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Fedex to expand services to 100 more chinese cities

Posted by | Nov 1, 2001 | |

The U.S.-based express delivery company Federal Express (FedEx) will expand its services to 100 more Chinese cities over the next five years.
Eddy Chan, vice president of China & Mid Pacific Region of FedEx, made the announcement at an international forum for mayors held recently in north China’s Tianjin Municipality.
The business of FedEx in China has been snowballing since it made its debut in the country in 1984. It now can provide services to 190 Chinese cities, with its 11 flights shuttling between China and the outside world each week.

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SSI shifts base to Hythe

Posted by | Nov 1, 2001 | |

Kent based Sanderson & Hayward International (SSI) has moved to new and larger premises at Lympne Industrial park in Hythe. The new sites close proximity to the Channel Tunnel means that the company can now offer importers from continental Europe a guaranteed next-day delivery of consignments of one to four pallets, and a 48 hour service through its membership of Palletline.

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LanChile expands boutique cargo operations to raise returns

Posted by | Nov 1, 2001 | |

Small is beautiful at LanChile. As LanChile’s air cargo business shrinks behind an overall decline in big box operations, the Chilean airline is betting on small package delivery as a way to stay profitable.
“Cargo was always considered the least glamorous side of the business,” explains LanChile CEO Enrique Cueto. “But for us it has always been perhaps the most important part.”

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Postal Fallout – postal crisis affect airlines

Posted by | Nov 1, 2001 | |

For airlines already reeling from the financial and traffic fallout from September 11, there was little comfort from the most dependable of their businesses, the U.S. Postal Service.
Industry experts say the U.S. combination airlines got about $635 million from the USPS for mail traffic in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2000

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Royal Mail Flying to Germany

Posted by | Oct 31, 2001 | |

Royal Mail has launched a new charter air
service dedicated to transporting its mail to Germany. The Stansted to Hahn
flight will be operated by Channel Express using a Boeing 737-300, the
carrier said in a statement. Scheduled passenger flights are normally used
to carry the postal operator’s international mail.

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