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• Red Star, the rail-based parcels operator, has launched a worldwide express parcels service, linking with other national parcels operators elsewhere in the world.
For the last two years Red Star has operated in Europe in conjunction with other national railway companies. Now Red Star is moving outside Europe, but none of its new partners is a rail operator. This follows the trend set in October last year, when Red Star made its first foray outside Europe — to the United States.
Business manager Adrian Shooter says overseas business currently accounts for 3% of Red Star's £65 million turnover. He expects the proportion to grow to 12% within a year, and to 25% by 1992.
Shooter claims Red Star can get packages to Papua.-New Guinea or Melbourne, Australi within three days.
Red Star's move into the in ternational market follows who the company describes as unprecedented demand during th recent postal strike,
LI Red Star has agreed a three-year 'contract-hire deal with National Carriers Contrac Services, under which the NF1 subsidiary supplies 10 new Leyland Daf box vans to carry parcels 24 hours a day between the London station termini.