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DHL introduces first mailbox for parcels

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

Starting today, DHL is introducing 40 Paketboxes in and around Frankfurt/Main. Here, customers can drop off their postage-paid small packages and parcels up to 20 kilograms around the clock without having to register beforehand.

The yellow Paketboxes, about one-and-a-half-meters high, can be found in heavily frequented locations and represent an additional service from the Post subsidiary that customers can use independently from retail outlet business hours. After a successful test phase, the Paketboxes will be introduced across the country.

“With the Paketbox, we are expanding the service for our private customers with an interesting alternative and demonstrate once again why DHL is the leader in the express and logistics market,” said Boris Mayer, marketing manager for private customer business at the Post subsidiary DHL Express Germany.

DHL is introducing 40 Paketboxes in and around Frankfurt/Main
The Paketboxes accept small packages and parcels up to 60 x 40 x 40 centimeters in size and will be emptied once a day Monday through Saturday – if necessary, even several times a day.

“The new boxes are not competing with the Packstations,” Mayer emphasized. Customers can not only deposit their shipments 24 hours a day at over 700 Packstations across the country, they can also pick up their shipments there and buy postage for small packages and parcels as well.

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Home Delivery of Rail Tickets from September 6 in Pakistan

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

Pakistan Railway Advisory and Consultancy Services (Pracs) has taken a revolutionary step initiating ‘home delivery’ of reservation tickets from September 6, 2006.

Initially, the home delivery facility is being provided in four cities of Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi/Islamabad and Faisalabad and it will be expanded to other cities later. Under the system devised, an intending railway traveller could have his seat/seats reserved on one telephone call for a train 24 hours prior to its departure. Once the seat is reserved, the ticket will be delivered to the passenger at his home address through Pracs courier. Pracs Managing Director, Mohammed Ashfaq Khattak, told APP on Monday that home delivery service will save the people living in distanced areas from visiting railway reservation offices, which consume much of time and then queuing up outside the reservation counter to get a ticket.

He said that for this ‘big service’ the Pracs would charge only Rs20 per ticket delivered within the municipal limit and Rs30 per ticket beyond the specified limit like Landhi and Hawks Bay in Karachi.

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TNT Logistics UK To Manage Home Delivery Services for Tesco Direct

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

TNT Logistics UK, a unit of Dutch mail and express deliveries group TNT NV, will manage the home delivery services of the recently launched Tesco Direct business of UK retailer Tesco Plc., TNT said on September 5, 2006.

Financial aspects of the deal were not disclosed.

Under the five-year contract between the two companies, TNT will run Tesco’s logistics operations from the new National Distribution Centre in Crewe, in the UK. TNT will also use six home delivery platforms between Glasgow and Exeter.

A total of 200 employees of TNT will be responsible for Tesco Direct home delivery.

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Army awards UPS, FedEX contracts

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

The Army has awarded multimillion dollar delivery orders to UPS Inc., and FedEx Corp. to support the Defense Logistics Agency’s surface small package program.
UPS, also known as United Parcel Service, was awarded a delivery order worth more than USD 13 million as part of a USD 51.4 million contract to support DLA’s small package program.

FedEx was awarded a delivery order worth nearly USD 11.5 million as part of a USD 48.2 million contract to support the same program.

Work under both deals, which were announced late Friday, is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2007.

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US FedEx completes USD 780 million buy of Watkins Motor Lines

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. has completed its purchase of private trucking company Watkins Motor Lines, adding long-haul services to its freight portfolio.

The Memphis, Tenn.-based package delivery company announced in May it would buy Lakeland, Fla.-based Watkins, a long-haul, less-than-truckload (LTL) business, for USD 780 million in cash.

Watkins has about USD 1 billion in annual revenue. FedEx’s LTL division, FedEx Freight, had revenue of about USD 3.6 billion last year.

The operations of Watkins Motor Lines and Watkins Canada Express, Watkins’ LTL carrier in Canada, will be rebranded as FedEx National LTL and FedEx Freight Canada, respectively, according to a news release.

FedEx rival United Parcel Service Inc. added LTL services last year with the acquisition of Overnite Transport for USD 1.25 billion. Overnite has been rebranded as UPS Freight.

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US FedEx donates USD 1M to Martin Luther King memorial

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. announced Tuesday it is donating USD 1 million to help build a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Gina Adams, vice president of government affairs for Memphis-based FedEx Corp., will join Harry E. Johnson, president and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation Inc., and Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Tuesday night to announce FedEx’s contribution in a Washington event.
Other companies, including General Motors, General Electric Co., and Exxon Mobil, have contributed to the memorial, according to the FedEx release. To date, the Memorial Foundation has raised USD 64 million of the USD 100 million needed to build and maintain the memorial.
“Dr. King will be the first man of color to be memorialized among past presidents and war heroes,” Ford said in a statement.

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Room for SMEs in logistics

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

With the growing affluence in Asia on the demand side and the emergence of China and India as the world’s factories on the supply side, Singapore’s strategic location puts it in good stead to become a regional distribution centre.

And this spells boom time for the logistics industry. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the industry can grab a slice of the growing pie, as long as they are innovative and carve a niche for themselves, say industry players.

The logistics industry is one of Singapore’s oldest industries, growing in tandem with the country’s development from a trading port into one of the world’s busiest trans-shipment hubs today.

According to Drewry Shipping Consultants, a London-based shipping consultancy firm, the world’s top 10 operators control 53 per cent of container traffic. Singapore is the world’s busiest container port, handling 23.2 million TEUs last year. It is also Asia’s fourth largest cargo airport, handling 1.83 million tonnes of air cargo last year.

With SMEs making up more than 90 per cent of the 6,300 logistics establishments in Singapore and employing about 60 per cent of the logistics workforce here, they are a key pillar of the logistics industry. And while they are competing against the likes of DHL and UPS, SMEs here should be able to hold their own if they are able to differentiate themselves, as shown by some of their counterparts which have gone into niche segments or are offering customised services.

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Belgium's La Poste Purchases Oxygen's Electric Scooters

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

De Post-La Poste, the national postal company of Belgium, and Oxygen, an Italian manufacturer of light electric vehicles, have signed a two-year contract for the supply of electric scooters. The first set of 50 Oxygen scooters will be tested by the Belgian post operator over the next six months, after which La Poste will decide on the further integration of the “Postscooter” within the La Poste fleet. The Postscooter will enable the fleet of La Poste to deliver mail door-to-door on a daily basis (currently about a 5,000-scooter fleet).

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