EXPRESS FREIGHT ACTIVITY : TNT
| Montpellier | 11 février 2011 | |
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COSWIN ON THE TARMAC …
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| Eurohub maintenance, TNT Express sorting centre
The location of Liege Airport, located in Bierset, centre of the quadrangle Paris-Amsterdam-Frankfurt-London is ideal for the handling of merchandise in transit between 36 European countries as well as the United-States and Asia. The first European Airport to focus its strategy on freight development, Liege Airport has climbed to the top 30 of the most important freight airports of the world, ranked sixtieth in 2006 to twenty-fourth in 2007. TNT, the main company located at this Airport, inaugurated its European sorting centre in 1998. With 70% of all TNT international express parcels passing through the Liege infrastructure, a CMMS implementation was required for efficient management of the maintenance activity.
Thanks to its strong air and integrated road transport networks, the Express Division to which TNT Liege belongs is among the top four Transport Integrators worldwide. |
 Bierset TNT Express automated sorting system deals with 30 000 parcels per hour. |
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The choice of Liege for the TNT site corresponded to strategic imperatives based on the best infrastructure capacity and on the development of service offerings, in other words optimum accessibility, infrastructure and site layout, as well as the essential precondition of Express Freight activity: the authorisation of night flights.
In the field of mail transport parcels must be collected at the last possible moment from loaders and delivered to the client as soon as possible, depending on the chosen delivery service. As a result most of the activity is carried out at night; however the installations are working throughout the day to deal with arrivals from the rest of the world. The Liege Hub is active 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. It acts as a turntable platform and so must function in an optimum way to guarantee fast and reliable delivery solutions. In order to meet this commitment, activities are focused on quality and technical expertise at all levels. The evaluation of maintenance premises, the Bierset tarmac… |
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