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TNT – recently acquired by FedEx - is expanding the coverage area of its international express delivery service in Spain, and now offers next day delivery to and from an additional 1,300 postal codes, or 90% of businesses. It follows the addition of extra pickup and delivery vehicles and rounds, additional direct linehaul routes, and the opening of a new international road transit hub in Madrid.
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After a year of behind-the-scenes activity, FedEx formally took over rival operator TNT Express on 25 May, described by FedEx president and chief executive David Bronczek as “a historic day in the history of these two great companies.”
FedEx also revealed that it would be moving its European headquarters to TNT’s ...
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FedEx’s take-over of TNT Express could mean less choice and increased costs and transit times for shippers of large and heavy items, warns David Jinks, head of consumer research at brokers ParcelHero.
He says that TNT has made ‘ugly freight’ a speciality “and has significantly greater flexibility on the size of ...
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We’re not sure about the chap at the bottom of the picture (it could be posed) but the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award does have one important supporter in the shape of FedEx Express, which has just announced a new level of sponsorship. The logistics giant is helping the charity's Diamond ...
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FedEx has declared its offer for TNT Express unconditional and that settlement will take place on 25 may. FedEx president and chief executive David Bronczek, President and CEO, FedEx Express said the date “will be a profound moment in the history of these two great companies. Together, we will transform ...
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FedEx and TNT Express said that 88.4% of the total number of shares had been tendered by the deadline on 13 May. FedEx said it would announce no later than 19 May whether it would declare its offer for TNT unconditional.
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FedEx has opened a Cold Chain Centre at its Memphis, Tennessee, hub. Designed to protect the integrity of temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments, the 83,000sq ft facility includes areas for -25°C to -10°C (frozen), 2°C to 8°C (cold) and 15°C to 25°C (controlled-room temperature) products and real-time carbon dioxide, humidity and temperature ...
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Thanks to FedEx 22 Liverpool children escorted the teams onto the pitch – and watched Liverpool make it to the final of the UEFA Europa League against Villareal on 5 May. The express giant, which is the main sponsor of the Europa League, provided around 50 tickets to children and ...
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FedEx and TNT Express have gained unconditional approval from China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) for their merger. With one of the last obstacles overcome, the two express companies say that they have fulfilled all the requirements for competition clearance for the deal to go ahead, the authorities in Brazil, Europe ...
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UPS has made a fresh attempt to halt rival FedEx's takeover of TNT by asking the EU to overturn its veto of its own takeover bit for the Dutch operator three years ago. UPS reportedly has asked the Luxembourg-based General Court to overturn the veto because of mistakes made by ...
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