Navis Logistics Network Partners With Nationwide Delivery Systems
Navis Logistics Network, a Denver-based network of companies specializing in packaging, transportation and logistics services for hard-to-handle items, today announced it has partnered with Tampa, Fla.-based Nationwide Delivery Systems, Inc. (NDS), a one-of-a-kind moving company specializing in door-to-door pick up and delivery of antiques, collectibles, pianos and other fragile and high value items.
The alliance gives Navis a new transportation option for its customers and provides NDS with a nationwide network of local pickup and delivery agents trained in its "white glove" handling process. Items shipped with NDS are packed and handled with special materials and moving equipment and are not transferred to or stored with outside carriers. About 120 Navis franchises will offer the NDS shipping option.
"We are pleased to partner with Nationwide Delivery Systems and look forward to completing the integration of its specialized premium services and sophisticated logistics software at our franchise locations," said Marvin L. Storm, CEO of Navis. "By partnering with NDS, we are now able to offer customers throughout the United States the ultimate 'white-glove' option for shipping their fragile and hard-to-handle items," he added.
Using NDS' proprietary logistics software, Navis Pack & Ship Centers and Handle With Care Packaging Store franchises will be able to schedule the most economical and quickest routes for moving these fragile items across the country.
The Navis and NDS partnership has been piloted in Boston, where Navis' Packaging Store franchises have been accepting orders from customers for antiques and fragile items. Through this pilot, 30 East Coast Packaging Store and Navis Pack & Ship franchises are now selling the NDS service directly. Navis and NDS also partnered at a national online auction of Americana collectibles held in Des Moines, Iowa, in July, and delivered more than 250 pieces sold at the world's largest indoor antique show, Atlantique City, held bi-annually in Atlantic City, N.J. NDS has been the "mover of choice" for Atlantique City for two years.
About Nationwide Delivery Systems
Nationwide Delivery owns and operates its own trucks and warehouses and only uses quality people, specially trained as antique movers for the transportation of fragile and valuable items such as antiques, pianos, and electronics. Two specialty packers, both with clean drivers licenses, accompany each shipment. Visit http://www.nwdelivery.com for more information.
About Navis
The companies of Navis Logistics Network (Navis) specialize in packaging, transportation and logistics services for items that are difficult to ship. Navis started as a single retail store in 1980 and began expanding in 1984 by establishing franchise operations. Navis has since grown into a nationwide network of companies that dominates the difficult-to-ship sector of the logistics industry. Navis franchisees receive extensive training in handling fragile, large, awkward and valuable goods, equipping them to safely ship almost anything, virtually anywhere in the world. Our various companies serve customers in the retail, business and industrial marketplaces, providing expert solutions to shipping and logistical issues. An innovator for more than two decades, Navis continues to develop new packaging techniques and technological tools that make the shipping process easier, faster and more economical. Visit our Website at http://www.gonavis.com.