TNT UK has taken on a three-year contract worth £77 million to provide passport secure delivery services for the Home Office.
The contract started on the 3 July 2019 and will run until the 2 July 22. TNT is to provide secure collection and delivery service for Her Majesty’s Passport Office and mail transfer service for the UK Visa and Immigration, National Crime Agency and General Register Office.
Aldi has been granted planning permission for the £30 million extension of its existing regional distribution centre in Bathgate, Scotland, by West Lothian Council. The 196,000 sq ft extension will be a temperature controlled chill distribution and storage area. According to the supermarket retailer, the new RDC will employ around 77 staff by 2020 –…
The Road Haulage Association has backed the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency crackdown on emissions cheats saying hauliers who flout the law are not only damaging air quality, but harm the reputation of the haulage sector. “We’re very clear that it’s completely unacceptable to falsify emissions readings,” said RHA chief executive Richard Burnett. “The industry is…
The Spanish Tradisa group acquires Mosolf’s shares in their joint ventures Tramosa France in Creutzwald, and Tramosa Logistik in Saarlouis. The two companies have agreed on this takeover in early March. The transaction is planned to be completed in Q3/2017 at latest. Through this purchase Tradisa, owning already 50 percent of the shares, acquires the…
Jason Rockett, Managing Director of industrial and logistics property company Potter Space, shares his view on the small to mid-box (sub-100,000ft²) property market in light of the company’s new research report, ‘BIG Things in SMALL Boxes’, conducted in collaboration with Savills. Our latest research has shone a light on the increasing lack of land that…
DHL has opened a new sorting centre at its express hub in Leipzig, Germany as part of a €230million investment into the expansion of the site. The facility includes fully automated sorting for heavier shipments. The logistics company has said that the investment has increased the processing capacity of DHL by 50 per cent to…
TNT Express and the French publishing company Spir Communication have signed a memorandum of understanding on a partnership in business-to-consumer (B2C) standard parcel deliveries. The two partners intend to quickly take a strong position in the fast-growing domestic French market for e-commerce and B2C deliveries. Pending approval by the relevant authorities, under the agreement TNT…
