Having taken its partnership with the Royal Mail to a fresh stage earlier this Twelve months, Glasgow Prestwick Airport (GPA) is having a gaze to capitalise on the e-commerce boost with an providing of bound and effectivity by its congestion-free atmosphere.
“The partnership with Royal Mail is transformational for our operations. We’ve been working closely with them, even working night and holiday trials over the past couple of years, which has supreme strengthened our collaboration,” GPA’s Operations Director Jules Matteoni, mentioned.
“We behold mountainous boost doubtless in e-commerce. Our approach is to land the predominant mammoth opportunity and manufacture from there. We’re pragmatic about our boost—we don’t prefer to overextend ourselves and fail to ship. However after we indicate our functionality with this first partnership, we request others to practice rapid. We enjoy a 5-Twelve months thought that involves growing our products and services and hiring more workers to cope with growing volumes.”
Infrastructure toughen
GPA has made foremost investments in fresh months, not only in gear nonetheless additionally in its teams. Hump is considerable in e-commerce, so the airport has been preparing workers to cope with cargo more successfully and introducing fresh cargo dollies, which is ready to extra bound up the transition from airplane to truck and indirectly to Royal Mail.
“We now enjoy a gargantuan warehouse at Prestwick dedicated to this partnership, allowing us to break down freight rapid and successfully. This setup will allow us to circulate cargo from airplane to truck internal minutes, guaranteeing rapid provide,” Matteoni explained.
“Our space is supreme for speedy distribution across the UK. We’ve proven this in our trials, the place we managed to dump a total airplane and revel in the predominant truck on the boulevard internal quarter-hour.
“This truck used to be in London the next day. Our boulevard network and the proximity of our products and services indicate we can provide rapid, reliable provider, which is considerable within the e-commerce sector the place margins are tight.”
Future opportunity
Whereas GPA’s fresh focal point is on getting this partnership appropriate form, the airport is easy that it is originate to exploring other opportunities. The group on the hub behold it as a gateway with a form of doubtless, and in say that they’re assured that more partnerships will earn, in particular after showcasing their capabilities at this tournament.
“Our partnership with Royal Mail vastly enhances the tip-to-dwell visibility of packages. When we hand over the products to Royal Mail, they lift their trip in developed tracking technology, providing clients with reliable, trusty-time updates on their shipments. This stage of transparency and reliability is something many e-commerce operators haven’t had earn admission to to earlier than, and it’s a key energy of this partnership.” Matteoni explained.
