TNT extends Asian road services into Cambodia

Business Times
http://www.btimes.com.my

2009/05/11

DUTCH logistics group TNT NV has extended its scheduled road services in Asia called Asia Road Network (ARN) into Cambodia, adding more than 1,500km to an existing 6,000km running from Singapore to Thailand to China.

The new service is available from today, initially in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

"Via TNT's road hub in the city, the ARN connects seamlessly to TNT's nationwide domestic network across Cambodia and then on to Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City," TNT Asia regional managing director Onno Boots said in a statement last week.

The ARN will boost the connectivity of Cambodia to the rest of Southeast Asia, China and Europe through its recently-expanded integrated air and road regional hub in Singapore.

Boots said customers can also look forward to cost-savings of up to 30 per cent when they use the ARN as opposed to airlifting out of Cambodia.

Transportation by road with TNT is also on average three times faster than shipping.

"As the country rapidly develops and as more traditional markets mature, Cambodia will increasingly become an important trade partner for Malaysia. The extension of the TNT ARN will boost the growth of the currently low but growing trade flows and investment between the two countries," said TNT Express Worldwide (M) Sdn Bhd managing director for Malaysia and Brunei, Gerry Power.

Launched at the end of 2005, the ARN today operates in 127 cities across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and China through an integrated, door-to-door road service.

Boasting a real-time Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) tracking of TNT's container trucks, TNT has seen a strong double-digit growth in overall volumes transported on the ARN in the last six months.

The growth has been largely driven by customers moving high-value and time-sensitive goods in the high-tech, healthcare and equipment and machinery sectors.