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Deutsche Post World Net seeks patent for GoGreen

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post World Net has filed for a patent for its GoGreen concept. The aim of the concept is to offer carbon-neutral shipping for DHL products for business and private customers, in order to cut CO 2 emissions. All CO 2 emissions generated in the transportation of GoGreen small parcels and packages are first calculated and then compensated for in the system. This compensation can be achieved through environmental protection projects and activities. As part of its environmental efforts, Deutsche Post World Net has introduced a system of carbon management within the Group. The system is comparable to the credit and debit system in financial banking; this carbon management process tracks the CO 2 emissions of GoGreen packages offsetting them against environmental protection projects.

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DHL Express appoints business development manager for Jordan

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

DHL Express, the express and logistics company has announced the appointment of Yazan Tayem as Business Development Manager for Jordan.
Tayem will manage the tactical development of new business and maintenance of existing businesses in line with DHL’s profitability and growth targets. In addition, he will be responsible for executing the development and implementation of marketing plans in close collaboration with the Country Marketing Team, helping to play a key role in enhancing the market share for DHL Express in Jordan.
‘We are delighted to welcome Yazan Tayem as our new Business Development Manager; Yazan brings over five years experience from DHL UAE as Customer Service and Territory Manager. He has the drive, skills and commitment necessary for his current position at DHL Jordan, and the challenge of taking it to the next level of success,’ said Nael Attiyat, Commercial Manager, DHL Express Jordan

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EU clears 2.4 bln eur aid for Poste Italiane, but opens new inquiry

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

The European Commission has cleared 2.4 bln eur in aid given by the Italian government to postal service provider Poste Italiane between 2000 and 2005, but simultaneously opened a new inquiry into interest rates applied to current accounts from 2005.

Commenting on the aid, the EU executive said the government was ‘fulfilling its public service obligations’.

However, the commission also opened an investigation into the high level of interest rates, financed by the government, applied to customers’ current account funds from 2005.

Funds collected from the current accounts are deposited with the Italian treasury.

The commission said the higher interest rates give Poste Italiane an economic advantage and so potentially distort competition and trade.

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Japan Post, Lawson to start joint delivery from October

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

Japan Post and major convenience store chain Lawson Inc. said Tuesday they will start delivering each other’s items, such as mail and merchandise like boxed meals and drinks, from October in Kochi Prefecture.

The two firms said their cooperation is aimed at cutting distribution costs and is part of their environmental measures as the joint delivery will enable the firms to reduce the number of necessary trucks.

As the first step, the two firms will start the joint delivery in some areas in Kochi Prefecture for about a year on a trial basis, with an eye on expanding the areas in the future.

Japan Post and Lawson estimate the joint operation can cut their distribution costs by about 20 percent.

For the joint operation, the two firms will use refrigerating trucks to deliver merchandise from Lawson’s distribution centers to the company’s convenience stores as well as mail from base post offices to smaller post offices.

When coming back, the trucks will carry mail and empty cases of merchandise.

The two firms plan to run two services of the joint delivery per day.

For convenience store chains eyeing opening outlets in rural areas, how to cut distribution costs has been an important issue to resolve.

Lawson is now considering setting up new outlets utilizing the joint delivery system.

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Deutsche Bahn sees future in global freight, logistics arena

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

Germany might be a country far, far away for most Chinese, but many warehouses and trucks in China’s large cities bear the DB logo of Germany’s state-owned railway operator, Deutsche Bahn AG.

Handling and transporting goods from all over the world is developing into an increasingly important business for the conglomerate.

With the acquisition of the US logistics company Bax Global at the end of last year, the transport firm Schenker, a Deutsche Bahn sister company, has ascended to the top of international freight forwarders and is expected to consolidate its position not only in China.

For Deutsche Bahn chief executive Hartmut Mehdorn, expectations for growth in this transport sector are high and crucial for the company’s planned stock-exchange listing.

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DHL strike threat widens after jobs move

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

DHL, the German company which is set to take over a multibillion-pound part of the National Health Service, was facing a strike yesterday by up to 5,000 employees in Britain who allege that management is behaving like “Victorian mill owners”.

The parcels company was accused of planning to dismiss 3,000 permanent staff to replace them with 2,500 casual workers in a move that would mean DHL did not have to make national insurance payments.

While ministers havetried to assure NHS workers being switched to DHL that the company was a good employer, unions claimed yesterday it was involved in a “race to the bottom” in terms of employment standards.

News of the strike threat at DHL Express came before a second 24-hour stoppage, starting tonight, by members of the public service union Unison at NHS Logistics, who are protesting at the takeover by the German group. The walkout coincides with a debate on the health service at the Labour Party conference in Manchester.

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FedEx upgrades aging Boeing fleet

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. will spend USD2.6 billion to buy and upgrade nearly 90 Boeing 757-200s to replace its aging fleet of Boeing 727s.
The aircraft will begin flying between 2008 and 2016, the Memphis-based shipping company said Monday. The 757s have 20 per cent greater cargo capacity and use less fuel, the company said.
The larger, more fuel-efficient aircraft will decrease spending on fuel and reduce pollution and airport noise, the company said.
The company said it hadn’t yet reached agreements to acquire the planes.

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