SKYNET WORLDWlDE has increased its European footprint with the signing of a new network partner: Sweden based Door to Door (DTD).
DTD has been operating in the Swedish marr et since 1991, specialising in fast express freight services both domestically and internationally using air and ground transportation, but from 1 January DTD ceased as a trading name.
BMW has signed a contract with FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) for a parts delivery to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport once a day five days a week. On each of the five days, FedEx will deliver 427 cubic feet of overseas parts to GSP and then those parts will be trucked to BMW Manufacturing Corp., which is adjacent to the airport. During a year’s time, FedEx will deliver more than 500,000 cubic feet of parts. By flying from FedEx’s U.S. hubs directly into GSP, the parts will arrive about 12 hours earlier and will be available for the start of the factory’s early morning shift.
Read MoreThe industrial crisis that rocked the foremost courier company, DHL Worldwide Express, recently is yet to fully abate as the employees of the company have made fresh allegation of attempts by the management of the company to victimise them.
Some protesting employees of the company have cried out to the public over plans by the management of the courier company to take punitive measures against them disregarding the agreements reached between the company and the striking workers last week.
In a bold move to sanitise the growing courier business in Nigeria, NIPOST has begun moves to deal with illegal operators.
The organisation is also embarking on comprehensive registration of operators in the industry. Already, a regulatory body in NIPOST, Courier Regulation, has been put in place for the exercise.
The U.S. Postal Service and Consignia, the British postal system, are working to overcome customer complaints about an international delivery agreement between the two agencies earlier this year, the USPS said this week. As part of the three-year deal, General Logistic Systems, Consignia’s Pan-European parcel company, delivers USPS Global Express Mail and Global Air Parcel Post in Europe.
Read MoreThe heat has been turned up on New Zealand Post after Parliament’s influential finance and expenditure committee refused to sign off its financial review and announced an inquiry sparked by it blocking the release of documents.
The finance and expenditure committee yesterday sought a six- week extension of its inquiry into New Zealand Post’s financial state of affairs after a series of revelations about its subsidiary Transend, whose three- year $54 million contract to restructure the South African postal service was terminated a year early.
The Parcels & Logistics Market by Claude Béglé of La Poste
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