Black Eye for Big Brown
On January 14th, “Big Brown”, as UPS is nicknamed in the U.S., announced it won’t proceed with its intended deal with TNT Express. Although the decision from the European Commission …
The UPS/TNT Express deal
– will it ever happen? In May, we discussed the UPS bid for its smaller Dutch rival TNT Express. With such acquisition, worth 5.2 billion Euros, the whole market of …
Impact Of Your Increased Freight Costs?
The major freight carriers are currently all announcing annual price increases – many of them are up by 3-8%. With a large part of freight costs driven by oil prices, …
New Rules: Major changes for Air Cargo
“Known-Consignor” licenses are used today by thousands of companies in Europe, to ship cargo quickly, cost-effectively and safely by air. Companies without such a license can experience long delays due …
Taking Advantage of the UPS/TNT Express
Apart from seeing more brown trucks, and less orange ones, what will UPS’s bid for TNT Express mean for shippers in Europe or the USA? The combined size of the …
Automated invoice-checking delivers savings
Here at Polygon, our invoice-checking service has had a busy start to 2012. The service validates freight invoices for an ever growing number of customers. Checking freight invoices is notoriously …
Delivering on Supply Chain Priorities in 2012
– What are your options? All around in the current economic climate, we hear how Supply Chain managers are facing the major operational challenges to cut costs, to lower inventories …
