DTS, the garment logistics and pre-retail service specialist, has launched a new division for the entertainment industry – Event Logistics. The company is offering a professional logistics support and management service for TV, film and stage events, concerts, exhibitions and parties in the UK and abroad. Four dedicated trailers back the service.
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Read MoreAfter more than two years of lobbying and filing several legal pleadings, United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp. have finally gotten their wish. The Department of Transportation, in an apparent win for the companies, said last week it would take a fresh look, or de novo review, of DHL’s citizenship. The parties are set to meet April 29 at a prehearing conference before the Department of Transportation’s chief administrative law judge, Ronnie A. Yoder, where they will set a schedule for the hearing, a DOT spokesman said. The ALJ has until Sept. 2 to decide what entity actually controls DHL Airways, the air carrier to determine whether DHL Airways meets U.S. citizenship requirements for air carriers.
Read MoreEssec based Online Roadways has won an award from the Palletforce network award for the highest sales last year, and also finished in the top three for overall performance.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service is readying a test to let mailers of small-circulation periodicals achieve the work-sharing discounts enjoyed by large mailers. The experiment was supposed to start yesterday but was delayed. In the experiment, publishers, printers and consolidators can combine bundles/packages of different periodicals on the same pallet and drop ship them to an area distribution center or sectional center facility. The proposed discount is 0.7 cents per piece on combined bundles sent to area distribution centers and 1 cent per piece on bundles sent to sectional center facilities.
Read MoreWatchdog Postwatch has attacked Royal Mail over a new service which allows brand owners to surreptitiously piggyback the Home Movers Service. The new scheme, currently on trial, will give Royal Mail an extra revenue stream. It allows companies to use the same envelopes as the Home Movers Service, although they will not contain the redirected post. Royal Mail plans to charge marketers around 68p per insert, with further negotiations for bulk mailings. Postwatch says it has not been notified about the new service and is unimpressed with the move.
Read MoreJapan Post, a public postal service corporation launched in April, plans to cut about 11,000 jobs by the end of March 2005, 3,000 more than planned by its predecessor the Postal Services Agency, it was learned Friday. The agency had aimed to cut 8,000 of its 140,000 workforce over the same period. The new public corporation is speeding up its rationalization program in the current severe business environment arising from the popularity of e-mail and the partial deregulation of postal services, informed sources told Jiji Press.
Read MoreChristian Salvesen PLC today announces that it is in discussions regarding the possible sale of its German industrial logistics business to its Managing Director for Germany, Mr Torben Sigenstrøm.
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