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FedEx and U.S. Commercial Service renew commitment to boost U.S. exports

Posted by | May 16, 2007 | |

FedEx Corp. and the Commerce Department’s U.S. Commercial Service announced a new five-year agreement aimed at boosting exports from U.S. businesses. The agreement is designed to help simplify the complexity of international trade, particularly for small- and medium-size businesses looking to source and sell in the global marketplace.

FedEx and the Commercial Service created the concept for their joint trade promotion initiative in 2004. Since joining forces, FedEx and the Commercial Service have introduced approximately 10,000 clients to the business of exporting. As part of the new five-year agreement, FedEx and the Commercial Service will continue to help U.S. businesses develop successful export strategies through free resources such as market research, trade leads, export seminars, and supply chain management services.

U.S. exporters stand to benefit from the joint resources of FedEx and the Commercial Service. The U.S. Commercial Service has trade specialists in more than 100 U.S. cities and 80 countries to help companies start exporting or increase sales to new global markets. The FedEx network is also extensive, providing access to more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, and connecting markets that comprise more than 90 percent of the world’s GDP. FedEx also offers global trade technology and tools to empower U.S. exporters, including customs clearance solutions.

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Correos displays its online products at the

Posted by | May 16, 2007 | |

Correos is taking part in the 11th National Conference on Internet, Telecommunications and the Information society, ‘Mundo Internet 2007’, which is organised every year by the Association of Internet Users (AUI), with the aim of offering a global and integrated vision of the state of internet technologies and their practical application. The conference, which begins today, is being held in Malaga.

During the conference, which will continue until next Wednesday, the postal company will be informing people about its “Virtual Post Office”, the aim of which is to provide the public with the necessary technological resources to carry out a large number of transactions using the internet, including sending letters, personalised postcards, telegrams, registered mail, notifications, money orders and burofaxes. This service responds to public demand for easier access to postal services. The website also provides all types of postal information (postal code and branch locator, delivery tracker, cost calculator, etc.).

According to Ricardo Ferreiro, Correos’ regional director for Western Andalusia, “our sponsorship of ‘Mundo Internet 2007’ is yet another example of our commitment to using the internet, and to extending the Information Society through a “Virtual Post Office” that is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the services and products of which are becoming ever more widely known among the public and the Spanish business sector.”

As part of the services supplied, ‘Tu Sello’ was launched at the beginning of the year, and has become one of the postal company’s star products. It consists of personalised stamps, that is, stamps with the images or motifs of the customer’s choice, which are processed through the online service

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Austrian Post joins consortium taking over

Posted by | May 16, 2007 | |

Austrian Post AG has signed a consortium agreement together with the other partners of the consortium yesterday, namely Cerberus, Generali Versicherung, Bausparkasse Wüstenrot as well as a group of private investors. Henceforth, Austrian Post forms part of the buyer-consortium.

This agreement provides for the acquisition of 100% of BAWAG P.S.K.’s shares by the consortium. In its new position as owner of BAWAG P.S.K., Austrian Post is entitled to delegate one member to BAWAG P.S.K.’s supervisory board. Austrian Post will acquire a share of 5% of this consortium. The consortium partners have agreed to keep the purchase price confidential.

Austrian Post regards this investment as an opportunity for a profitable and value-oriented investment as well as an opportunity for an accelerated joint growth strategy.

In the course of negotiations with BAWAG P.S.K. the existing cooperation agreement for the distribution of financial services through the nationwide network of 1,334 post branch offices was extended for three years until 2015.
In 2006, Austrian Post generated commission income in the amount of approximately EUR 97 million from the distribution of financial service products for BAWAG P.S.K.. Both companies are determined to now strengthen the distribution through Austrian Post’s network.

The responsibilities between Austrian Post and BAWAG P.S.K. regarding the operative management of the distribution through the post branch offices have been re-adjusted. BAWAG P.S.K. will provide technical know-how; Austrian Post will be responsible for the employees. The ideal mix of products to be distributed through the post-network will be from now on determined jointly.

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Asia’s first road network expands into Vietnam

Posted by | May 16, 2007 | |

TNT today announced the expansion of Asia’s pioneering integrated road network into Vietnam following a further euro 6 million investment. Adding to an original investment of euro 2 million, the enhancement brings the total investment to date to euro 8 million. TNT plans to extend the Asia Road Network to reach China through the north-eastern border of Vietnam by the end of 2007. Once completed, the network in Southeast Asia will cover almost 60 per cent of the region and link over 120 cities across 4,000 km.

First introduced at the end of 2005, the first phase of TNT’s Asia Road Network linked Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. With 24×7 real-time Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) tracking of TNT’s container trucks, the service resulted in double-digit growth in overall volumes within a year, particularly among customers with high-value goods such as electronic, automotive and computing components.

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Wincor Nixdorf supplies IT systems for counter service at Greek post offices

Posted by | May 16, 2007 | |

Together with its Greek partner Unisystems, Wincor Nixdorf has won a contract to deliver IT equipment for the counter positions in 416 branches of the Greek postal system (ELTA). All 1280 systems – consisting of Beetle iSprint PC and extensive peripherals, including monitors, printers and keyboards – are scheduled to be installed by the end of 2007.

Wincor Nixdorf was the only bidder able to realize the extensive list of demands made by the Greek postal system. “The customer’s wishes as regards the systems’ energy consumption was a particular challenge that we met in addition to other technical requirements and quality standards,“ said Mrs Vicky Bassela, head of Wincor Nixdorf Greece. As early as 2003, Wincor Nixdorf provided front-end systems for 33 branches of the Greek post office.

With this order, Wincor Nixdorf continues its strategy of extending its core competence in bank and retail company branch operations into related sectors in order to tap their business potential.

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Customer satisfaction report: FedEx, UPS, USPS

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

The ACSI report, released on Tuesday, presented customer satisfaction results in different segments.

United Parcel Service Inc. scored an 81, losing to FedEx’s 84 but beating the U.S. Postal Service’s score of 77. UPS’ score in 2006 was 83.

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FedEx eyes Oregon for distribution hub

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

FedEx Corporation reportedly is eyeing Oregon as the site for a Northwest distribution hub.

The Oregonian newspaper is quoting local officials as saying the Memphis-based company is considering the former Alcoa-Reynolds Metals site north of the Troutdale airport to become one of nine regional distribution centers.

FedEx held a pre-application meeting with the city in late April and plans to submit its formal request in June or July. According to FedEx pre-application documents, the company plans to employ 765 people in the initial phase of development.

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Microlise, DHL and Aeroscout pioneer new monitoring solution

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

DHL in partnership with Microlise and AeroScout, has developed a dynamic new system for the pharmaceutical industry which enables the real-time monitoring of product shipment temperatures throughout an extended supply chain using RFID sensors.

DHL, Microlise and AeroScout partnered with a leading healthcare company to develop a system that will help customers better meet temperature compliance regulations set within the pharmaceutical industry. With this system, we will have full real-time visibility of the location and temperature of it’s the pharmaceutical shipments throughout the supply chain, through a web browser linked to the Microlise Transport Management Centre (TMC) software. The TMC enables real time tracking of the vehicle position along with the temperature indication from the Wi-Fi-Based AeroScout Active RFID tags which are used to monitor the shipments.

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