Palletways has completed the process of joining up the domestic IT systems across all the European countries served by the company’s networks, making it the first pallet network to offer a truly integrated delivery service to a vast European marketplace.
Read MoreByBox, the UK’s largest in-night delivery company, has seen turnover increase by 50 per cent to £15m in the past 12 months following several significant new business wins.
Read MoreTNT has won a GBP2.5m contract with Universal Music Operations Ltd to make overnight deliveries to independent retailers and major High Street chains stocking music and film CDs and DVDs. The Universal contract follows a successful trial period where TNT executed deliveries for Universal’s Scottish retail network in the second half of 2005. TNT’s nationwide distribution of the CDs and DVDs start in February, when more than 500,000 items will be dispatched to High Street names including HMV, Matalan, WH Smith and independent retailers every week.
Read MoreChristian Salvesen has been appointed by Continental Tyre Group to provide warehousing and distribution throughout the UK. From July this year, the European Logisitcs business will manage the tyre storage, handling and distribution of Continental Tyre Group Limited Brands. The contract was put out to tender last year, and nine companies took part in the process. Christian Salvesen was successful in securing a five year contract which will be fully operational by July 1, 2006. Christian Salvesen has also extended its logistics partnership with Goodyear Dunlop Tyres UK Limited. Christian Salvesen will take over the operation of the National Distribution Centre at Tyrefort in Erdington, Birmingham, which has more than 500,000 sq ft. of warehousing space and provides the capacity to store one million tires. Operating 24 hours a day, the center incorporates 47 loading bays and has become established as the UK’s leading tire distribution centre.
Read MoreRoyal Mail is to begin a fresh round of cost-cutting that unions fear may trigger 40,000 job losses and a huge switch from full-time to part-time work, citing a Royal Mail spokesman, The Times reported. The plans could spark industrial unrest with the Communication Workers Union (CWU), especially because the two sides have just begun pay talks in which the union is seeking a 25 pct rise, the newspaper said. It wants to bring postal pay in line with the national average. A spokesman for Royal Mail told The Times that it was looking at job cuts and more use of part-time staff, but would not comment on the size of the plans. He said that automation would cut the need for labour and that competition meant that Royal Mail’s workload would be less. ‘It is too soon to speculate on the size of Royal Mail, but it is no secret that we intend to be more efficient and flexible than our competitors,’ he told The Times.
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