Showing posts with label Paralympic Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paralympic Games. Show all posts

Monday, 30 July 2012

UPS delivers 400 tons of broadcasting equipment to Olympics media centre

The Olympics official logistics partner, UPS, has made its final delivery of media equipment to the International Broadcast Centre (IBC). The venue near the Olympic Park is going to be a 24-hour home to 21,000 accredited journalists, photographers and camera crews from all over the world.

UPS courier services delivered a total of 400 tons of television broadcasting equipment to the IBC. That includes 60,000 pieces of equipment and cables with a joined length of 560,000 metres. Thanks to the carrier, television, radio and internet broadcasters stationed at the IBC will be now able to communicate with an audience of over 4.8 billion people over the entire duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

UPS also reported that a high street with merchandise shops, cafés and dry cleaning services was built only for the media but will be converted for future retail purposes after end of the Games.


Image c/o shdlogistics.com

If you are waiting for a parcel delivery by UPS or another carrier or are unsure about transit times, delays etc., check back with our Olympics Postcode Finder.

Source: Analytiqa.com

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

DPD Action Plan for Olympic Games 2012

olympic gamesToday, the courier service, DPD, announced its action plan for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 in London. 

Its Olympics Project Team has developed a detailed plan responding to the increase demand of parcel deliveries during the Olympic Games as well as to the possibly large scale of congestion.
 
The DPD action plan is aimed at ensuring on-time deliveries / collections throughout this summer and looks as follows:

  • additional facility to open near London Bridge DPD depot
  • increased number of routes in operation
  • assistants hired to support DPD drivers with on-foot parcel deliveries
  • early AM as well as late PM deliveries to be scheduled
  • increased number of customer service / hotline staff
  • coordination of events to carried out by DPD Olympic Specialist
  • daily updates for London

Please note that certain venues will not be accessible. For more details, please refer to the DPD lockdown venues list.



Source: DPD