Blueflite bid succeeds
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• Blueflite of Dublin has beaten off attempts by 20 leading UK and Irish contractors to take over parts deliveries for General Motors in Ireland — and in doing so it has trebled its contract revenue.
In the first stage of a panEuropean shake-up of parts supply flows, GM has closed its warehouse in Ireland. VOR and stock order deliveries are now made directly to dealers from the main UK warehouse in Luton.
Blueflite held the old transport contract, worth £250,000 a year; in beating off the multinationals it has become the prime contractor in a deal worth £750,000.
The contract was awarded in early November and started 2 December, says Blueflite managing director and co-owner Jerry Kierney. Companies were only given a few weeks to prepare their bids — Kierney reckons his firm won "because we showed we can respond to being pushed".
Blueflite is using Swift Transport to trunk two truckloads a night to Manchester: one to the airport, where the freight flies Aer Lingus; the other to Blueflite's depot in the city. Blueflite, which is the Irish partner in StockEurop, also delivers a few lines from its own store in Dublin.