Tag: Asia

DHL turns off the lights for World Environment Day

Posted by | Jun 5, 2008 | |

DHL has launched the DHL “Lights Off” initiative on World Environmental Day, designed to drive environmental consciousness among employees by turning off their lights in DHL offices across the world for one hour.

Emblematic of DHL’s commitment to reducing its environmental impact, the initiative is part of the company’s GoGreen Program that was launched in April this year. The program brings together all elements of its climate change initiatives and will work to improve DHL’s carbon efficiency by 30 percent by 2020 when compared to 2007 levels.

“Lights Off” aims to increase the environmental awareness of DHL employees and promotes the responsible use of energy. DHL encourages staff to adjust their daily habits in terms of paper, water and resource usage thereby contributing to making it a more environmentally-friendly company.

“Lights Off” is one of many projects within the GoGreen offering that works to facilitate a long-term cultural change toward being more environmentally responsible. For example, DHL has been engaging employees to reduce their environmental impact through a driver awareness program – helping drivers to understand the significant impact their driving behavior can have on DHL’s fuel efficiency. Further DHL offices worldwide organized various awareness campaigns to provide employees with the opportunity to adapt and demonstrate more sustainable practices in their daily lives.

The World Environment Day, held each year on June 5, is one of the principal events through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action

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Indonesian Postal Authority Extends Email Access to Remote Population with Critical Path’s Memova Messaging

Posted by | Jun 4, 2008 | |

Critical Path, Inc. a leading provider of messaging software and services, today announced that PT Pos Indonesia, the state-owned Postal Authority of Indonesia, has deployed Memova Messaging to provide email services to consumers and businesses throughout Indonesia. Aimed at decreasing the digital divide, the new email services can be accessed from any Indonesian post office.

In Indonesia, a significant portion of the population does not currently have Internet or email access in the home or workplace. As a result, the Indonesian Postal Authority and DEKOPIN, the Indonesia Cooperative Council, are working together to bring information and communications technology to Indonesians in remote areas in an effort to increase commerce and business opportunities throughout the country. Critical Path’s Memova Messaging platform is being used to power the new email services, which are accessible through the DEKOPIN e-commerce portal jointly provided by PT Pos Indonesia and DEKOPIN. Indonesians can check email and conduct online commerce through the portal at any post office or via the Internet.

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Japan Post to use only electric cars by '15

Posted by | Jun 3, 2008 | |

Japan Post Service Co., which belongs to Japan Post Holdings Co., announced Monday that it is planning to gradually introduce electric cars to replace and eventually phase out its current fleet of automobiles over the next eight years to help reduce levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

The company owns about 22,000 lightfreight cars that are used to deliver mail and about 1,000 passenger cars that are used for business purposes. It has already adopted some hybrid cars as part of its fleet.

The company’s gasoline costs total about 10 billion yen a year. By incorporating more hybrid cars as part of its fleet the company expects to reduce gasoline costs.

Japan Post said the change to electric cars will be a good fit for short-distance deliveries and business use, due to battery technology advancements. Currently, the company has called for several automakers to become involved in the development of battery operated cars and also approached them to develop battery operated bikes.

It will be necessary for the company to provide recharging points for the vehicles at 1,092 post offices across the country.

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Japan Post looking to switch fleet to electric cars

Posted by | Jun 2, 2008 | |

Japan’s postal services system is looking to switch its entire fleet of about 21,000 short-distance delivery vehicles to zero-emission electric cars starting this business year, it said on Monday.

Depending on how fast the cars and necessary infrastructure such as recharging stations could be ready, the company may use some gasoline-electric hybrid cars in the interim, he said.

Among Japanese automakers, Mitsubishi Motors Corp, Subaru maker Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd and Nissan Motor Co are aggressively developing electric cars, which emit little to no harmful emissions but require large loads of batteries to drive relatively short distances. The time required to recharge the batteries is also a hurdle with current technology.

All three automakers have said they aim to commercialise electric cars by 2010.

Shares of vehicle-use battery makers surged after the Nikkei business daily reported Japan Post’s plan on Monday. Furukawa Battery Co surged 16 percent, GS Yuasa Corp., which has a battery joint venture with Mitsubishi Motors, jumped 7 percent, and Sanyo Electric Co put on 5.6 percent.

Hitachi Maxell Ltd gained 6.5 percent. A spokesman there confirmed a Nikkei evening edition report that it is aiming to commercialise a longer-lasting, cheaper lithium-ion battery in the next three to four years that substitutes expensive cobalt with manganese.

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Japan Post distributes ING insurance products

Posted by | Jun 2, 2008 | |

Selling life insurance products is the third new service that the Japan Post Group has been allowed to undertake since its privatisation started in October last year.

The Japan Post Group has started distributing ING Life Japan’s life insurance products, the latest service that it has been allowed to do following its privatisation last year.

Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Network are selling ING Life Japan’s single premium variable annuity products. Japan Post Insurance sells the firm’s corporate-owned life insurance products.

The partnership will allow ING to increase top line growth in the hard-to-penetrate Japanese market, which is one of the world’s largest life insurance markets. It will extend ING’s existing distribution network of 50 banks and securities houses for SPVA products and nearly 6,000 independent agents for COLI products.

ING Life Japan, a unit of Netherlands-based ING, launched its business in 1986 as the first European life insurance company in Japan and was the first company to introduce variable annuity products to the Japanese market.

Japan Post Bank, Japan Post Network and Japan Post Insurance are all part of the Japan Post Group, and are privatised entities formed following the privatisation of the former Government postal service.

Japan Post Network and Japan Post Bank have also started selling variable annuity insurance products for Sumitomo Life Insurance, Mitsui Sumitomo MetLife Insurance and Alico Japan. The products will initially be sold at 161 outlets across the country, which will expand to about 320 by October.

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