TNT Express has announced the successful integration of its Chinese day-definite domestic road network with its Asia road network covering Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. The service, operated by its wholly-owned subsidiary TNT Hoau, is the only scheduled pan Asia day-definite road network, according to the company.

The service is designed to provide customers in China and Southeast Asia with door-to-door import and export road freight solutions. For example, a company based in Shanghai can now ship its products to Hanoi via Guangzhou (taking up to two days), and on the following day to Pingxiang, on the border with Vietnam. Upon completion of customs formalities, the shipment will arrive in the Vietnamese capital that same night.

TNT Express claims that its day-definite road freight service in China is up to 50 per cent cheaper than air freight, while taking only one to three days longer to arrive at the destination. The service has been adopted by customers in the high-tech, automation and industrial manufacturing sectors.