Amtrak Express Parcels, the UK parcels carrier, said that it has increased its turnover of GBP100 million following the successful integration of Nightspeed, the overnight parcel carrier that
it acquired in 2005. With the amalgamation of all of Nightspeed’s depots into an expanded Amtraknetwork, it is the first time in the UK that two parcel networks have been integrated.The expanded Amtrak business now incorporates 25 former Nightspeed locations with a 100-strongdepot network. The integration has enabled Amtrak to re-structure its network to improve regionalcoverage and better serve customers, including a number of new regional depots and a new North Westof England hub to handle extra capacity. The Amtrak commercial vehicle fleet has also been expandedand now includes 2000 delivery vans.
The acquisition of Nightspeed has boosted Amtrak’s presence in a number of key business tobusiness sectors. This has given Amtrak extra volume which compliments Amtrak’s home deliveryservices. Amtrak has retained the Nightspeed name for specialist services not previously offered byAmtrak, including Nightspeed Secure Express the high security overnight delivery service.
“This is the first time two UK parcel networks have been fully integrated. We could have takenan easier route but we wanted to create a bigger and stronger business by building on Nightspeed’sstrengths,” commented Jonathan Smith, Amtrak’s CEO. “Now that the integration is complete, we cancapitalise on the business potential that was so evident at acquisition. The integration has notonly given us a boost in capacity and an increase in volumes, but also entry into some appealingnew markets such as high security express services and government mail”.
