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Palletways aims to create 'pan-European network'
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Palletways' plans to be the number-one pallet network in Europe are well on their way to fruition. Dominic Perry eports.
CM EXCLUSIVE
PALLET FIRM Palletways will run the first trunks from its UK network into its Central European Network on 16 January next year.
Freight will he moved from its UK huh in Fradley. Stalls, into the European hub at Nijmegen in the Netherlands for onward delivery in an area that includes the Benelux countries, parts of Germany, northern France and Denmark.
Craig Hibbert.Palletway's group development director, says initial volumes will be small in order to test the system: "We aren't going to open ii up to everyone straight away, but we have a number of UK members who'll inject volume and our European members will put in Freight townie back.
"We'll run it like this over a five
to six-week period, then open it up to the market," he adds.
Palletways is in the final stages of setting up its Iberian network.With the majority of hauliers now signed up. it hopes to begin operating early next year. It has also recently signed a deal to start a Swiss service and plans to build up a French operation within two years.
Hibbert says Palletways' plan is to create the first pan-European network for palletised freight. -We'd rather build a European network than have a relationship with a third-party provider."
• Palletways is researching whether it is feasible to extend the area served by its Southern hub in the light of rising volumes.
The hub in Greenford, West London, serves the South-East from Southampton through Greater London to Colchester.
it enables hauliers with freight for other depots in the South-East to cut trunking costs to the Midlands. Any extension would only happen if il were cost effective to members, says Hibbert. The firm is already considering further regional depots along the M4 and M62 corridors as a means of dealing with future volume growth.
• A wide-ranging interview with Craig Hibbert will appear in CM in the new year.