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TNT Express & Quintiq take steps to reduce carbon footprint

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

TNT Express has signed an agreement with Quintiq to take further steps in its effort to reduce its carbon footprint. Through the use of the advanced planning software of Quintiq in the collection and delivery of parcels TNT Express hopes to further give shape to its program called “Planet Me” with the aim to reduce the emission of CO2. The Quintiq system will replace a large number of discrete planning systems that are now used throughout TNT Express’s 900 depots in the world.

With the new Quintiq system TNT Express will support its collection and delivery process worldwide of 3.5 million parcels and documents. The planning solution will be used to create and maintain depot profiles and allocate parcels to rounds and drivers in an optimal way. By adopting Quintiq into the Common Systems strategy TNT Express will be able to improve productivity and save on managing a variety of different planning solutions. In addition it will be able to improve tracking and tracing as well as customer service.

Initially TNT Express planned to develop a new customized planning solution in-house as it was not convinced that a standard solution was able to support all its processes and meet all its requirements. Nevertheless Quintiq was able to demonstrate that its software suite for advanced planning and scheduling could deal with all TNT Express’ issues.

The Quintiq real-time application suite offers company-wide transparency and access via interfaces for viewing all process-related decisions. Its wide range of functions allows users to react quickly to short-notice changes and contingencies. By making optimal use of each employee’s skills, availability and productivity, no additional resources need to be scheduled as a buffer, thus enabling organizations to save time, reduce labour costs and increase customer satisfaction levels. Real-time management reporting permits ongoing monitoring based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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PhilPost-8 now accepts cargo services

Posted by | Jan 9, 2008 | |

The Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost), Region 8 headed by Regional Director Fabioleta P. Ferraris is proud to announce that their office now accepts transport of cargoes from one city or municipality to another for a minimal fee.

According to PhilPost Information Officer Designate Oscar E. Bioco, said postal service is facilitated through their mail service vehicle to and from the following post office points: Tacloban City – Ormoc City and way offices; Ormoc – Kanaga – Palompon – Isabel – Merida and way offices; Tacloban – Catbalogan, Samar – Calbayog City – Catarman, Northern Samar and way offices; and Tacloban – Borongan, Eastern Samar way offices.

Bioco added that other postal points are: Ormoc – Albuera – Baybay City; Tacloban – Baybay – Maasin and way offices; Maasin – Sogod, Souther Leyte and way offices; Sogod – Silago – Abuyog – Tacloban and way offices; Guiuan, Eastern Samar – Borongan, Eastern Samar; and lastly, Borongan – Oras, Eastern Samar and way offices.

Interested parties who want to avail of this cargo service, known as Priority Express or PREX, are required to inform the consignee to pick up said cargo at the post office destination point. Bioco said that Philpost guarantee’s a same day delivery of items posted within the specified cut-off time.

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New calls for DHL withdrawal

Posted by | Jan 9, 2008 | |

A second major investment house is calling for Deutsche Post to pull DHL out of North America.

Morgan Stanley, following on the heels of Bear Stearns, said in a Jan. 7 research report that the company needs a “quick, radical solution” to the estimated USD 900 million in losses DHL faces in the United States.

The firm likened the Deutsche Post problems to those of the former DaimlerChrysler before that automaker took action by splitting off its troubled U.S. Chrysler business.

“A substantial cut in network size, combined with subcontracting and a focus on international services (revenues from USD 4.5 billion to USD 1.7 billion), is the most logical outcome, we think,” the firm said.

Morgan Stanley’s call follows a similar plea late last month from Bear Stearns, which argues the losses in the United States are eating into Deutsche Post’s overall value to shareholders.

Morgan Stanley went a step further, however, and suggested Deutsche Post may be close to making the same decision. With a new chief financial officer at DP, the firm wrote, “we sense management has stepped up a gear in terms of addressing investors’ longstanding sore point — the U.S. business.”

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Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. Begins Operations between Japan’s Kansai International Airport and Chicago O’Hare

Posted by | Jan 9, 2008 | |

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. announced that Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. (Polar) will begin service into Osaka’s Kansai International Airport from Chicago O’Hare International Airport, effective February 21, 2008. Polar will operate five times weekly between Chicago and Osaka using B747-400 freighter equipment. This new service will also provide connections from Osaka to Shanghai, as well as connecting Osaka with Polar’s U.S. destinations and the fast growing South American region.

Osaka has become an important Asian hub, with approximately 500 weekly flights to Asia, 70 weekly flights to Europe and the Middle East, and 40 weekly flights to North America. Now offering the benefit of 24-hour service and a newly-opened second runway, Osaka offers Polar efficiency and convenience as it continues to build its operations in Asia.

Polar announced it would expand its operations in Japan following the conclusion of the U.S.-Japan bilateral civil aviation negotiations in September. In addition to its existing five frequencies to Tokyo with service beyond to Seoul, South Korea, Polar was granted another six frequencies to Japan, excluding Tokyo, and the right to fly beyond this new point in Japan to two points. In this, Polar was given latitude in choosing the new destination in Japan, as well as the two points outside of the country. Polar chose to commence service into Osaka with Shanghai selected as the beyond point.

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UPS expanding global service in wake of US economic downturn

Posted by | Jan 9, 2008 | |

United Parcel Service (UPS) is expanding an international air-freight service that guarantees delivery dates in the wake of a slowing US economy, the Toronto Star reports.
The UPS Express Freight service will more than triple the amount of express lanes currently served, UPS officials said.
The service, which now reaches 52 countries, is designed to provide guaranteed time-definite, overnight-to-three day door-to-door delivery including routine customs clearance to major global metropolitan areas.
UPS has been boosting international revenue at a faster rate than in the US, where the economic expansion is waning, according to the Toronto Star. The report said UPS international operations accounted for 28 pct of the company’s total revenue in 2006.

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time:matters takeover of express specialists JNE Netherlands

Posted by | Jan 9, 2008 | |

time:matters is continuing its strategy of internationalization with its acquisition of JNE
the takeover ensures representation in a market with attractive potentials for development

Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt am Main / Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 9 January 2008 –

time:matters, the special service provider which is part of the Lufthansa Group and provides courier, sameday and emergency logistics, is continuing its strategy of internationalization: with effect from 1 January 2008 time:matters took over the Dutch express logistics provider, JNE.

In concrete terms the transaction, for which secrecy was agreed with regard to its financial volume, is presented in such a way that with the New Year 100 per cent of the shares of JNE Netherlands BV were transferred to time:matters Holding GmbH. As a result of the acquisition the founder and former owner of JNE, Ben Hofs, was appointed managing director of the new Dutch time:matters subsidiary. He is assisted by the co-managing director, Dr Arne Schulke, the chief financial officer of the German time:matters Holding. All the employees of JNE have been taken over by the new company.

JNE and time:matters combine an optimal “Strategic & Cultural Fit”: “The strategic company alignment is virtually congruous: both companies operate in a very businesslike way and are defined by strong customer orientation; the portfolio of services complement each other in a truly ideal way”, Franz-Joseph Miller, the chief executive officer of time:matters stated.

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Postal industry minimum wage to cost PIN Group up to 45 mln eur in 2008

Posted by | Jan 9, 2008 | |

The minimum wage to be brought into the postal industry, which was approved by Germany’s upper house in December, will cost PIN Group up to 45 mln eur in 2008, Chief Executive Horst Piepenburg told Die Zeit.

‘As a result of the minimum wage, costs of the PIN Group in 2008 will rise by 35-45 mln eur,’ he said.

Most of the costs are expected to be covered by a form of state reimbursement, he said.

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