Poland’s postal service, Polish Post (PP), has announced it will invest ZL176m in a tele-information network that it says will take it into the 21st Century with a new range of services. The services that will be on offer will be offered in about 2,700 of the post office’s 8,000 outlets, with the connection of the remaining outlets not economically viable.
Read MoreAccording to TNT Express Worldwide (Singapore), bio-logistics, which involves the distribution, storage and packing of biomedical products, is one of its fastest-growing departments. The department is expanding even faster than its electronics and telecommunications departments. TNT, which transports human blood and tissue samples in the Asia-Pacific region, says its makes at least 20,000 biomedical-product shipments in a year and charges between S$ 40 and S$ 250 per shipment. About five companies currently provide bio-logistics services to support Singapore’s growing life-science industry. Besides TNT, the others include FedEx Express and World Courier Singapore.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service Inc. has cut its third-quarter earnings estimates because of a sharp drop in shipping activity immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. UPS said in a statement it now expects to earn 45 to 48 cents per share, down from earlier, reduced guidance of 52 to 55 cents per share. The company had already lowered earnings expectations in July.
Read MoreDHL, the international courier company, on Thursday launched a
second distribution centre in the Antwerp region in Belgium. Apart
from the Aartselaar centre, express mail can now also be distributed
from a centre on Noorderlaan.
Despite the uncertain economic outlook and its possible adverse effects on the logistics business, Schenker CEO Håkan Larsson is confident that his group has good prospects of success in the international market over the next few years
Read MoreLeeds-based KG Sewell Contracts has signed a new £5,m, 4 year contract with Kautex Textron for the European transport of car parts.
Read MoreThe three partners laid the foundation stone for their alliance on April 26, 2000 which, until now, has been known as “New Global Cargo”. Lufthansa Cargo is the largest freight carrier in the world and Singapore Airlines Cargo the third largest. Both airlines have global networks. SAS Cargo has a strong presence in Scandinavia and a closely meshed network.
Together, the alliance opens up new markets to shippers, particularly in Asia, Scandinavia, Australia, North America and Northern Europe. The three partners operate a network of 493 destinations worldwide in 103 countries on five continents. The alliance has access to a total of 31 freight-only aircraft and the belly capacities of 612 passenger aircraft, many of which are wide-body aircraft.
The partners say they have harmonized their premium express services and agreed on the relevant IT support as well as common standards and handling processes.
In future, all three express services will be classed as “time definite” services with clearly defined latest acceptance times and time of availability. With this move the carriers say they are further integrating their products into modern supply chain management processes. For the convenience of shippers, the alliance says all express shipments of up to 100 kilograms will be automatically confirmed, with the performance guaranteed for each product across the alliance network.
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