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OCR: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY bution service with no limitations on weight or vol- He adds, "There is major potential in the region ume. Cut-off time for collections is extended until for a contract distribution service and we have in- 9.00 pm each evening with early morning arrivals vested substantially in new facilities and personnel in each country. to provide a quality service on par with the compa- Plans are also in the pipeline to introduce more ny's pan-Europe contract logistics service." The aircraft to service new nightly destinations to be company has 100 contract clients in Europe alone. added to the Asia- TNT Express The conglomerate's ori- Pacific network in 1994, which will in- World wide gins lie in two small Aus- offers customer tralian distribution busi- clude Hong Kong, a single contact nesses founded just under Jakarta and Kuala point e nabling 50 years ago-Thomas Lumpur. easy selection Nationwide Transport and A third BAe 146- and usage of a time-de finite Alltrans. 300, to be based in range of In 1967 they merged to Hong Kong, is ex- products with form Thomas Nationwide pected to join the Transport Ltd (later short- fleet soon. The deliv- minimal ery of a fourth aircraft administrative ened to TNT Ltd), and so documentation began a series of strategic early in 1994 will pro- alliances leading to TNT's vide a full Asian network with the addition of China, becoming one of the world's foremost multimodal Thailand and other destinations in Malaysia. transportation groups. "Applications for landing rights to other key des- Indeed, handling more than 15.5 million consign- tinations within the region have also been made ments a year, TNT Express Worldwide offers a and are being considered by relevant authorities," global service that can carry anything weighing Moorhouse says. from a gramme to a tonne, anywhere, anytime.