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<blockquote data-quote="BleedBrown" data-source="post: 313685" data-attributes="member: 10340"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Global parcel firm UPS says it has almost completed the integration of Lynx Express into its business - some two-and-a-half years ahead of schedule. It bought the Nuneaton-based firm in 2005 and had anticipated full integration taking five years. However, Jim Barber, UPS managing director for UK and Ireland, says: "If you know much about integrations of like networks - they can be fine or they can be challenging - but we have done well [to finish within this time frame]. We are near the end now you can always do things cuter or better - but my role was to make sure the customer didn't know we were integrating and I think we have done very, very well." Additionally, its Tamworth super-hub - UPS's second largest facility outside the US - will go live later this year. When Tamworth is completed UPS will have rationalised its network from five sites to three, with one Lynx hub closed earlier this year and another to follow in March. The Tamworth site has the potential for a rail connection, but Barber says the rail freight market is too unreliable: "If they ever get the service levels right and connect it to Europe then it's possible [we would use it] Roadtransport.com</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BleedBrown, post: 313685, member: 10340"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Global parcel firm UPS says it has almost completed the integration of Lynx Express into its business - some two-and-a-half years ahead of schedule. It bought the Nuneaton-based firm in 2005 and had anticipated full integration taking five years. However, Jim Barber, UPS managing director for UK and Ireland, says: "If you know much about integrations of like networks - they can be fine or they can be challenging - but we have done well [to finish within this time frame]. We are near the end now you can always do things cuter or better - but my role was to make sure the customer didn't know we were integrating and I think we have done very, very well." Additionally, its Tamworth super-hub - UPS's second largest facility outside the US - will go live later this year. When Tamworth is completed UPS will have rationalised its network from five sites to three, with one Lynx hub closed earlier this year and another to follow in March. The Tamworth site has the potential for a rail connection, but Barber says the rail freight market is too unreliable: "If they ever get the service levels right and connect it to Europe then it's possible [we would use it] Roadtransport.com [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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