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APC Overnight experiences continued growth.

August 3rd, 2010

logo4APC Overnight is expanding with significant increases in warehousing and operational facilities focused on the Midlands and Southern Counties of England. The UK’s largest next day parcel network reports that several members have strengthened their operations and services because of increasing business.

APC EDS Couriers in Cannock is now occupying a new site five times the size of its previous depot and warehouse. Andy Evans, EDS Courier MD expects this upward trend to continue and says: “As we come out of recession, more businesses are sending more parcels at the same time as holding less stock themselves – and of course they still require reliable delivery to their customers the next day.”

APC Acclaim Parcel Express is servicing Portsmouth from a new local depot, adding to its existing businesses in Southampton and the Isle of Wight. The expansion was partly prompted by rising demand for stock control and distribution services, in which the company has significant expertise – especially with imports from the Far East.

APC Streetwise moved its Warwick operation to a new 10,000 sq ft site with a half acre loading bay, to accommodate expanding demand including daily fresh food deliveries to household name restaurateurs such as Heston Blumenthal and Raymond Blanc. The company also has facilities in Croydon, Leatherhead and New Malden, and Martin Russell, MD, says: “Overnight delivery is definitely where the growth is.”

APC Scarlet Couriers has added a new 20,000 sq ft depot to its chain of facilities serving the Thames Valley and Chilterns. The Wycombe depot allows it to consolidate warehousing and distribution under one roof, and connects with existing locations as Martin Cavendish, Operations Director, explains: “Our Wycombe depot joins up our existing customer zones to provide APC services all the way from west of Reading via Slough and Uxbridge through to London’s Shepherds Bush.”

Other depots that have moved to new bigger sites include APC Roadlink, Bournemouth, APC TWC Parcel Collection Services in Shrewsbury and APC Eezehaul in Crawley.

Maintaining Industry leading service levels clearly brings its rewards, Whatever the economic Climate.

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The Global Parcel Industry –

June 5th, 2010

APCA TRULY GLOBAL INDUSTRY The numbers are mind boggling, In addition to the major ‘global’ carriers a multitude of other networks move millions of packages each day. A huge level of resource is required to do this, state of the art technology, and seamless logistics. World leading brands exist within this industry – UPS – FEDEX – DHL – TNT…..all household names. As a small local company and networking within the APC group Euro-Tran Despatch is up against such powerhouses of the industry. All is not well within our industry, The constant endeavour of the globals to achieve ‘market share’ has led to major consolodation within the industry, and some excellent brands have, as such disappeared, swallowed up, in some cases by lesser companies. City Link are ‘reportedly’ just emerging from difficult times some time after their takeover of Target Express. Experiencing massive losses, and shedding enormous resource and staff along the way. DHL having pulled out of the US Overnight parcels market, Then go on to ‘allegedly’ pay HDN in excess of £200m to take its UK overnight business off its hands, This in order to enable DHL to ‘focus’ on its core international and priority business. Clearly all is not well.
Uk Mail, formally Business Post, now see’s postal mail accounting for some 45% of its business, Meanwhile Royal Mail, as a result of the opening up of the under £1 shipment (For so long a monopoly of the Royal Mail)and after repeated strikes over the Crozier cutbacks is a fraction of its former self.

What does the future hold for the Industry ? One thing is for sure, Consolidation will continue and fewer carriers will result in less choice. While all this goes on, our small depot in Skipton continues to ship on behalf of over 300 locally based businesses. We endeavour where possible to do so with an honesty, and a sense of humour not necessarily available with the big players. When you handle thousands of parcels a day, sometimes it goes wrong, nobodys perfect, But we believe when it does go wrong we are as pro-active as any carrier to make it right. But service levels remain second to none. Even in these difficult economic times our client base continues to grow and few clients are ‘Lost’ to the global players.

This is achieved through damned hard work, and over a hundred and twenty (The largest network in the Uk) APC depots assist us in our endeavours. We must however develop what we offer to our clients. With the advent of Online Booking, Pod retrieval, and the excellent service levels on offer we do find that we have less and less interaction with our clients. The traditional banter between our staff and clients enabled us to judge what we do right, and when we get it wrong so its important we maintain these lines of communication. A dynamic user friendly website is crucial to maintaning this , so please any feedback you have on the service we offer, or don’t, as the case may be is crucial. Let us have it. Also, If you have any news stories we can add to our Blog send them to me.? Do you have staff doing something exceptional ? Have you won an order from an unusual source – or vital to retaining /growing your workforce locally? Global the industry may be – LOCAL is our interest.

E-mail me personally with any ideas or subjects you would like to see on our blog – photos included. I cannot promise to post everything but will try to accomodate them where possible. I will look to add links to websites you may find interesting, informative or just plain funny.

Thanks for your time..

Dave Howson
MD Euro-Tran Despatch
dave@euro-tran.co.uk

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Would a Local Delivery Service benefit you?

January 23rd, 2010

We are currently looking into introducing a local service aimed at providing a cost
effective, overnight service throughout the West/North Yorkshire areas. Perhaps
even including South Yorkshire. Would such a service benefit you ?

We would have a target of £3 up to 20 kilos, and look to provide the service over
the BD,LS,HX,HD,WF,HG,and possibly the YO/S postal codes. Such a service would
be more cost effective than using your own delivery vehicle. The service would of
course work within the current online booking procedures, and be trackable, POD’s
online, etc.

If you have any views on such a service, or can provide any feedback on other
services you feel we should offer, please let us know.

Dave Howson
Euro-Tran Despatch
dave@euro-tran.co.uk

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CURRENT FUEL SURCHARGES.

December 1st, 2009

**** The Current Fuel Charges In Place are ****

Uk freight (Euro-Tran/APC) 4.5%
International (Standard UPS) 3.50% (Dec 7th to Jan 6th)
(Express UPS) 13.50% (Dec 7th to Jan 6th)

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December – AGAIN – Christmas 2009 is upon us.

December 1st, 2009
Christmas is upon us.

Christmas is upon us.

Its that time of year again, We have already had a number of enquiries as to our Christmas Operations
Its now December so the schedule is listed below.

Wednesday 23/12/2009 Normal Operations – Night Trunk Operational.
Thursday 24/12/2009 Depot open until 2pm – ( We will only guarantee to attempt AM manifested consignments today, Many destinations will be unattended after lunchtime.)
Friday 25/12 Through to Monday 28/12 Depot Closed.
Tuesday 29/12/2009 Normal Service resumes at 8.00 am
Wednesday 30/12/2009 Normal Service
Thursday 31/12/2009 Depot open until 2pm. ( We will only guarantee to attempt AM manifested consignments today )
Friday 1/1 – Saturday 2/1 – Sunday 3/1 – Depot Closed.
Monday 04/01/2010 – Normal Service is Resumed at 7am.

Latest collection times will be as follows.
Bradford 16:00 hrs – Shipley 16:15 hrs – Keighley 16:30 hrs – Skipton 17:00hrs – Drop into Depot 17:00hrs

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