May 2010 - Association of Dutch Businessmen

Events
Lim Hui Ject, Sales & Marketing director Singapore took
over from Karel and told more about TNT Singapore. TNT was
established in Singapore in 1974. Currently, it has over 550
employees spread over 6 locations. Singapore is the regional
distribution hub due to it’s strategic location in the region and
great connectivity to all off the countries in the region. This
means that all documents, parcels and pieces from Europe and
America go first to Singapore and are then transported by air or
road to any country in Asia/Pacific. The benefit of this approach
is shorter order lead time, lower transportation cost, no breaks
in the cold chain and in the end, greater customer satisfaction.
To make this all possible, TNT has several warehouses in
Singapore.
After the talk of Lim Hui and Karel, we visited the different
warehouses in small groups.
31 December 2009
Vehicles 30,061*
Aircraft 48*
Mail depots / hubs 456
Express depots / hubs 2,409
Mail retail outlets in the Netherlands 2,370
Countries with company-owned operations 64
Countries served by Express 200
Employees 159,663
Addressed postal items in the Netherlands 4,473,000,000
- per delivery address 568
- per delivery day 14,600,000
Express total tonnes carried 7,695,844
Express total consignments carried 230,635,000
* A substantial number of vehicles are not owned by TNT, but are leased or
subcontracted.
TNT recognises its social responsibility and has formed
partnerships with the United Nations World Food Programme
and the United Nations Environment Programme to fight
hunger and pollution in the world. These efforts are being
recognised: in 2008, TNT again reached the highest score of all
companies included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. It
also leads the carbon intensive sector in the Carbon Disclosure
Project.