Euro frocks on trucks
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• Nine European garment distributors have joined forces to form Euro Fashion Logistics, a pan-European client exchange network.
UK representative Daly Transport Services, based in North London, says the venture formalises arrangements which have been operating for some time.
"We bulk trunk to the member in whichever country and they do the domestic delivery for us," says DTS managing director Michael Daly.
"We've set a tariff for intercountry trunking and we each have our own domestic tariffs, so if a customer wants an estimate for a European delivery, he can have it on the spot."
Daly describes the corn ponies involved as "top of division two". "We're not the size of Tibbet & Britten or TNT and we don't necessarily want to be."
Other participants in EFL include Samson of Denmark, Balauf of Germany and Milanbased Snatt. Firms in Spain, Sweden, Austria and Belgium are also negotiating to join.
DTS runs 40 vehicles and about 70% of its business is export. Daly is enthusiastic about the benefits of European co-operation: "We understand the mentality of English drivers and warehousemen and EFL gives us access to that domestic knowledge in Europe."