Year: 2001

DHL and Evergreen Air Cargo announce partnership

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

DHL World Express announced yesterday a partnership with Taiwan’s Evergreen Air Cargo Services Corporation (EGAC), which will soon provide the international express courier with air-side facilities in EGAC’s cargo terminal at CKS international airport.

The deal is part of an aggressive US$300 million investment program by DHL to enhance the company’s ground infrastructure so that it can strengthen its parcel handling efficiency in the Asia Pacific region and Taiwan.

“DHL adjusts the balance of its investment portfolio depending on where the demand for business is,” said Asia Pacific CEO Marc Duale.

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Poste Italiane on target to hit profit in 2002

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

Post Italiane is on course to break even in 2002 vowed its managing director after its operating losses for the first half of 2001 showed they were down some 72 per cent on the same period last year.
The post reported net operating losses of Euro44 million in the first half of 2001, 72 per cent less compared to the same period of 2000.
“With an improvment of Euro 124 million compared to the same period for 2000, the net operating profit of Euro 115 million is a substantial step towards overall economic stability,” said the company report.

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UK Christmas mail volumes

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

Mail volumes typically rise from about 80m items a day to 140m during the Christmas period, but much of the extra volume has gone second-class. Total volume has also stuck at about 3bn for the last couple of years.

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Early Post: BPG soothes customers

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

‘Early Post has nothing to do with abusing our monopoly but everything with making our services more efficient’, says Frans Rombouts, CEO of Belgian postal company Belgian Post Group (BPG). Early Post guarantees a post delivery before 9 a.m. from 1 November onwards but the service costs 60 euros a month.

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Bush oks $175M for postal security

Posted by | Oct 24, 2001 | |

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The cash-strapped (US) post office will receive a $175 million infusion of federal money to help it contend with the anthrax and terrorist attacks.

President Bush said Tuesday he has authorized immediate spending of the money on improved safety at postal facilities.

Postmaster General John Potter and Tom Ridge, homeland security director, have been meeting daily to discuss the anthrax attacks.

The agency had estimated its costs at $63 million from the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, and the subsequent anthrax attacks have been adding substantially to that.

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USPS and US Airlines plan to resume flying Priority Mail for holiday season

Posted by | Oct 23, 2001 | |

the Post Office and U.S. airlines are formulating new security procedures that will allow the airlines to resume carrying priority mail in time for the busy holiday shopping season. The Federal Aviation Administration banned priority mail – typically parcels weighing up to 70 pounds with two- to three-day delivery – since the Sept. 11 hijackings. The agency ended its ban on airline movements of express mail and registered mail about 10 days ago. However, most express mail moves on cargo-only Federal Express planes.

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FedEx to discontinue FedEx Extra Hours service

Posted by | Oct 23, 2001 | |

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct 23 (Reuters) – FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX – news) on Tuesday said that its FedEx Express unit will soon discontinue a recently launched service that gives customers more time for package drop offs, due to economic challenges and as part of its cost-control measures.

FedEx, the world’s No. 1 air-express package shipper, said Nov. 23 will be the last day packages may be tendered for the FedEx Extra Hours service.

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Geodis-Sernam: SNCF arbitrates in complex alliance

Posted by | Oct 23, 2001 | |

French transport minister Jean-Claude Gayssot wants to see a vast logistics branch in France, but this seems a long way off. The acquisition by Geodis of a 15 per cent stake in parcels delivery group Sernam, a subsidiary of railway group SNCF, is still being negotiated and is a small step towards the creation of such a branch.

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