Nightfreight wins Argos contract
Nightfreight has won a contract from Argos for the delivery of over 48,000 consignments of garden furniture out of its distribution centre in Stafford to customers throughout the UK.
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NZ Post to shutdown eBill service
New Zealand Post‘s electronic payment service eBill will be withdrawn from 24 July 2006. The last date users will be able to receive new electronic bills via eBill will be 12 June 2006 and the last date to make any payments via eBill is 10 July 2006. The relevant organisation(s) that send electronic bills and receive payments via eBill will be in contact with users directly to advise what other payment options they offer.
Read MoreUS transportation infrastructure failing the nation, says UPS CEO
Describing the nation’s roads, ports, railroads and airports as the backbone of global trade, UPS’s chief executive officer today warned that America was taking a chance with its future by neglecting its infrastructure. “What’s shocking, quite frankly, is the inability of our transportation infrastructure to keep up with the normal day-to-day stresses imposed upon it,” said UPS CEO Mike Eskew. “Our highways, waterways, railroads and aviation networks are simply not keeping up with ordinary demands. Eskew, in addressing the Houston Forum, said business leaders had to help Americans understand that their jobs and standard of living depend on a US economy that today depends on global trade. People may not like to build new roads or add runways to airports, but the American economy risks stagnation without continued investment and infrastructure expansion, he said.
Read MoreDHL Appoints EVP for US Network
Package shipping firm DHL Express Americas named Charles Brewer, a longtime company executive overseas, as executive vice president of U.S. air products and services in an effort to help bolster its ailing U.S. business. DHL said Brewer has been with the company 21 years, recently managed its operations in Malaysia and also held senior jobs in the Asia-Pacific region and the United Kingdom. Express Joint CEO John Mullen said Brewer brings to his U.S. position “a track record of success at DHL in markets overseas.” Parent Deutsche Post recently said its fourth-quarter earnings were weighed down by DHL’s U.S. performance, where the express operation that was ramping up against market leaders FedEx and UPS lost customers after merging two separate air hubs last September into its Wilmington, Ohio, facility. DHL subsequently said it will directly take control of the inter-city trucking operations that were formerly managed by ABX Air, the company that provides most airplanes used by DHL Express and operates its package-sort hubs.
Read MoreDHL to enter Argentina logistics segment
DHL, the Argentinian filial of the German group and one of four firms operating international mail systems in Argentina (along with Holland’s TNT and the US pair FedEx and UPS), is now to enter the logistics sector in Argentina. The national filial will post a turnover of US$40mil in 2006 – up by 20% on 2005 – and will focus on the door-to-door solutions niche: it hopes to attain a 20percent share of the segment in two years, the segment moving USD50mil annually overall. The firm will invest USD2mil in starting up in this area nationally and USD1.7mil in the international implications.
DHL ranks top of the courier exports charts with 50percent of the pie (in terms of kilos carried). It employs 527 people in Argentina.
Read MoreDHL opens new facility in Tarragona, Spain
DHL Express has opened a new €3.8 million centre in Tarragona, south of Barcelona, offering national and international road, sea and air services. The new facility replaces an older property whose capacity was no longer sufficient to handle growing volumes.
Read MoreDutch TNT completes 83.5 pct of share buyback
TNT NV has completed 83.5 pct of its share buyback programme, the company said on March 29, 2006. TNT plans to cancel the repurchased shares. The company announced in December 2005 its plans to buy back own shares for 1.0 bln euro (USD1.2 bln). The company said then it expected the share buyback programme to involve 42.6 million shares and to take about four months. That period is now extended by one month.
Read MoreDHL Express to invest USD11 mln in door-to-door service in Argentina 2006-2011
DHL Express plans to invest USD11 mln (9.17 mln euro) between 2006 and 2011 in improving its door-to-door service in Argentina, the company said on March 28, 2006. DHL Express offers that service in Argentina only to corporate clients at present. By 2011 DHL plans to offer the service in the main 150 Argentine cities.
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