DHL, the world’s leading express and logistics company, has awarded EWS, Britain’s leading rail freight operator, a three year contract to manage the transportation of parcels by rail between the West Midlands and Scotland.
DHL has previously used EWS services on a trial basis. The contract reinforces DHL’s strategy to use the most effective form of transport for its customers and the environment.
Read MoreNational Courier Network md Micke McCormick confirmed on Tuesday that he has signed up a dozen members from Hellmann Overnight, which collapsed just before Christmas. NCN recruits include YDS based in Yorkshire and Mainland Express of Northampton.
Read MoreJapan’s economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka met with Deutsche Post AG President and Chief Executive Officer Klaus Zumwinkel to discuss Germany’s experience in postal privatisation as Japan seeks to privatize its own postal service in 2007.
At a press conference after the meeting in Bonn, Takenaka said he asked Zumwinkel about how Germany balanced efficiency with uniform postal services nationwide.
Read MoreJapan Post is set to launch a service to deliver direct mail commissioned by Sagawa Express Co. and Nippon Express Co., the nation’s second- and third-largest couriers, by the March 31 end of the current fiscal year, officials at the postal corporation said.
Japan Post will submit an application with the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications in early February for launching the service, the officials said.
Under the plan, the corporation will deliver direct mail for Kyoto-based Sagawa Express and Tokyo-based Nippon Express at low rates.
Read MoreStaff of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) have been urged to gird their loins for the Federal Governments 48-hour mail delivery directive as the establishment has evolved strategies to achieve the target.
Addressing NIPOST staff in Abuja on the corporations 2004 Action Plan, the Post-Master General, Malam Abubakar Musa Argungu, said though NIPOST achieved 80% success in its 72-hour delivery target last year for letters posted to any part of the country, the aim this year was to surpass that record.
Our aim this year is to achieve 90% of the government directive, Argungu said, adding that already NIPOST had concluded plans to computerise its operations across the country to meet the target.
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Read MoreFedEx Corp. is considering plans to make Incheon International Airport into one of its critical operations hubs in Asia, the government’s Planning Office of the Free Economic Zone said.
The planning office said that as part of this overall plan, the global shipping company has increased the number of weekly flights it operates out of Incheon from 13 to 20 as of Jan 6. Of these, five will fly directly to Subic Bay in the Philippines, which means that South Korea’s importance as a business center for the company will increase.
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