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Express firms aim for double-digit growth in South America

As South America’s leading economies expand in 2007, the top international express companies are laying out their strategies for healthy growth in this key emerging market.

Foreign express companies are upping their activity in South America this year, expanding their networks and product and service offerings in the belief that optimistic economic growth forecasts for the region will hold good. DHL has restructured its Latin American operations in anticipation of double-digit growth, while TNT is expecting the same following its purchase of Brazil’s Mercurio. UPS expanded its routes and increased the frequency of services between the region and the rest of the world at the beginning of this year, while FedEx is upgrading cargo-carrying capacity to the region through fleet upgrades and targeting small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in six top countries.

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Argentina: DHL grows 100% in five years locally

DHL was founded back in 1969 by Messrs Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn of the US; thirty years later, it became part of the Deutsche Post World Net group with a world turnover of around Euro 60bil. DHL’s express delivery and logistics services are available in 220 countries. In Argentina, it has invested USD 40mil and has been run by Norberto Lovaglio for the last six years (the executive was also made regional vice-president for Hispano-America earlier this year).
Locally, DHL has extended its international courier system and has begun working with local domestic post. Over the last five years, DHL’s Argentinian operations have expanded 101%: starting off in the year 2000, it had a 27% market share and it now has 50% of the market. The firm can be expected to try to buy up other operations soon but it does not, according to Lovaglio, plan to bid for Correo Argentina if the latter’s reprivatisation is called.

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Argentina DHL Express opens three offices in Buenos Aires

DHL Express opened three new service centres in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, local media reported on January 30, 2007.
Two of the service centres are in the shopping centres Buenos Aires Design and Alto Palermo, and there is also one unit in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Parque Patricios. The cost of the new units was not disclosed.
DHL Express announced that the opening of the centres is part of its strategy for Argentina, which also includes the expansion of its services to new areas within the country. DHL Express plans to invest USD11 mln (8.5 mln euro) between 2006 and 2011 in improving its door-to-door service in Argentina and covering 150 Argentine cities.
DHL Express also plans to expand its office in the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires.
Currently DHL Express has a chain of 18 points in Argentina. There are 12 in Buenos Aires and six in the interior of the country, namely in the larger cities and industrial centres Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza, Mar del Plata, Neuquen and Salta.
DHL operates in Argentina since 1947. DHL considers that the Argentine economy is performing very well and has recovered after the economic crisis in 2002, which is the main reason DHL wants to boost its investments in the country

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Argentina DHL Express opens three offices in Buenos Aires

DHL Express has opened three new service centres in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

Two of the service centres are in the shopping centres Buenos Aires Design and Alto Palermo, and there is also one unit in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Parque Patricios. The cost of the new units was not disclosed.

DHL Express announced that the opening of the centres is part of its strategy for Argentina, which also includes the expansion of its services to new areas within the country. DHL Express plans to invest $11 mln (8.5 mln euro) between 2006 and 2011 in improving its door-to-door service in Argentina and covering 150 Argentine cities.

DHL Express also plans to expand its office in the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires.

Currently DHL Express has a chain of 18 points in Argentina. There are 12 in Buenos Aires and six in the interior of the country, namely in the larger cities and industrial centres Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza, Mar del Plata, Neuquen and Salta.

DHL operates in Argentina since 1947. DHL considers that the Argentine economy is performing very well and has recovered after the economic crisis in 2002, which is the main reason DHL wants to boost its investments in the country

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Argentina: Postal service shrinking

The Argentinian postal service sector is changing as a result of recent new regulatory policy. The sector, controlled by the Comision Nacional de Comunicaciones (CNC), featured 208 operators at the end of last year, 39 fewer than at the close of 2004, according to a report put together by Aeca, the chamber of commerce which groups together the 23 biggest private postal operations in Argentina.

This 18.8% reduction in the total number of players is the first and most obvious result of the regulatory policy emitted in May 2005 aimed at rooting out informal operations. Letter-sending rose 9.9% in 2005 to reach a total of 1.38 million whilst sectorial turnover rose 24.36% to over PesoD1.558bil in 2005.

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