Tag: UK

Hazchem Network launches Irish service

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

The Hazchem Network is to launch an Irish service in mid-March. MD Jim Scanlan, tells MT that the firm has “selected our partner which will have two depots – one based in Belfast, the other in Dublin”. He declined to reveal the identity of the partner. Scanlan hopes to push the membership of the UK Network up to 40, from its present 38, in the “next couple of weeks”. It has already added 18 members since the turn of the year. Scanlan says that his aim of increasing its input of pallets to 400 pallets a night with 38 members compared to 100 pallets a night with 20 members was “not far away” from being realised. He maintains that the network will not rise above 40 members.

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UK Mail contract with The Royal Bank of Scotland Group for upstream mail services

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

Business Post announces that, following a tender process, its business unit UK Mail has contracted to provide upstream mail services to The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, one of the UK’s largest mailers. Collections will commence today. Upstream mail services comprise the collection and national distribution of mail (with associated management information and IT) for next day delivery to Royal Mail, for local sorting and final delivery.

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Fortec grows in packaging

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

FORTEC Pallet Distribution Network, a leading next-day palletised freight delivery organisation, reports an influx of new business from manufacturers, importers, retailers and distributors in the packaging sector.

These are businesses looking to expand their customer base by providing low-cost guaranteed next-day deliveries nationwide, but held back by lack of transport or economic resources.

Says Alan Cramley, Fortec Pallet’s network development director: “A lot of small and medium sized businesses in the packaging sector are becoming aware that they could expand their customer base overnight by utilising the resources of the Fortec Pallet Network through its nearly 60 licensees located around the country.”

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Pro-Liberalisers urge more vigilance from national regulators

Posted by | Mar 2, 2005 | |

National regulators need to be more zealous in applying the 2002 postal services directive, the pro-liberalisation Free and Fair Post Initiative (FFPI) says. “The current situation is far from satisfactory in most member states” as anti-trust probes are “especially rare”, FFPI president Philippe Bodson said in a recent open letter to the European Commission. He wants regulators to pay more attention to price-fixing and cross-subsidisation, the practice where postal operators use profits made in the monopolised sector to fund parts of its business competing on the open market. Mr Bodson said the Commission’s “track record in this field is encouraging” and urged it to continue actively investigating anti-competitive behaviour.

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TNT helps lorry group to double its profits

Posted by | Mar 1, 2005 | |

Dutch delivery and logistics group TPG – which also operates TNT in the UK – has delivered the highest net profit in its history, helped by the restructuring of its logistics division and by higher margins in its TNT express business.
TNT, which has a turnover of approximately pounds 750 million in the UK, has a high presence in the West Midlands. The region is home to the company’s UK headquarters in Atherstone as well as the largest UK depot at Network Park in Saltley, Birmingham.

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