Haniel launches new Austrian service
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HANIEL International Forwarders Ltd (HIF) has launched a new Austrian service with the appointment of a new partner, Karl Herber GMBH of Vienna.
It will involve a weekly company liquidations in the articulated lorry service to freight forwarding industry Vienna which will depart from before long". the UK every Friday and arrive in Vienna on Monday.
A Tuesday departure from Vienna ensures that vehicles return to Folkestone on the following Thursday.
The Austrian operation supplements HIF's established European liner services, which include Birmingham to Dusseldorf, London to Antwerp and Brussels, London to Basle and Zurich, and London and Birmingham to Frankfurt and Stuttgart.
HIF has also forecast that "difficult trading conditions and under-capitalisation would result in increased Managing director Bob Byrne said that his own company "enjoyed the backing of a highly successful German group which had given them the freedom to expand and thereby position themselves now to take advantage of future market expansion".
The company is planning to open new offices and depots within the next two months at Manchester (air and surface) and Felixstowe, and future expansion plans include facilities at Bristol, Birmingham Airport, Newcastle and a new headquarters at Essex.