Maersk adds flying Finn to global network
Maersk Logistics aggressive expansion spree continues with the addition of Finland’s Oy Arealog Ltd., a forwarder and customs broker, to its global logistics organisation. (10/15/2001)
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Maersk Logistics snaps up DSL
Maersk Logistics, has completed the acquisition of assets and operations from US logistics company Distribution Services Limited (DSL), effective immediately. (10/15/2001)
Maersk Logistics will take over transload and warehouse operations, along with ocean transport intermediary business from DSL.
Read MoreUPS drops Asian LCL venture
United Parcel Service’s (UPS) less-than-container-load service for Asia-US shipments Gemini Shippers Association – ceased operating at the end of last month, according to spokesmen. (10/15/2001)
Read MoreTNT and OPC terminate partnership
The German subsidiary of the TNT Post Group (TPG), TNT Express GmbH, and the courier, express and parcel service provider Overnight Parcel Courier (OPC) founded in Düsseldorf in 1986 terminated their partnership contract by September 30, 2001 «by mutual agreement».
Read MoreMaking mail deliver
You can’t please all the people all the time. As expected, Consignia’s minority stake of £2 million in Bristol-based mailing house Mail Marketing International has caused mixed reactions.
The investment, claims Royal Mail, is part of an ongoing strategy to protect mail from cheaper, faster options, like email. By stumping up the cash, the delivery giant says it wants to ensure direct mail has a sustainable future. “The problem,” says Geoff Lambert, finance and commercial director at Royal Mail, “is how to make the industry relevant in a digital age. We’re putting our money where our mouth is. We’re willing to change and to share the risk.”
By risk, Lambert means taking time and cost out of the supply chain. Investment in MMI, he predicts, enables both companies to develop new ways of working, with the solutions they find to be shared among the industry.
FedEx puts service before savings
Commentary Copyright 2001, Traffic World Magazine During an analysts’ meeting last April in Memphis, Tenn., Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx Corp., once again was asked why FedEx does not integrate the operational network of its express and ground parcel services. Smith, founder of the $20 billion company and the express industry, has been asked this question many times before. Once again, an exasperated Mr. Smith explained the differences in the service requirements of the two businesses and the improved ability to provide higher service for express packages and a more attractive price for ground packages.
Read MorePallet ventures build network
Palletline and Pall-Ex are facing growing competition from rivals with pan-European strategies – European Network Distribution (END) and United Pallet Network (UPN)
Read MoreEU agrees to open 40% of postal markets by 2006
European Union governments agreed on Monday gradually to open their postal delivery markets to competition, reducing the traditional dominance of national mail monopolies. After more than a year of wrangling, ministers from the 15 EU member states reached a compromise that would open about 40 percent of the bloc’s postal market by 2006, EU single market commissioner Frits Bolkestein said.
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