DMA forges partnership with China Direct Mail Association
The Direct Marketing Association is linking up with the China Direct Mail Association to promote global business development using direct mail.
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Philippines Post CEO tells UNI Apro he will consult with workers on modernisation
The UNI Apro Post & Logistics Committee, meeting in Manila, had a good exchange of views with the CEO of PhilPost, Mr Hector Villanueva who came and addressed the meeting. He told the meeting that unless they wanted privatisation they needed to make sure the post company was making a profit, they needed to give incentives to the Government so they would want to keep their investment. One of the things the company needed to do to stay profitable was to modernise and use new technology. UNI told the Mr Villanueva that while unions weren’t opposed to new technology and modernisation, they wanted to be consulted and to be able to ensure their members were re-skilled, retrained and given new jobs and the the work wasn’t outsourced. Mr Villanueva gave assurances that the union would be an integral part of the decision making over modernisation.
He also told unions attending the UNI-Apro meeting that PhilPost was one of the first fully deregulated markets in the world where all post was subject to competition since 1991. He said the company was doing well competing with new entrants and in reality it was PhilPost that still had to provide the Universal Service, but that was now a difficult task with falling volumes of mail.
DHL launches advertising campaign appealing export strengths
DHL launched an advertising campaign on 20 October that will run across newspaper and magazines through to the end of 2008. The campaign will communicate speedy delivery and increasingly sophisticated services and solutions to highlight DHL’s superiority in exporting capabilities.
This campaign focuses on three DHL services – DHL EXPRESS PALLET, DHL BREAKBULK EXPRESS, and DHL EXPRESS 9:00 / DHL EXPRESS 12:00 – and are focused on communicating the characteristics of these services as well as highlighting the service advantage DHL promises to its customers in an easily comprehensible manner.
DHL will appeal the features of the three services, along with the concept of “When hasso (the idea) changes, hasso (shipping) also changes,” in three phases via newspapers and magazines, which is a witty means to communicating in Japanese that DHL has a shipping solution for every idea / need of the business.
Read MoreUPS begins construction of intra-Asia hub in Shenzhen
UPS began construction of its new intra-Asia air hub at Shenzhen International Airport in the heart of China’s Pearl River Delta.
Once completed, the Shenzhen facility will replace UPS’s current intra-Asia hub located at the former Clark Air Base in the Philippines and serve as UPS’s primary transit hub in Asia. The facility is expected to open in 2010.
The repositioning of the air hub will slash at least a day off shipment times-in-transit for Asian customers while offering a new level of service to the manufacturing region located just north of Shenzhen, not far from Hong Kong.
Currently, the markets of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan account for more than half of UPS’s total intra-Asia volume. Of this, a sizeable proportion of Asia package export volume now originates in southeast China and Hong Kong.
The UPS Shenzhen Intra-Asia hub will be built on a land area of 89,000 square meters (958,000 square feet) and include a dedicated 150,000-square-meter (1.6 million square feet) ramp provided by Shenzhen Airport, an express customs handling unit, sorting facilities and cargo handling areas.
Read MoreTNT sets up new gateway at Osaka Kansai International Airport
TNT announced the opening of its new International Gateway at Japan’s Osaka Kansai International Airport. The TNT International Gateway in Osaka Kansai will not only strengthen the express service capability of TNT’s Northeast Asian International Express Network, it will also shorten the transit time for deliveries into Osaka, from China by one day.
TNT customers will now be able to enjoy the one-stop comprehensive express delivery service between China and Osaka, one of Japan’s key manufacturing hubs, in the shortest possible time. Consignments, leaving Shanghai and other Chinese coastal cities, can now be delivered directly to Osaka Kansai. This time saving is crucial for TNT customers mainly in the electronics and apparel/ textile industries, where time critical deliveries remain one of its most important competitive advantages.
At the same time, Vietnam which has been poised as one of Asia’s key manufacturing economies and is one of the fastest growing exporting countries to Japan in Asia, will also benefit from the shortened transit times to Osaka Kansai.
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