Express Transport

Express transport and its actors, the "expressists", consists in the delivery of small packages and parcel, in a limited duration from a point A (place of load decided by the carrier and not by the customer) to a point B (place of delivery).
The main characteristics are of this type of transport are the speed of delivery as well as the ease of transport. It is rarely a "door-to-door" transport, contrary to the custom-made transport (or ad hoc). Most of the time, this type of transport begins in the warehouse up to the point of reception of the customer. Besides, this type of transport does not take into account the last kilometer, which is under the responsibility of the customer and not of the deliverer.
General Uses
Express transport is an activity coming from the messaging market. With the technological and
industrial evolutions, customers requirements have developed the offer towards a faster delivery. So, the reduction of delivery deadlines has created this new type of market.
Express transport companies try to differ by their down-market positioning (it is the cheapest a customer can get with decent delivery deadlines) including a more and more wide side services range. These side services include for example information feedbacks, proofs of delivery, insurances, custom clearances, the specific packaging or the value-added services such as the IT maintenance.
The national express deliveries mean the domestic market, shipments achieved in unique country. In terms of guaranteed deadlines on the national express deliveries market, professionals distinguish two express categories of transport:
* Real express transport, which means sendings delivered the next day before 1 pm
* Economic express transport, which means the sendings delivered the next day before 6 pm. According to certain operators, this segment can include rush courier services
There are differences of delay for national express deliveries regarding the various operators. The delivery market is segmented according to these deadlines:
* Deliveries before 10 am (including parcel delivered at night, the next day before 9 am and before 10 am)
* Deliveries before 1 pm (including parcel delivered the next day before 12 am and before 1 pm)
* Deliveries before 6 pm (including parcel delivered the next day before 6 pm)
The express transport size includes monoparcel and multiparce deliveries with the express transport deadlines. We segmented the market of express transport according to the following categories of parcel:
* Light parcel, up to 30 kg
* Any weight parcel, superior to 30 kg
The delivery of a parcel using express transport is divided into six phases, including the pick-up of the parcel at the customer's place, grouping by road to the local recycling center, transport by plane or truck to the French main sorting center or European, sorting by destination and treatment of clearance services, the delivery of parcels by air or by truck center of local sorting and delivery by road to the recipient.
Actors
* Integrators are global carriers that incorporate the whole transport. They manage all means of transport and the customs, freight and mail traffic.
* The operator is a generic term for a provider that offers express transportation product.
* It may also be used to designate a mail carrier.
* A expressist means a company that offers a service of express transport.
* The renting man is an independent artisan offering transport services. He works on his own and has its own fleet of vehicles.
* The breaking load is the transfer which is made of a property, from one mode to another.
Terms associated techniques
* The tracing means monitoring and identification of all computer shipments throughout the storage process and delivery of the goods.
* A groupage platform is a platform where the goods are consolidated for group transport.
* Bundling refers to the meeting of various goods at more recipients, carried by a single provider.
* The hub or network corresponds to the organization of star grouping platforms / unbundling used by providers.
* The tracking is monitoring in real time, information related to the physical flow of goods.
Examples
Two examples of express transport companies are FedEx and UPS.

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