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overnight parcels and press freight operation east f the Iron Curtain. This week ie company announces a 12ionth, .2150 million investment rogramme to buy more jets aits Cologne-based European r-freight hub and to help it
up a permanent TNT base Budapest, Hungary.
TNT has decided to buy five lore British Aerospace 146 !T "whispering" jets at a cost f £60 million, and to create le biggest company-owned ircraft fleet in Europe. ;udapest will be the first of iany Comecon cities to go 'NT, says James Wilson, the eneral manager of TNT Exress, who sees the whole of last and West Europe as one iant express freight market. The group is excited about business 390 million East
rn consumers could add ) its existing Western Euroean customer base of over 00 million consumers. "It is a
major opportunity for us," says TNT Express Europe managing director Alan Watson.
The aircraft connect with TNT's Continental truck fleet at the "superhub" in Cologne, which is now TNT's sole European centre following the merger of its hubs in Hanover, Nuremburg and Cologne.
For many Hungarian exporters, the new TNT service from Budapest will bring coun tries like the United States only 24 hours away for the first time, says TNT.
The quiet jets the company uses allow it to offer door-todoor collections and deliveries across Europe, aircraft containers which the customer can pack himsef, and the ability to carry temperature-sensitive goods within 5°C of accepted levels for 24 hours in specially insulated containers.