Showing posts with label tnt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tnt. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2015




TNT has launched a Monday to Friday B737-400F service between Israeli capital Tel Aviv and the express operator's European hub in Liege, Belgium.
The new service "answers increasing demand" and allows TNT to shorten transit times for express shipments to and from Tel Aviv by one day.
The flight arrives in Tel Aviv in the morning for same day deliveries, and departs in the evening, allowing for close of business pick up and same day export
Martin Sodergard, managing director network operations at TNT, said: "With this flight operated by TNT, our customers will benefit from improved delivery reliability, as well as later cut-off times for pick-ups thanks to improved departure times.
"It also gives us additional capacity to further grow our business in and out of Israel.”
The European Union is the first trading partner for Israel, with total trade amounting to approximately €29bn in 2013. 
Typical TNT shipments to and from Israel include machinery, electronic products, medical equipment and textiles
Under the company’s outlook strategy, TNT is working to combine its European road network with a stronger international air network.
TNT has recently upgraded its road express services to Turkey and the Balkan countries, and added Hannover and Venice to the European air network. 

Source : http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/tnt-launches-tel-aviv-freighter-links.html

Thursday, February 26, 2015

 

Swedish truck and bus maker Volvo has renewed a three-year contract with express operator TNT for ‘inbound to production’ and aftermarket delivery services in Europe.
TNT will continue to handle Volvo’s European emergency production movements.
TNT collects automotive components and parts from more than 800 different suppliers in Europe and delivers them to production facilities in Sweden, Belgium, France and Poland.
“The service builds on TNT’s integrated road and air network in Europe. It combines scheduled and special services to ensure all production delivery needs are met,” said the express company.
It added: “The need to maintain low inventory levels while keeping assembly lines running smoothly make guaranteed reliable deliveries essential. TNT provides a door-to-door transit monitoring service for shipments from its Automotive Control Centres, with 24/7 availability.”
Under the contract, TNT handles parts distribution to Volvo dealers throughout Europe to support Volvo’s aftermarket offering. Most parts are collected at Volvo’s central or support warehouses in Europe.
Another contract sees TNT managing the delivery of parts from suppliers in Europe to Volvo Trucks’ manufacturing plant in Hagerstown, Maryland, US.
TNT said that its ‘Inbound to Production’ and aftermarket services will be available to more customers in the automotive, high tech and industrial sectors in 2015.

Source : http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/volvo-renews-tnt-international-delivery-contract.html

Saturday, February 21, 2015



TNT Express has outlined the steps that will return the parcels and freight operator to profit.
A core part of its strategy is to set up focused international Europe and domestic units, strengthening its management and accelerated investment in its transport and IT, along with improved service levels.
At a capital markets day conference this week in London, chief executive Tex Gunning and his senior management team sketched out the details.
TNT Express had earlier announced a €137m loss in the 2014 fourth quarter and a warning from Gunning that the company continues to face challenging trading conditions.
TNT was the subject of a failed takeover bid by UPS in 2013, and restructuring charges (€70m), goodwill impairments (€32m) and the costs of a re-launch (€22m) since then have compounded its financial woes.
Chief financial officer Maarten de Vries admitted that the company had suffered from a “structural underinvestment in infrastructure and IT” since the express arm of the company was demerged from the postal operations in 2011.
But since then, the company had invested to “drive operational excellence”. Further investments would, in 2018-19, further improve service reliability and lower the cost base, he said.
The company’s cost reduction programme - branded ‘Deliver!’ – had reduced worldwide headcount from 62,468 in 2012 to 58,292 he added. The target now was to generate €250m of cost reductions and realised €125m of net savings by 2018.
One of the ways this will be achieved will be by simplifying the current highly complex service portfolio – over 3,500 product codes – to a much more streamlined offering of four basic products with 75 options.
Maarten de Vries also said that processes and IT systems were much too complex and a centralised global IT organisation would be put in place.
A new ‘simplify and transform’ programme over the next three to five years would cut IT spending by €100m, although in the short term there would be IT cost increases and there would be a €70m investment in new IT systems.
Activities such as accounting, procurement, data management and customer contact centres, currently operated mainly on a country by country basis, could be consolidated through shared service centres, saving €100-150m by 2018.
The price to pay for these root-and-branch reforms would be restructuring charges of €250-300m over three years. However, these should diminish to no more than €25-50m by 2017, after hitting a peak of €125-175m in 2016.
Investment of €800-€900m in 2015-17 would, among other things, increase European air network capacity by 50 per cent, as well as improving productivity and reliability. Investment in hubs would include two new ones in the UK, three in Australia and modernisation and automation in France and Italy, added domestics managing director Marco van Kalleveen.
International Europe managing director Ian Clough pointed out that TNT was still a major player in the European global market, with 12 per cent of the total, third only to DHL (19 per cent), UPS (16 per cent) and well ahead of FedEx and Schenker’s five per cent each.
But he said that it was important to ditch the current “dysfunctional organisation” with its “heavy overhead structure” and create an integrated international European business.

Source : http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/we-will-do-better-promise-tnt-management.html

Friday, January 30, 2015



TNT has launched a daily scheduled road service to Istanbul, linking the Turkish capital city to Sofia, Bulgaria, and on to all countries in Europe via the express company’s trucking network.
The Amsterdam-based parcels company says that it is currently the only express operator to run a scheduled road connection between all of Europe and Istanbul, “offering an economical and reliable alternative for less urgent shipments”.
Transit times from Istanbul to key European business centres vary from four to seven days, depending on distance to destination.
In Turkey, TNT operates a network comprising 26 hubs and depots, as well as a fleet of 328 vehicles, which connect Istanbul with other large cities, such as Ankara, Izmir, Adana and Bursa.
The new daily road service is an addition to TNT’s existing overnight air express service to Istanbul.

Source : http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/tnts-express-trucking-link-to-istanbul.html

Wednesday, January 14, 2015



TNT is offering CO2-neutral delivery of all express domestic consignments in Germany at no additional charge.
The carrier measures how much CO2 is produced in transporting consignments and then ‘neutralises’ them with an equivalent amount of CO2 credits.
TNT uses CO2 credits only from renewable energy projects that meet Gold Standard requirements. External auditor SGS verifies the process and the CO2 calculation fully complies with the European Norm EN16258.
Customers can also opt for CO2 Neutral for their international consignments, receiving a yearly certificate specifying the amount of CO2 that TNT has neutralised on their behalf.
Other TNT CO2 services include tools to measure historic emissions and model future ones. TNT plans to roll out its upgraded CO2 services to other large European countries over the next few months.

Source : http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/tnt-helps-customers-cut-the-carbon.html

Wednesday, December 10, 2014



Parcels carrier TNT is launching a five-times a week B737-400 freighter service between Venice and its Liege air hub in Belgium, aimed at exporters and importers trading with north-east Italy.
The morning flight from Liege arrives at Venice Airport Marco Polo (VCE) at 6:00 am and continues onto Ljubljana (Slovenia) before returning to Liege.
Five weekly flights from Athens to Liege will stop in Venice on the northbound leg, departing VCE at 11:00 pm.
Said TNT: “To ensure smooth connections between air and road operations, the air gateway is located in the existing TNT Marcon depot, near Venice. It is TAPA-certified and can handle up to 10 air freight containers (or ULDs) with a loading capacity of 2,000 kg each.”
Opened in 2013, TNT's Marcon depot uses advanced automated scanning and sorting equipment. From February 2015, the air gateway and the depot will use a new, fully automated sorting machine, which will speed up the sorting of export shipments by two hours. This equipment is being rolled out across TNT Italy depots.


Source : http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/tnt-adds-venice-freighter-call.html

Wednesday, December 3, 2014




TNT Airways is to roll out paperless cockpits across its worldwide fleet by using iPad Air tablets as electronic flight bags.
TNT’s subsidiary airline, with a fleet of 50 aircraft, has made the move following approval from the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority.
Each iPad will replace the 50kg of paper books and manuals carried by crews on each flight. Going paperless will also simplify the updating of flight documents, as updates are managed centrally and electronically, regardless of the crews’ location.

All TNT Airways’ 274 pilots have received an iPad. The aircraft cockpits have been modified to house the devices and permit their use in all phases of a flight, including take-off and landing.
The approval was granted following a successful six-month validation period. TNT will remove paper documentation from its aircraft and flights by the end of 2014.
From January 2015, TNT pilots will rely solely on iPads to access information such as operating manuals, maps and navigation charts.
“TNT Airways is one of the first commercial airlines in Europe to receive the authorisation to deploy paperless cockpits. This testifies to TNT’s commitment to innovation and safety,” said Martin Sodergard, managing director network operations, TNT.
In September this year, Lufthansa Cargo said it was introducing an iPad-based Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) packed with navigation maps and operating manuals for cockpit use by pilots.


Source : http://www.aircargonews.net/news/single-view/news/tnt-cockpit-ipads-save-50kg-in-paper.html