TNT launches iConnections facility worldwide<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Global delivery company TNT Express launched
\nworldwide on Thursday its iConnections facility, allowing on-line
\nbusinesses to offer customers or shoppers full access via their
\nwebsites to a global door-to-door delivery network database.<\/p>\n
Through the iConnections facility, on-line shoppers can check
\nthe cost of shipping their purchased goods via TNT or track the
\nmovement of orders around the clock.<\/p>\n
\"With iConnections our customers can now offer end-users the
\nwhole range of TNT services,\" said Colin Moran, director of PT
\nSkypak International, which represents TNT in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
\"Time-consuming activities such as phone calls or shipment
\nrequests between the end-user, the vendor and TNT are eliminated.
\nOur new iConnections software enables the vendor's IT system to
\ncommunicate back and forth around the clock with the TNT globally
\nintegrated central computer system that has recently been
\nupgraded to handle 1.3 billion instructions per second,\" he said.<\/p>\n
In developing the iConnections facility, TNT is the first
\nexpress delivery company to use the Extensible Markup Language
\n(XML), a new Internet language that enables organizations to
\nexchange information from one server to another over the
\nInternet.<\/p>\n
In addition, TNT also launched a wireless application protocol
\n(WAP) tracking facility that enables TNT customers to track their
\nconsignments via their mobile phone or other wireless device.<\/p>\n
TNT Express is a subsidiary of TNT Post Group N.V., a publicly
\nlisted company headquartered in Amsterdam employing more than
\n115,000 people and serving over 200 countries. The company had
\nsales of 8.5 billion euros in 1999.<\/p>\n
TNT started operation in Indonesia in 1979. Currently it has
\nmore than 400 employees and 21 branch offices.<\/p>\n
Moran said TNT's local operation planned to open a new office
\nbranch on Batam island before the end of this year, and 12 new
\noffices in various cities next year.<\/p>\n
He added that the company was in the process of discussions
\nwith Indonesian airline companies to hire aircraft for
\ntransporting TNT packages overseas. He declined to name the
\nairlines.<\/p>\n
He said that another option was for TNT's own aircraft to
\nresume flights to Indonesia.<\/p>\n
The domestic business volume of TNT's Indonesian operation
\namounts to 3,000 shipments per month, while international
\nshipments reach 12,000 per week.<\/p>\n
The Indonesian operation is TNT's third highest revenue
\ncontributor in Asia after China and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Colin said TNT's business volume in Indonesia was projected to
\ngrow by about 15 percent next year, but declined to disclose the
\ncompany's estimated turnover for this year from its Indonesian
\noperation. (rei)<\/p>",
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