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Aramex delivers Oman Post Express Shipments

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

Aramex, announced that it has partnered with Oman Post to handle express deliveries on its behalf to the MENA region, Indian Sub-Continent and Europe.

As per the agreement, Aramex will serve as key logistics provider for the handling of express deliveries on behalf of Oman Post.

Aramex offers an innovative solution that stretches across the GCC, MENA and South Asian regions. The benefits of the relationship for Oman Post is that Aramex has the capability, resources and flexibility to reach markets earlier untouched by the government shipment arm that are key to placing Oman Post on the map of influential postal service providers.

Aramex has started delivering on behalf of the Omani government through this partnership which comes as a demonstration of Aramex ‘s commitment to the Omani and wider GCC communities.

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Minister responsible for Canada Post tables an amendment to the Canada Post Corporation act

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today tabled a key amendment to the Canada Post Corporation Act that would permit letter exporters to collect letters in Canada for transmittal and delivery outside Canada. Until now, Canada Post was the only corporation legally entitled to this privilege.

“The Government of Canada is committed to fair, transparent and accountable governance,” said Minister Cannon. “This amendment is intended to facilitate more competitiveness for companies within the mail industry worldwide and further facilitate the growth of the outbound international mail market in Canada.”

The proposed amendment to the Canada Post Corporation Act adds an exception to Canada Post’s exclusive privilege under Section 15 for letters intended for delivery to an addressee outside Canada.

The Canada Post Corporation is a Crown corporation and one of the largest employers in Canada. It serves approximately 33 million Canadians, and more than one million businesses and public institutions. In 2006, Canada Post employees delivered 11.6 billion pieces of mail to more than 14 million addresses in Canada.

The Canada Post Corporation Act, which came into effect in 1981, regulates mail services in Canada.

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Dynamism and quick development at DHL Express Hungary

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

2007 is the year of change and expansion in the life of DHL Express Hungary. Three important departments moved together: the Ground distribution centre (Gyömröi út), the Inbound operation base (Besence utca) and the Corporate office (Kocsis utca). The integration supports both the permanent improvements and the expansion of services.

Moreover, DHL Express expanded its morning deliveries across Europe. This market leader coverage means delivering to more than 20000 zip codes across the region before noon. DHL also offers a money back guarantee for these time definite shipments.

The company has opened its second gateway in Hungary on Sármellék (SOB) in September. The unique cut-off time (latest pick-up time) gives extra time for DHL customers for their production processes, which enables them to strengthen their position on their market. Thus, DHL Express Hungary provides the best service to its customers by supporting their power towards competition.

Thanks to the expansion of its services DHL now has a greater coverage in Europe even on road. DHL takes its Europlus product into five new Eastern European countries which are Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia and Greece. With Europlus, DHL offers a cost-efficient solution that provides reliable and convenient delivery of less urgent single parcel, multiple parcel and pallet shipments. In 2008 this service will be further extended to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Ukraine.

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FedEx readies for the busiest holiday season in company history

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

For the tenth consecutive year, FedEx Corp. expects to break company volume records when an unprecedented 11.3 million packages move through the FedEx Express and FedEx Ground global networks on December 17, 2007. On an average day, more than
7 million packages move through the FedEx systems.
Other FedEx projections for this holiday season include:
• FedEx Ground projects it will handle its highest package volume ever on Monday, December 10, 2007, when it expects to move more than 7 million packages.
• December 17, 2007, is expected to be FedEx Express busiest night with nearly 5 million packages moving through the network.
• FedEx international markets including the United Kingdom, China, India and Canada also will see their busiest day on Dec. 17, 2007 when they collectively process nearly 350,000 FedEx Express domestic international shipments.
• FedEx Kinkos also will see its busiest night on December 17, 2007, when 345,000 FedEx Express and FedEx Ground packages are projected to move through the FedEx Kinkos channel.This is a 12 percent increase over last years busiest day for FedEx Kinkos.
• FedEx SmartPost expects its busiest day will be December 3, 2007 with 1.9 million shipments moving through the network.
• The award winning fedex.com Web site is expected to break records as well this holiday season, processing an average of almost 6.5 million online tracking requests per day during the peak month of December. On average, fedex.com processes 3.5 million online tracking requests per day. On the highest single day in December, we expect 8 million online tracking requests.

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TNT N.V. announce 2007 Q3 results

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

Express
– Strong volume and revenue growth versus very strong Q3 2006 comparatives
– Earnings before depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) € 190 million, up 11.1%
– Operating margin excluding recent acquisitions consistently strong

Mail
– Continued good revenue growth due to EMN expansion
– First volume success of differentiating product offering in Mail Netherlands visible
– Operating margin stable

Group
– Net profit EUR 167 million
– Outlook confirmed

CEO Peter Bakker:
“The development of our results is satisfactory, certainly compared to the very strong Q3 of last year. Both Express and Mail revenues showed good organic growth and we continued to invest in emerging businesses in Express and Mail.

In Express, the operating margin, excluding the planned start-up costs of our recent acquisitions is above last year’s. In Mail, EMN revenue continues to develop strongly, particularly in the UK and Germany, whilst in Mail Netherlands we saw the positive impact of our product differentiation strategy on volumes.

In The Netherlands, we are continuing discussions with the trade unions on the new masterplan initiatives. As a first step, the Mobility Agreement, which will be part of the overall collective labour agreement, has now been agreed between the unions and ourselves.

Finally, I am pleased that TNT ranks first in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2007 and that we achieved the highest score in the entire index.”

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DHL appoints Anita Gupta as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Sustainability in Asia Pacific

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

DHL announced the appointment of Anita Gupta as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Sustainability for Asia Pacific. Ms. Gupta is based at DHL’s regional headquarters in Singapore, where she will develop and steer communications and sustainability initiatives across all business divisions in Asia Pacific. Her appointment is effective from 15 October 2007.

Prior to joining DHL, Ms. Gupta was with Citigroup in New York, USA, where over the course of eleven years she held various positions in the Public Affairs and Communications areas and, most recently, as Global Head of Risk and Compliance Communications.

Before her stint in New York, she was Director of Public Affairs and Communications for Citibank in South Asia. Under her leadership, Citibank in India innovated and implemented an internationally recognized micro-credit program.

Before joining Citibank, Ms. Gupta was Public Affairs and Communications Manager at American Express Bank Ltd., India, where she was a key member of the team that launched the American Express Card in India. She is also credited with developing the Public Affairs function.

Ms. Gupta succeeds Christina Koh, who has relocated to Bonn, Germany, from where she now heads the global Express communications department.

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