New fast carrier
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N EXPRESS freight carrier s operations in the UK on ay. The Independent ExCorporation plc (CM Octois the brainchild of four !r directors of the Austraased Interstate Parcel ExCompany (lpec) and has :ial backup from the TransDevelopment Group initiir the sum of £1/2m.
James Duncan, chairman G is also chairman of IEC. ioined on the board by two fellow TDG directors Jim art and David Horner.
philosophy of the new any is that its customers -e a fast, reliable and costive overnight service. This to be supplied with a y-back guarantee if traffic delivered by noon the next John Konstas, the IEC md this week that they were 3 business of supplying a :e but not rate-cutting.
'systems pack" has been ;hed and the sales director Nares stressed that there no small print".
will they be confined to ting parcels only. Any It which will fill any part or a 40ft container will be led on a next-day delivery
3 company has established :pots throughout the UK at gow, Newcastle, Leeds, ington, Birmingham, Luton, if, Bristol, Southampton, London Heathrow with its it Northampton.
a final location of the deis dependent on the speed which the Department of ;try moves to make grants. : establish a depot in a dement area before these : comes through then the .will be withdrawn.
chael Egan, marketing tor, stressed the point that were not parcels carriers that they would not ssarily have contractual )ments with customers. "A e call will be sufficient to re service."
ypical rate published by the any for freight from Lon:o Glasgow is £18 basic rate 70 pence per kilo. The printarget area for IEC potential c is in the own account field .e 665m tons of traffic is ad annually. At the moment 13 million tons moves by ..ss freight.