HDNL asks to expand licence
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HOME DELIVERY Network Limited (I IDNL) has applied for an 0-licence to 388 vehicles and 179 trailers in the Eastern and South Eastern areas. The application relates to its purchase of DI-IL's domestic parcel division.
DN L is due to formally take over the running of Day Definite Domestic — previously a division of DHL Express (UK) — this spring, which includes 4,700 people and 71 service centres.
The combined business will have an annual turnover of approximately £600m, of which £325m comes from HDNL, The licence application covers sites in: • Aylesham (11 vehicles, four trailers)
• Chessington (16 vehicles, six trailers)
• Dartford (15 vehicles, 10 trailers) • Enfield (40 vehicles, 30 trailers) • Hayes (26 vehicles, 15 trailers) • Aylesford (20 vehicles, 10 trailers)
Red hill (16 vehicles, seven trailers) Vauxhall, London (55 vehicles, 20 trailers) liackhridge (20 vehicles. 10 trailers) Hove (14 vehicles)
• Canterbury (11 vehicles, four trailers)
• Hailsham (13 vehicles, two trailers) * Lincoln (25 vehicles, 10 trailers)
• Northampton (24 vehicles, nine trailers) • Norwich (24 vehicles, 10 trailers)
• Cambridge (37 vehicles. 25 trailers) • High Wycombe (12 vehicles, six trailers) • Peterborough (9 vehicles, one trailer)
HDNL has also applied for an 0-licence that covers 206 vehicles and 104 trailers at nine former DI-IL sites in the North-Eastern Area.
Maritime Transport
in' Felixstowe-based Maritime Transport has applied to operate 140 vehicles and a corresponding number of trailers on the site of the former DHL depot at Nicholas Road in the town. Maritime took control of DHL Container Logistics on 1 January in a deal that created the country's largest container haulier.
Logistic Transport Systems
1 Logistic Transport Systems. which carries out work for the TNT fashion group, has been granted permission to base two more trailers at its facility in Luton, Beds. Its 0-licence is now for 16 vehicles and five trailers. John Wells, transport manager, tells CM: "Despite all the talk shout the economic downturn, business is really booming for us at the moment."
Asp ray Transport
IIIAspray Tra nsport wants to increase author' isationat its operating centre in Camberley, Surrey, to 30 vehicles and three trailers.