Year: 2001

Exel continues to expand

Posted by | Dec 10, 2001 | |

Over 70% of Exel’s activities, mainly in contract logistics, seafreight and road/rail freight, were not significantly affected by the tragic events of September 11,» Exel’s CEO John Allan recently said at a conference for analysts and institutional shareholders at which he presided. «However, there was some short-term disruption in airfreight operations, as a result of which Exel will incur an immediate profit impact estimated to be at most GBP 5 million,» he continued. (Exel achieved an operational profit of GBP 212.6 million last year and GBP 101.6 million this year)

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Double deck loading

Posted by | Dec 10, 2001 | |

Pall-Ex member, Twente Express, has constructed a 500 sq m trans shipment area and loading bay canopy to accomodate double deck trailers for its overnight trunks to to the Pall-Ex hub in Nottingham.

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Natco Group: Interview with Daniele Tartoni, Executive VP

Posted by | Dec 10, 2001 | |

Daniele Tartoni:
Could you briefly sketch in Natco’s company history?

Natco was established over 22 years ago. The founding members Gary Heller and Helmut File have been continuously involved in its development over the past two decades. This resulted in the creation of Natco AG and Transorga AG. Natco is headquartered in Rumlang near Zurich. The Natco Group has branch offices and stakes in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. It is pursuing a strategy of customer-oriented activities in the sector of <. The head office of Transorga is in Zurich and it has built up an excellent reputation in <>. especially in third-world and threshold countries. The firm has a staff of over 250 employees worldwide and generates an annual turnover of more than USD 100 million.

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Delivering a challenge to the integrators

Posted by | Dec 10, 2001 | |

The next-day parcels market in Ireland today is worth IR£110m-120m (€140m-152m). SDS, the parcels arm of the Irish post office An Post, claims a 40% share and rising. Overall turnover is likely to approach IR£68m (€86m) this year and the company is profitable, unlike its sickly Parcelforce counterpart in the UK.

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Lynx invests in The Netherlands as part of European Expansion

Posted by | Dec 10, 2001 | |

Parcels carrier Lynx Express is investing € 10m in the Netherlands as part of a European expansion plan which will see international traffic build to 25% of its business within five years.
Negotiations are under way for new hub premises in the Utrecht area and the company will put 100 vehicles on the Dutch roads by the end of next year, five times the size of its current fleet.
A founder member of the Euro Express network. Lynx established a direct presence in the Netherlands two years ago when its Dutch counterpart, Van Gend & Loos, was bought by Deutsche Post.

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25 years for UPS Germany

Posted by | Dec 10, 2001 | |

United Parcel Service could already look back on 70 years of company history when it first started offering its services outside the US in 1975.The first step beyond the borders of the United States took UPS to the north into neighbouring Canada. where it set up an independent operation in 1975.

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Postal and Express Delivery Services in Trade Negotiations

Posted by | Dec 10, 2001 | |

Bernard Ascher, Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) presentation at WMEA01:
Postal and Express Delivery Services in Trade Negotiations
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
U.S. proposal on express delivery services (excludes postal delivery)
Services trade negotiations – opportunity to address the impediments faced by express delivery companies.
EC proposal calls for a re-classification of postal services, and treats express delivery as a sub-sector of postal services.
Proposals by Switzerland, Mercosur, Bolivia and New Zealand more or less follow the EC classifications and favor negotiations that incorporate postal services, not just express delivery
Proposal by Hong Kong-China focuses on logistics and related services, including maritime transport and express delivery.
These proposals are publicly available on the World Trade Organization Website:

U.S. and EC Definitions of Express Delivery Services
Competitive Status of Postal and Express Delivery Services
Conclusion – trade negotiations to create conditions favorable to economic growth by removing obstacles for the movement of goods

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