Betekenis van:
mail train

mail train
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • trein voor vervoer van post
  • a train that carries mail

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Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. Robbers wrecked the mail train.
  2. The mail train lost most of its mail in the fire.
  3. Sernam may develop only its activities to carry mail by railway in accordance with the Train Bloc Express (TBE) concept.
  4. The French authorities indicate that in January 2003 Sernam merged its traditional mail and express mail transport plans into a single ‘express’ road [32] transport plan [33] based on Train Bloc Express (TBE).
  5. The Train Bloc Express or ‘TBE’ concept: Train Bloc Express or TBE [37] is a shuttle train running at high speed according to a fixed time schedule and with a fixed number of wagons dedicated to the transport of traditional mail and especially express mail, which forms part of a service project that simultaneously offers Quality, Reliability, Security, Speed (160 km/h on conventional lines, 200 km/h on HST lines) and allows late collection (hence better groupage).
  6. The French authorities indicate that in January 2003 Sernam merged its traditional mail and express mail transport plans into a single ‘express’ road [32] transport plan [33] based on Train Bloc Express (TBE). Thanks to this transport plan, Sernam is now properly equipped to focus purely on express services and on delivering all products with express quality service (Cliq certification, [34] which guarantees the security, reliability, timing and traceability of the packages carried) even though only about one third reportedly constitutes a genuine express mail service.
  7. Since then, Sernam has developed a new railway transport concept known as ‘Train Bloc Express’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘TBE’) which is used as the key element in transporting traditional and express mail flows over distances exceeding 400 km including the transport of SNCF customer baggage and the transport of newspapers between the Paris region and southern France.
  8. Moreover, France has complied with the Sernam 1 decision with regard to the number of closures of Sernam’s sorting centres and their reorganisation, employee training, development in terms of staff reduction, phasing in a new transport plan, switching computer systems to those of Geodis, reducing turnover by 18% between 2000 and 2005, non-replacement by the State of the €67 million which Geodis will not provide to Sernam, changeover from Sernam’s traditional mail activities to express mail services, and in particular the changeover to an innovative service in railway transport focusing on the new combination of “range of express services” and “Train Bloc Express (TBE)” which occupies a new market segment whose full potential remains to be developed.
  9. For all of its activities, Sernam has made use essentially of transport by road (lorries). The carriage of parcels by conventional railways was abandoned with the introduction of the new transport plan mentioned in the restructuring plan. Since then, Sernam has developed a new railway transport concept known as ‘Train Bloc Express’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘TBE’) which is used as the key element in transporting traditional and express mail flows over distances exceeding 400 km including the transport of SNCF customer baggage and the transport of newspapers between the Paris region and southern France.