Tag: Asia

DHL opens new Korea service centre

Posted by | Dec 18, 2007 | |

DHL Express Korea officially opened its service centre in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, allowing it to strengthen the logistics network in the region.

The Suwon Service Centre in Youngtong-gu, Woncheon-dong, is part of the company’s plans to improve its domestic network infrastructure to provide more efficient services.

DHL Express Korea has been steadily investing in the local market for the past few years, opening ten new and renovated service centers in the past two years. The centres are part of DHL’s strategy to strengthen its leading position in Korea’s express and logistics market.

Alan Cassels, country manager of DHL Express Korea, said the new DHL service center in Suwon allowed the company to further strengthen service capacity, particularly in support of major exporters, providing better and faster services to customers with even greater efficiency.

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India Post may be selected for outsourcing

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

IMG Khan, Secretary to the Department of Posts aid the Universal Postal Union (UPU) is likely to prefer India’s Department of Posts, one of the biggest postal services in the world, for outsourcing postal services across the world.

In his inaugural address after laying the foundation stone for the Technology Development Centre on the Postal Training Centre campus here, Khan said he held talks with the Director General of Universal Postal Union, Switzerland, and informed him that the Union could decentralise its services to India.

“The India Post is capable of taking the challenge and help provide technology services, maitain and implement them,” he stated. The secretary said the software technology developed at the PTC in Mysore had gone overseas.

Soon, the South Asia Postal Union will come into existence. India will be in a position to offer more technological solutions and services for the World when the Technology Development Centre in Mysore operates to its full strength.

The Director General of Universal Postal Union was positive on India’s strengths. The UPU, in all probability, will decentralise its services to India Post soon, he hoped.

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DHL gives Transmile chance to rebuild reputation

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL is maintaining its business relationship with loss-making Transmile Group Bhd, which was hit by massive accounting irregularities, and wants to give it a chance to turn around and rebuild its reputation.

DHL Asia Pacific chief executive officer Daniel McHugh said the leading courier services provider still has a “good, open relationship” with Transmile, and was in talks weekly on the challenges both companies faced. “Discussions go on every week with Transmile on how we operate our network, and how they operate their network.”

McHugh said DHL had a long-term business relationship with Transmile and it was willing to give the latter a second chance to rebuild its reputation, as it had done so with US-based Northwest Airlines.

Transmile plunged into the red and it had to restate its financial accounts after massive accounting irregularities were revealed this year.

Transmile provides express air cargo service to DHL, its single largest customer. It has said that DHL is expected to contribute almost half of its revenue from July 2007 to June 2008.

McHugh added Transmile was a component of DHL’s global aviation strategy by operating in multiple sectors in Asia. For instance, it undertook short haul flights, including the Bangkok-Singapore, Singapore-Jakarta and Beijing-Hong Kong routes.

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DHL and Fujitsu commended for efforts in Green Logistics

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL was commended today – along with Fujitsu Ltd – by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry for its DHL Exel Supply Chain business unit (trading in Japan under then name DHL Supply Chain Ltd) reducing CO2 emissions by 20 pct, or just over 300 tons per annum.

The Green Logistics Partnership Promotion Project seeks to reduce CO2 emissions by enhancing partnerships between shippers and logistics suppliers. Under the 2006 Green Logistics Partnership Project business model, DHL and Fujitsu have successfully reduced CO2 emissions by utilizing concentrated vehicle allocation control, consistently from point of sourcing to product delivery.

Three criteria were the basis for receiving the award: the shipper and logistics provider working together throughout the supply chain process in order to streamline the logistics operation; structuring the advanced tool for automatically calculating CO2 amount emitted based on the data both of actual measuring by in-vehicle terminal and of transportation detail; and. implementation of multiple measures to streamline logistics process, introducing site consolidation and electronic data processing.

DHL has a logistics outsourcing agreement with Fujitsu to fulfill most of its logistics needs in Japan, including the delivery operations cited above, truck trunking, rail transport network, warehouse management, packaging material design, reverse logistics services, service parts delivery, heavy machinery installation and the recycling of information technology devices.

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Pitney Bowes Boosts Asia Pacific & Middle East (APME) Management Team with Three Senior Appointments

Posted by | Dec 14, 2007 | |

Following the recent opening of its regional headquarters in Singapore, Pitney Bowes Inc. the leading mailstream technology company, has strengthened its bid for expansion into the Asia Pacific and Middle East region with the appointment of I.T. industry veteran Eric-Yves Mahe as President for Pitney Bowes Asia Pacific & Middle East (APME).

Mahe will be responsible for all direct operations and distributors in the region. He brings with him more than 20 years experience in the IT industry with several multinational companies including Computer Associates Inc. where, as Vice President and General Manager for North Asia, he oversaw business operations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Mahe was previously also Senior Director of Sales for Asia Pacific Global Services at Sun Microsystems where he played a key role in building the new Asia Pacific Support Services and Professional Services Sales Operations which spanned five Asia Pacific regions and twenty-three countries.

Said Patrick Keddy, Executive Vice-President and President, Pitney Bowes International, ”I am confident that Eric’s 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and keen understanding of the Asian market will be instrumental in Pitney Bowes’ expansion in the Asia Pacific and Middle East region and we look forward to his contributions.”

In addition, Pitney Bowes also announced the appointment of two other senior executives in newly created positions, reporting into Mahe: Lynette Koh to the role of Vice President, Marketing & Postal Relations, Asia Pacific & Middle-East, and Loh Eng Ee as Vice-President, Services, Asia Pacific & Middle-East.

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