Year: 2007

France's TAT Express becomes Tatex

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

French B2B parcels carrier TAT Express has rebranded to become known simply by its previous standard abbreviation Tatex and is changing its logo and identity to reflect new company values – closer relationships with clients and a small and medium-sized enterprise “spirit”.

Tatex, which transports 19 million parcels a year and has an annual turnover of over EUR 150 million, was formed in 1976 by the TAT air company and has 1,300 staff, 800 vehicles, 34 branches, five regional transit centres and a national hub in southern Paris of 14,500 sqm.

La Poste subsidiary GeoPost sold the majority of TAT Express to XAAP Finances in 2005. The rebranding to Tatex will take place this year.

One of the first steps by Tatex has been to extend by one hour the cut-off time for deliveries, from 12.00 to 13.00, which came into effect on 1 January. The company’s web site is being modified to bring its product portfolio and timetables up to date.

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Aramex brings in real-time scanners

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

Dubai-based express firm Aramex has introduced a real-time scanner system which it says will be deployed in its operations worldwide by the end of this year.

The USD 1.5 million system of wireless, handheld scanners is designed to update clients with delivery and collection details from ground couriers on the move, and has already been deployed throughout the Gulf region, Jordan and Lebanon.

“Banks are especially pleased with the advantages of this new system,” said Iyad Kamal, Aramex’s vice-president for logistics & ground services.

“Providing banks with instantaneous delivery updates of their invoices and credit card deliveries enhances efficiency of their operations,” he added.

Aramex, listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM: ARMX), employs over 5500 people in 240 offices and offers services worldwide through a network of alliances.

The company said it would upgrade its ground services equipment – to use the latest in advanced technology – following recommendations from a forum of 50 of its operational managers in Amman, Jordan, in December.

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DHL completes Dubai hub refurbishment

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

DHL has completed a AED3.5 million (USD950,000) refurbishment project at its Dubai hub.

DHL, Deutsche Post’s courier and logistics business, claimed the hub, located in Dubai International Airport, will increase DHL United Arab Emirate’s (UAE) capacity to reach 40,000 shipments and 150,000 kilograms per day over the next five years.Paul Dowling, hub manager for DHL UAE, said: “The upgrade of Hub facilities included the installation of a high specification conveyor belt system and 400 square meters of castor decking to facilitate movement of airline containers. In addition, new operation offices were part of the expansion as well as putting in place a CCTV system provided with 64 cameras to ensure security for all shipments.”Bachi Spiga, area operations director for DHL Middle East, said: “DHL has been pursuing a sustained growth strategy focusing on building capacity and continuous renovations. Through significant investments in infrastructure and technology, we have reinforced our leadership position to ensure we exceed our customers’ expectations.” DHL said the refurbishment project is the latest of several renovation and expansion moves planned by DHL in the region to accommodate both domestic and international express and logistics growth.

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Tomasz Buras appointed as the new president of the DHL Express Poland

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

Tomasz Buras has been appointed as the new president of the Polish arm of DHL Express.

He is a former lecturer at Warsaw’s University of Technology and was operational manager at Ikea Hanim Poland. From 1994 to 2001 he was a director of Sony Poland for CEE logistics and also worked for P&O Trans European Polska. He has been connected with DHL since 2002, is married and has two children.

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Express mail and delivery firms diversifying in the Czech Republic

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

With the European and Czech market of postal services slated to be fully liberalized by 2009, the Czech state-owned post office Ceska posta (CP) continues broad remedies to withstand the impact of competition, which is driven by the market to boost services, increase quality and reduce prices.

“Within two years, Ceska posta will be a different company,” said Ivo Mravinac, the director of communications with CP. The ongoing changes are concentrated on two major levels — the internal restructuring of the company and the conversion into joint-stock company.

For the past couple of years, the Czech government harbored plans to privatize the company and finally last fall the board of trustees of CP charged company CEO Karel Kratina to work out the details of the transformation into a state owned joint-stock company. “There’s no time-schedule for the whole process or for its individual steps,” Mravinac said, adding that the final deadline is Jan. 1, 2009, when the Czech postal services market is to be fully liberalized, but that the company hopes to reach its target sooner.

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Nipost Undergoing Transformation

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

The Nigerian Postal Services, NIPOST, is undergoing transformation. Within the first quarter of this year, a number of the post offices are to go on-line so as to be able to fit adequately into an information technology-driven world.

Also, to checkmate the various cases of abandoned projects, the parastatal has secured the services of reputable consultants, who are to complete the buildings and put them into viable use on a Build, Operate and Transfer, BOT, basis.

That is not all. NIPOST has concluded plans to partner with Oceanic Bank International and Ecobank in its quest to redesign all the post offices in the country, to look customer-friendly. Pilfering of mails and parcels will soon be a thing of the past in all post offices. This is because, a mechanism has been put in place to track items from their points of despatch to their destinations, just as cameras are being installed in some post offices to check unwholesome tampering with items.

Ibrahim Baba, postmaster general, who reeled out these goodies, explained that in no distant time, all post offices across the country would be provided with computers as a prelude to linking them with Internet services. NIPOST has introduced Airpost express, which is a by-product of the Express Mail Service, EMS. The concept is such that people can have their items sent to their destinations within a space of six hours. The items are sent by air and delivered to their destinations based on the agreement reached with the sender. For now, Abuja and Lagos are being used under a pilot scheme.

Baba said NIPOST still had some challenges confronting it. Some of these include constant power supply, which is necessary to keep alive the dream of an IT-driven NIPOST and bad roads which make smooth movement of delivery vans difficult.

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DHL UK first to use new sustainability reporting standard

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

DHL has released the first Sustainability Report for its operations in the UK. Prepared in accordance with the Transport and Logistics industry guidelines set out by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), makes this Report the first of its kind for the industry.

The Sustainability Report covers both the Express and Aviation divisions of DHL UK. It provides stakeholders with detailed information about the economic, environmental and social performance of DHL in the UK and the company’s aspirations for the future. The report includes information that is of particular relevance to the Transportation and Logistics industry and its customers, such as managing Health and Safety, managing the impacts of climate change from air and road transport, the handling of hazardous goods, road safety and managing noise in local communities.

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UPS to Release 4th Quarter Results on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

UPS will announce its fourth quarter results on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, at approximately 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
At 8:30 a.m. EST, UPS Chairman and CEO Mike Eskew and Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Scott Davis will conduct an investor conference call. This call will be open to reporters and the public, on a listen-only basis, via a live Webcast.

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