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City Link confirms commitment to major customer with new joint liveried trailer

Posted by | Apr 29, 2008 | |

City Link has reinforced its ongoing commitment to Karndean, a flooring supplier, with the presentation of a joint liveried trailer.

The eye catching vehicle serves to raise the profile of both companies. City Link will use it to deliver Karndean’s design flooring to retailers and commercial contractors across the country.

Stuart Godman, City Link’s Sales and Marketing Director, said: “We have been working closely with Karndean over the past three years to deliver a quality service to flooring customers. This liveried trailer is a sign of our commitment to continue this successful partnership and maintain a high standard of service.”

Karndean’s Operations Director, John Wright, commented: “City Link has played a key role over the past three years in supporting Karndean’s commitment to quality customer service. We look forward to continuing this partnership and using this trailer to meet the needs of our valued customers. ”

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DHL and Borderlinx partner to simplify international e-commerce

Posted by | Apr 29, 2008 | |

Delivery and logistics company DHL International GmbH and U.K.-based Borderlinx, a company that helps businesses ship goods from a number of suppliers, have partnered to assist U.S. e-retailers selling internationally. The deal aims to make it easy for U.S. e-retailers to ship abroad, and for foreign consumers to know how much they will pay for shipping.

Under the agreement, U.S. online retailers can integrate directly with Borderlinx to make their products available to the international marketplace. The integration provides web merchants with such services as order fulfillment and warehousing and shipping and delivery services out of DHL’s primary ground hub in Wilmington, OH, to any of the 225 countries and territories to which DHL ships. The hub location allows easy access to international flights, as well as late cut-off times for orders, according to DHL.

The five-year deal is aimed squarely at what Borderlinx founder Neill O’Sullivan says is huge demand among international consumers to shop U.S. e-commerce sites. Only a small percentage of the top 500 U.S. Internet retailers ship internationally, and O’Sullivan says the deal removes two key barriers preventing U.S. e-retailers from doing so—the inability of U.S. online retailers to easily sell and ship to foreign consumers, and the reluctance of an international shopper to complete a purchase without knowing the shipping fee.

When a U.S. merchant ties into the U.S. DHL/Borderlinx platform, consumers from abroad will see an international shipping button during the checkout process. A click of that button passes the transaction to Borderlinx, which calculates the total cost of getting the order from the merchant to the international customer, including the product price, the shipping costs and a Borderlinx service charge of about 10% of the product price.

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Canada Post unveils its first Braille stamp

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Canada Post is issuing its first ever Braille stamp featuring guide dogs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Canada’s oldest association for the blind, it said Wednesday.
Some 3.5 million copies of the domestic 52-cent stamp have been printed with Braille embossing and larger-than-usual typeface for the vision-impaired, and featuring a yellow Labrador retriever, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Montreal Association for the Blind.
“We provide vital communication links to all Canadian households and to offer a Braille stamp reinforces our commitment to meet the needs of all Canadians,” said Bob Waite, a Canada Post senior vice-president.
The first Braille embossed stamp in the world was produced by Brazil in 1974 to commemorate the Fifth World Council for the Welfare for the Blind in Sao Paulo.
Almost a dozen countries have also since printed Braille stamps, however most were said to be symbolic because the light paper used to make the stamps did not typically hold the raised Braille for very long before being flattened.

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Kratzer for TNT

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Kratzer Automation has for the first time equipped its logistics software cadisTRANSPORT for TNT Innight with a special module for night delivery of freight goods, and has implemented it as a composite application for day and night. The verification in case of night delivery, where the receipt is not acknowledged personally, is carried out via scanning a stoppage bar code in connection with the recording of the current geocoded position via an external GPS recipient. The delivery of freight during the day is documented by signature of the recipient as usual. All 22 TNT Innight subsidiaries in Germany were equipped with CadisTransport, as well as with about 960 mobile MC9094 units.

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Night Star Express targets strong volume growth

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Night Star Express has announced a 5 pct increase in volumes to 3 million shipments for 2007 to strengthen its position as one of the leading freight forwarding companies providing overnight delivery. This year it is targeting double-digit growth.

The positive development comes from a consistent strategy in quality and growth, said the night express operator, which is a cooperation between eight medium-sized German freight forwarding companies providing pre-8 a.m. delivery within Germany and to neighbouring countries. The company has some 550 staff and 500 vehicles.

“Night Star Express has grown organically and is very well positioned. Moreover, deliveries to other European countries have been expanded”, pointed out managing director Matthias Hohmann.

“In 2008, we are aiming at a double-digit increase in shipment volumes. The overnight express market is growing in line with the whole CEP market, which has already been obvious during the first months of this year. As a specialised supplier focusing on quality, we provide individual and customised services generating further shipment volumes within our niche market. We provide our customers with one-stop comprehensive overnight and logistic services to which we owe our success during the last 15 years”, added Hohmann.

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Itella to acquire a logistics group NLC in Russia

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Itella will acquire National Logistic Company (NLC), the leading warehousing service provider in the Russian logistics market . The deal will reinforce Itella Logistics’ position as one of the leading logistics operators in Northern Europe and make it a one of the market leaders in the rapidly growing Russian logistics market. In future, Itella Logistics will provide logistics services throughout Russia via its extensive logistics centre network and transport connections. With a staff of 6,000, NLC’s net sales for 2008 will be around EUR 180 million. The completion of the acquisition is subject to the approval of the Russian competition authorities.
NLC is Russia’s leading warehousing service provider, and one of the few operators with a comprehensive logistics centre network, covering not only Moscow but also 6 other major cities in Russia. The firm is experiencing intensive growth: at the end of this year, it will have some 600,000 square metres of warehousing space, including 230,000 square metres in its own premises. In addition to warehousing, NLC’s services comprise transport and deliveries in Russia, complemented by Itella Logistics’ comprehensive global land, sea and air freight services.
Comprehensive warehouse logistics and transport network in Russia
The service portfolio and customer business lines of Itella Logistics and NLC are highly similar. NLC’s customer base comprises international manufacturers and retail chains of daily and special goods, pharmaceutical companies and Russian trade firms.

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New Payshop international top-up service

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Taking into account the high number of spanish visitors in Portugal, Payshop has extended its pay –as –you-go mobile phone service to other phone networks as Movistar, Orange, Yoigo, Lebara or Happy Móvil. from now , Spanish visitors can top up their cell phones with 5 euros up to 150 euros.

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