Carrier Logistics Company Profile
Carrier Logistics Company Profile
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Year: 2005
FedEx to operate Shanghai-bound cargo flights from Chubu airport
FedEx Corp. of the United States said Monday it will operate five Shanghai-bound direct cargo flights per week from Chubu Centrair International Airport near Nagoya starting May 9. This will bring the number of flights FedEx operates from Chubu airport to nine per week, including the existing four North America-bound flights. FedEx expects to draw strong demand for cargo flights from automobile and precision equipment manufacturers based in and outside of Nagoya, central Japan.
Read MoreDHL plans sea and air freight coup
German-owned parcel and logistics giant DHL has underlined its ambition to become the global number one in sea and air freight forwarding. ‘Our impressive results show that we have successfully advanced our growth course and succeeded in convincing many new customers of our global capacity in a highly competitive market,’ said Dr Frank Appel, board member of the Deutsche Post subsidiary.
DHL Danzas Air ‘ Ocean already ranks itself as the number one air freight forwarder, and number two in ocean freight, second only to Kuehne + Nagel, which handled 1.6m teu worldwide last year.
However, the combined top five sea freight players have a market share of less than 25percent, with DHL itself accounting for about about 7.3percent.
Read MoreUK Royal Mail workers set for pounds 200m bonanza after profits hit new high
Postal workers are to share a pounds 200m windfall after annual profits at the Royal Mail surged to a record high. The state-owned postal group will not publish its full-year results until 17 May. But The Independent on Sunday has learnt that profits will come in at more than pounds 500m, with revenues up between 4 and 5 per cent. That will trigger the payout to postal workers, the biggest in the organisation’s history. All employees who have been with the company for more than a year are eligible for the payout ” likely to be around pounds 1,000 each ” from sorting room to staff to chief executive Adam Crozier. It is understood, however, that chairman Allan Leighton, who took up the role in 2002, has decided to forgo his bonus.
Read MoreThe man who wants to deliver your post – Nick Wells Interview
Nick Wells sold his marketing firm to the Dutch giant TPG for Pounds 20m. Now he is heading its bid to blow apart the Royal Mail’s 350-year monopoly.
By the time I am up the narrow staircase Nick Wells is already apologising. “I bet you’ve not seen many offices as unglamorous as this?” he grins, waving his hand around.
Well, probably not. Wells’s base for TNT Mail UK, the Dutch-owned business mail start-up that is taking on Royal Mail, is a small two-storey warehouse off a suburban road in outer Maidenhead.
The reception area downstairs fits two at a pinch. Wells’s cardboard-walled office, overlooked by the bedrooms of the semi- detached houses opposite, might fit four. Even the three named directors’ parking slots in the tiny car park outside seem more like desperate pragmatism than any folly of hubris.
Read MoreStamp cost to rise 25percent as An Post hits black
AS An Post stands poised to reveal a dramatic EUR 45m turnaround in its fortunes later this week, the Sunday Independent has also learned that the troubled semi-State is set to apply for a 25 per cent increase in the price of a postage stamp.
It is understood that the semi-state company will seek to have the cost of posting an ordinary letter raised to 60 cents.
The beleaguered company will unveil a surprise return to profit in its 2004 annual report due to be published on Thursday.
Ireland’s most troubled semi-state will report an operating profit of EUR 1.68m when chief executive Donal Curtin releases the annual report at the GPO in Dublin. This reverses the massive losses of EUR 43m which were reported in Curtin’s debut presentation at An Post 12 months ago.
Read MoreDHL builds B2B network with centre in North UK
DHL Global Mail is ramping up its national business-to-business (B2B) network, as part of its assault on the deregulated postal market.
The company is opening a mail centre in Warrington, Cheshire – the first since DHL’s acquisition of business mail specialist Smartmail International last year.
Smartmail already provides London regions with a B2B collection and delivery service. The northern centre’s unveiling marks its full integration into DHL.
DHL says the opening represents a major step in its plan to create a national network to rival Royal Mail within the next 18 months.
John Ivers, UK managing director of DHL Global, comments: “The fundamental factor missing in today’s mail service is reliability. By building our own network, we have 100 per cent control over this.”
Gregor McGregor, chief executive of Postwatch, states: “Customers want regular, reliable postal services, and this new service hits the mark.”
Read MoreSlovakia govt seeks to speed up liberalisation of postal market
The ministry of transport, post and telecommunications has proposed that the liberalisation of the postal market should be brought forward by two years to start from Jan 1, 2007, rather than from 2009 under the original plan, SITA news agency reported.
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