TNT Named ''Best Road Haulier'' In Asia For Second Consecutive Year
TNT Express Worldwide, leading provider of global express and logistics services, today announced that it has won the coveted "Best Road Haulier Asia" award for the second time running in the Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA). As the industry's top accolade for excellence in Asia, the twentieth AFSCA was held for the first time in Kuala Lumpur. The results were announced at the annual gala dinner organised by Cargonews Asia at the Shangri-La Hotel last night.
"This award is testament to our efforts to continually strive for service excellence to provide the most efficient and reliable services," said Gerry Power, Managing Director of TNT Malaysia, who was present to receive the award. "It reflects the value-add to our customers' businesses through TNT's innovative and comprehensive solutions," he added.
The AFSCAs are designed to acknowledge and honour each winner's leadership as well as consistency in service quality, innovation, relationship management and reliability. The criteria for Asia's "Best Road Haulier" included timely pick-up and delivery of freight, extensive infrastructure to support business needs, effective and user-friendly IT systems and competitiveness of rates.
TNT plans to continue enhancing its road offerings by developing and leveraging on its Asia Road Network, launched in December last year. As Asia's first and only integrated road network spanning Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, the Asia Road Network allows for transit times that are two to three times faster than sea freight while offering significantly lower costs compared to airfreight. TNT also intends to expand the network to include Laos, Vietnam and China.
"The Asia Road Network provides our customers with a cost and time effective business solution by leveraging on our existing, integrated air and road networks. It offers an unrivalled day definite express delivery service, a key factor that contributed to our win," said Gerry.
The "Best Road Haulier" award is not the only honour TNT has earned recently. The company also announced earlier this month that it is the first and only global transport company operating in France to receive the ‘Certipharm' accreditation for expertise in the transportation of medical products, Awarded by the Association Française d'Assurance Qualité (AFAQ). The accreditation recognises the presence of rigorous procedures to prevent the quality of medical products from being compromised during any stage of the transportation process.
About TNT Express
TNT Express is the world's leading business to business express delivery company. The company delivers 3.5 million parcels, documents and pieces of freight a week to over 200 countries using its network of nearly 900 depots, hubs and sortation centres. TNT Express operates over 19,000 road vehicles and 43 aircraft and has the biggest door-to-door air and road express delivery infrastructure in Europe. The TNT Express website is: www.tnt.com/express.