TNT Logistics signs contract with GE Plastics in Brazil
18 April 2006 - 12:15 CET
Consolidating its performance within the industrial sector, TNT Logistics Brazil signed an agreement with GE Plastics, a General Electric division. TNT Logistics is now responsible for the activities involving material handling of the client: receiving, checking, warehousing, line feeding, dispatching and invoicing in Brazil.GE Plastics' plant, located in Campinas, in the São Paulo region, is responsible for the manufacturing and commercialisation of high technology engineering plastics, plastics sheets for civil construction and thermoplastic resin, used in the production of automotive parts, medical products, among others.
The 10 warehouses now under TNT Logistics' responsibility have a total size of 15,000 square meters. The TNT Logistics team, with 29 people, manages a volume of approximately 3,500 tons per month, from the receiving of raw material to the dispatching of the finished products.
"Since 2004, TNT Logistics Brazil has increased its focus on the 'Industrial' market niche in Brazil, that covers different segments such as chemical, plastics, pulp and paper and petrochemical", said Giuseppe Chiellino, TNT Logistics South America Managing Director. "As a result, TNT Logistics now offers value added logistics solutions to important companies in this sector in the Brazilian market, such as Braskem and Votorantim Celulose e Papel (VCP). We are very happy to now add GE Plastics to these customers", adds Chiellino.
