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Pall-Ex posts 500 PoD sets

Posted by | Mar 21, 2006 | |

Rivalry among pallet networks is set to focus sharply on IT, with news that Pall-Ex is sending out 500 tracking and electronic proof-of-delivery sets to drivers this week. Pall-Ex owner Hilary Devey says that the network will give customers nationwide coverage by the end of November at the latest, with all collection and delivery vehicles using the devices. This will give Pall-Ex a lead in the market – but Devey expects rivals to respond before long with their own variations on the theme.

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Couriers have high-speed connection – interview with eCourier owners

Posted by | Mar 20, 2006 | |

Up until a few years ago, university friends Tom Allason and Jay Bregman knew little about the courier business except that they could probably do a better job.

Mr Allason decided to act when, stuck in meetings at work, he arranged to have some tickets for that day’s play at Queens Tennis Club biked over to some friends.

The courier not only arrived late and delivered the tickets to the wrong person, but Mr Allason found the person arranging the booking had little clue about where his precious cargo was until it was too late.

“It wasn’t so much that I didn’t know what was going on, but that they didn’t either,” Mr Allason recalls. “I decided enough was enough and set about trying to provide a better solution by myself.”

The answer he and Mr Bregman hit upon was to create the world’s first online same-day delivery business, called eCourier.

Each of eCourier’s van drivers and bike riders log in for work on handheld computers, equipped with a global positioning system so they can be tracked throughout their shift.

At the heart of the business, however, is a software system that can do the work of an army of regular courier administration staff, accepting bookings and allocating jobs to available drivers according to their GPSlocation.

The data the system gathers can be used to compute who is the best rider for a job, their estimated time of delivery and their exact progress on a map.

This information is then shared with customers, who can see the exact position of each of their jobs by logging on to eCourier’s website.

After just 19 months of operations, eCourier is handling 15,000 deliveries a month for some of London’s largest investment banks, law firms and retailers.

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Sagawa Express establishes holding company

Posted by | Mar 20, 2006 | |

Sagawa Express Co. on Tuesday established a holding company, SG Holdings Co., to have the holding firm focus on the management of its group companies, thereby speeding up the core company’s decision-making process.

SG Holdings is capitalized at 11.2 billion yen. Sagawa Express President Eiichi Kuriwada doubles as its president.

Sagawa Express will transfer its shares to SG Holdings to become its wholly owned subsidiary. The shares of affiliate companies that are owned by Sagawa Express will also be transferred to the holding company by around June.

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Deutsche Post sees steady revenues after German mail monopoly ends in 2007

Posted by | Mar 20, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG board member Hans-Dieter Petram told Focus magazine he expects revenue at its mail division to remain steady after it loses its monopoly status in Germany at the end of 2007. ‘We earn 2.0 bln eur at our domestic and foreign operations annually, and that isn’t going to change when the monopoly expires; we are the best mail company in the world,’ Petram told the newspaper.
Earlier, Deutsche Post said revenues would decline 10-20 pct after the monopoly expires. However, Petram stressed that Deutsche Post prefers to err on the side of caution, calling that forecast ‘a worst-case scenario.’

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Hongkong Post chief credits his staff for the growing profits after reversing five years of deficits

Posted by | Mar 20, 2006 | |

Postmaster-General Allan Chiang Yam-wang knows just how important it is to deliver messages on time – not just the mail, but also corporate news to staff. When Mr Chiang took the helm in 2003, he was faced with a sea of red – Hongkong Post’s five consecutive years of losses. While he was there to make decisions, he realised that the staff needed to know what the financial position was with the post office. “We had not done enough in linking people in the past,” said Mr Chiang, who defined the interaction between his staff and the public as a way of linking people. And all the hard work is paying off, with the post office posting a 225 million dollars profit in the last financial year – up 1,223 per cent on the 17 million dollars profit of 2004, ending five years of deficits.

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