DHL will increase payload capacity on its Hong Kong-Shanghai and Hong Kong-Manila services in response to increasing demand and surging intra-Asia volumes.
DHL has announced that with effect from Tuesday, capacity on the Hong Kong-Shanghai service will be increased by 60 percent and operated by an Airbus A300B4 freighter with a capacity of 35 tons.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors approved several major capital projects today at its monthly meeting.
The Board approved funding for Surface Visibility, the third phase of the Surface Air Support System (SASS). Surface Visibility is the third piece of the overall Transportation Visibility strategy. In the first phase, an infrastructure was developed to track FedEx and Amtrak shipments. In the second phase, SASS was expanded to include commercial air visibility. In this phase, the systems will track several visibility points from container loading to the unloading of both Postal Service and postal customer trailers. Wireless scanners will be used to capture data. The system will be deployed at 129 facilities.
Read MoreProposals aimed at resolving the dispute between An Post and the Irish Postmasters Union (IPU) over the opening of certain post offices on the Saturdays of bank holiday weekends have been put to the union, the High Court was told.
Read MoreRicardo Pinto, chairman of the board of the Bolivian state owned postal service Ecobol (Empresa Nacional de Correos de Bolivia), comments corruption and economic deficit have caused the collapse of the company that has a BsD8mil deficit. Ecobol has engaged in restructuring, slashing an excessive labor force, and its survival is pending upon the Mail Bill.
Read MoreThe French minister for social cohesion, Jean-Louis Borloo, has asked the French post office, La Poste, and the French mutual savings bank Caisses d’Epargne to take part in a government scheme to provide banking services to those who are currently denied them. The programme, whose details have yet to be decided, is intended to provide all French people with access to what the minister calls a minimum level of banking support. When unveiling the policy last week, he explained that five million people in France are either on a credit black list or simply do not have access to banking services.
Read MoreFewer than 50 per cent of employees of Deutsche Post, the German postal service, have subscribed to shares in Postbank, the company’s banking subsidiary, which is to be floated on the stock market on June 21. In addition, only 63 per cent of Postbank staff have subscribed to the shares, despite the fact that the company had offered staff who wished to subscribe to 270 euros’ worth of shares half of the shares free of charge, while the remaining shares could be obtained as an interest-free loan if desired.
Read MoreForeign air carriers may soon get a slice of the lucrative US international mail markets if a current bill to liberalise US postal services gets approved.
Hearings were taking place last week in the House of Representatives on the postal reform act, which includes a complete liberalisation of the air transport of mail, allowing the postal service (USPS) to go to an open bid process. Currently, international US mail has to be carried by US carriers, with foreign companies only allowed to carry mail via codeshares or to destinations not served by US airlines.
DHL has launched an aggressive new advertising and marketing campaign to demonstrate the company’s firm commitment to bringing increased competition and choice to the U.S. express and ground parcel market. The integrated marketing campaign, in which DHL will invest approximately USD150 million over the next six months, will emphasize the company’s unmatched global network, enhanced domestic strength and comprehensive platform of products and services.
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