposition which is starting to grab the attention of UK industry.

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AstraZeneca – one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers -has awarded NYK Logistics (UK) Ltd a two and a half year contract.

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

The contract is for the centralized planning and primary distribution of pharmaceutical products from its manufacturing sites throughout Europe into its European distribution network.

Under the new agreement, NYK is providing centralized management and planning of the entire pan-European road transportation operation.

James Shaw (Global Category Lead Freight & Logistics), AstraZeneca said: “We were impressed by NYK’s approach to the tender process – their solution went beyond our initial requirements and demonstrated a high level of added value, along with an understanding of the importance of quality, integrity and audit control in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Their professional and pro-active approach also gave us every confidence in their ability to deliver what they promised.

“At both a cultural and operational level, NYK recognized that the new approach would represent a major challenge for many of our manufacturing plants and established a dedicated implementation team to ensure a seamless transition to the new system, including a dedicated relationship manager to ensure maximum confidence and co-operation from every site.”

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PalletFORCE has appointed Alan Cooke to the new position of Network Solutions Director.

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Alan will have responsibility for looking at how PalletFORCE’s current models can be improved, and also will be charged with developing innovative new ways of working as the Network looks to diversify in the future.

Alan brings seventeen years of experience in the logistics industry, having worked with both logistics companies and end users. He joins PalletFORCE from T-Mobile, where as International Logistics Manager he looked after the distribution and warehousing needs of twelve European countries. Previous employers include Christian Salvesen, Exel Logistics, Kuehne and Nagel, and Tesco.

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Survey records people’s attitudes to Royal Mail service

Posted by | Sep 6, 2007 | |

One year on from Royal Mail’s introduction of Pricing in Proportion (PIP), MarketingFile conducted a survey to see if business postal costs had increased or decreased.

When asked “since PIP was introduced, have your office mail costs increased”, 44 pct said yes, and 16pct said it had decreased. When asked how the changes affected their Direct Mail costs, 63 pct said costs had increased, with 25 pct staying about the same.

A sharp contrast to the Royal Mail’s initial pitch to Postcomm which stated: “The great majority of our mail will not change in price and this means that most of our customers will not be greatly affected”.

Whatever the opinion of PIP, 65 pct of businesses still use first class post for their office mail, and 44 pct for direct mail. With the British stamp still being the preferred method of payment for 49 pct.

When asked, are you happy with the service you receive from the Royal Mail, 50 pct of business users said no. Despite this, when asked if they would think about using a different provider the majority of participants said yes, but was confused about the available suppliers.

With last month’s debate between Postcomm and the Royal Mail on possible reductions of deliveries to 5 days a week, we asked “How would this affect you?” 28 pct of our readers felt it could have a serious impact on their business; with 60 pct voting they would least like to loose Monday deliveries and 64 pct happy to loose Saturday.

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