Polish express delivery market is dominated by DHL Express, Stolica and Masterlink, which together controlled 59 pct of the market in 2003, Masterlink said.
DHL Express was the leader with a 25 pct market share, Stolica was second with a 22 pct share and Masterlink came third with 12 pct.
Read MoreTNT has been acclaimed as the best international express delivery company for the second consecutive year. The company, which has its UK headquarters in Atherstone, was named International Express Operator of the Year at the annual IFW Freighting Industry Awards. It also received the Business Improvement Award 2004.
Read MoreUPS and FedEx are going after the same road warriors, telecommuters and home office workers — but their methods are surprisingly different.
FedEx bought Kinko’s this year and plans to spend USD20 million “rebranding” its 1,256 stores with TV spots that began this month proclaiming, “Our office is your office.” UPS, which absorbed Mail Boxes Etc. two years ago, is hunting retail customers, too. But it’s using its 3,400 UPS Stores as a hook for large corporate customers to distribute high-tech parts to field technicians or collect laptop computers or cell phones in need of repairs.
Retail package shipments are vital to both companies because infrequent shippers pay higher prices. “Both companies want high-margin retail customers,” said Greg Burns, transportation analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase. “The goal is the same. But the execution is different.”
Read MoreDHL, the world’s leading express and logistics company, has enhanced its Time Definite Delivery (TDD) service across Asia and the Pacific region as demand increases for such services.
In a statement, DHL said TDD service, which offers the latest possible collection times for guaranteed early next-day deliveries, would be expanded to include declared-value packages up to a certain limit. It said TDD, which comprises of StartDay Express offering next day door-to-door delivery by 9am and MidDay Express which offers next day door-to-door delivery by noon, previously only catered to documents.
Read MoreFedEx, Asia’s No2 courier company by sales, does not expect its new Asia-Pacific hub to open for at least six years, according to depositions it made to the United States Department of Transportation at the weekend.
The company, which is courting the managers of airports in Guangzhou and the Philippines, said hurdles such as operating and customs agreements had to be overcome before construction of a “major physical plant, representing an extremely significant investment”, could begin. FedEx was responding to official queries from rival United Parcel Service (UPS) about why it had applied for more flights to Shenzhen next month under the new Sino-US air services agreement if Guangzhou was the “frontrunner” to become its Asia-Pacific hub.
Read MoreLogistics firm DHL Express has increased payload capacity on its dedicated Hong Kong-Shanghai and Hong Kong-Manila services in response to increasing demand and surging intra-Asia shipment volumes. On June 21, DHL upgraded the payload capacity of the Hong Kong-Manila service, now operated by an Airbus A330-300 passenger aircraft four times weekly, from Monday to Thursday. The A330-300 passenger aircraft has a lower deck capacity of about 20 tons in various container and pallet configurations.
On June 16, capacity on the Hong-Kong Shanghai service was also increased by 60%, and began to be operated by an Airbus A300B4 freighter with a capacity of 35 tons. The aircraft can accommodate 18 main deck pallets and up to 20 lower deck containers.
Read MoreAn Post has become embroiled in a row with its senior managers over the manner in which it is seeking to implement a restructuring plan.
Its approach was described yesterday as “off the wall” by the managers’ union representative, Mr Sean O Riordain of the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants.
The company is seeking to cut management numbers by at about a third as part of a strategic plan designed to get it back into profitability by 2006. It lost more than 40 million last year and faces a further estimated loss of 37 million in 2004.
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