Adrian Brown, Gleaner Writer
Earline Parsons, Sprint Box operations manager, smiles with Delroy Stennett, executive director of Door to Door International Services, after signing a collaboration agreement yeaterday at Door to Door's Newport West office. - JUNIOR DOWIE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
COURIERS SPRINT Box Company Ltd. and Door to Door International Services Ltd. have agreed to work together in providing freight forwarding and shipping services.
Sprint Box, a Trinidad-based company, saw a need for a Jamaican ally to serve this market. The agreement with Door to Door was signed at their offices in Newport West this week and saw the beginning of Door to Door's operations in the wider Caribbean market, in addition to existing operations in the United States and Europe.
Door to Door's executive director, Delroy Stennett, said using its service will costs as much as US30 cents per ounce less than their nearest competitor.
PROBLEM SOLVING
"Door to Door came out of the need of clients who wanted seamless movement in terms of their export and import cargo," Mr. Cristopher Kennedy, co-executive director at Door to Door, stated. "They want to go to one person who would solve their problem of moving their goods from suppliers ... and have it delivered to your door."
The company thus aims to eliminate the hassles associated with freight shipping. It helps that customers are also afforded the luxury of tracking the delivery of their product online.
Mr. Stennett says the company is able to provide products at the currently low rates, because of its efforts in negotiating deals with airlines and other parties involved in the process of transporting these products.
"You have to have knowledgeable people," Mr. Kennedy said. Staff need to be familiar with the various applicable rates, and also be able to work with international carriers by establishing strategic alliances with them.
Operations manager of Sprint Box, Earline Parsons, explained that their launch into the wider Caribbean came after they were asked by a United States manufacturing company to provide drop centres in Trinidad and subsequently the Caribbean. She then sought individuals in other islands who shared their goals.
"Coming into Jamaica, we saw that not only was there a market, but a need for the type of service we provide at the type of rates that we can offer, and so we have launched Sprint Box services here," she said.
