Tag: Asia

Japanese Inventors Develop Home Delivery Service Pay-By-Card Method

Posted by | Aug 14, 2006 | |

Takayuki Yamagami of Kyoto, Japan, and Takahiko Kurisu of Tokyo, have developed a pay-by-card method and a pay-by-card system for home delivery service.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: “A home delivery contractor enters into an affiliation contract with a credit card company and also enters into a merchandise price collection consignment contract with a merchandise seller. If a consumer orders merchandise with the merchandise seller on the Internet, then the merchandise seller makes a request to the home delivery contractor for home delivery. Upon receipt of the delivered merchandise, the consumer passes to the home delivery contractor a credit card of the credit card company who has entered into the affiliation contract with the home delivery contractor, whereby the home delivery contractor settles the price for the merchandise with a portable card reader device.”

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,086,590 on Aug. 8.

The patent has been assigned to Sagawa Express Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, and JCB Co. Ltd., Tokyo.

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DHL gets green light to start business in Vietnam

Posted by | Aug 9, 2006 | |

The Vietnamese government has given the green light for German DHL express group to establish a joint venture with a local delivery company, an official said Wednesday.

The government “agreed in principle for DHL to set up an express delivery service joint-venture with the Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT),” an official from the planning and investment ministry told AFP.

DHL will hold 51 percent of the company’s shares while the rest belongs to VNPT, the official said, adding that the 5.5 million dollar venture is scheduled to operate next year in eight cities and provinces.

DHL first came to Vietnam through a sales agent in 1988, a company source said without elaborating.

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UPS Express Stores Debut in Shanghai

Posted by | Aug 7, 2006 | |

UPS, announced on August 2 the formal opening of its two Express stores in Shanghai, the first of its kind in China.

One is located in Hongqiao Business District in Changning District and the other in the downtown areas of Lujiazui Central Business District in Pudong, Shanghai, the economic and commercial hub in eastern China.

The UPS Express stores are expected to bring more convenience to the business offices and small companies in these districts by providing faster delivery and pickup services, Ken Torok, president of UPS Asia Pacific told journalists at an interview.

The stores will offer a full range of shipping options for international shipments including UPS worldwide express plus, UPS worldwide express, UPS 10-kg box delivery services and UPS 25-kg box delivery services. In addition, they will supply customers with professional consulting services.

In recent years, overseas leading express service providers have specialized in expanding logistics market, and now they are also show interest to small mail express business.

State-owned express operator EMS, private express carriers like ZJS Express and overseas operators including FedEx, TNT and DHL kick off overheating competition in China market at present.

But 90 percent of domestic private express operators just run inner-provincial and regional business, industry analysts said.

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China EMS Flies Abroad to Vie for Share

Posted by | Aug 7, 2006 | |

China Postal Airlines, a carrier under the country’s State Post Bureau, flied to Seoul, South Korean, from Beijing Capital Airport, the first international flight for the airline, which will bolster the competitiveness of China’s state-owned express services provider in the overseas express markets.

Insiders said that China Postal Airlines aims at facilitating Express Mail Service (EMS)’s development and competence in competing with the ambitious global giants.

EMS is the express service arm of China Post, the postal services provider under the wing of SPB.

UPS, FedEx, DHL and TNT now possess an absolute monopoly over the express market in global market, meaning China Postal Airlines must scale up investment in fleet, routes and transport capacity so as to rival them.

As a matter of fact, EMS has taken countermeasures to cope with the overheated competition at home and abroad.

Last year, it started to offer overnight and trans-regional operations, which are just fulfilled by the night flights launched by China Postal Airlines.

SPB has planned to construct a center for express and logistics distribution in Lukou Airport in the southern city of Nanjing and marked out 33 routes to the center from cities like Beijing, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Wuhan, Xi’an and Chengdu.

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Alec Ang appointed as General Manager of DHL Express Singapore

Posted by | Aug 4, 2006 | |

DHL, the world’s leading express and logistics company, today announced the appointment of Alec Ang as General Manager, DHL Express Singapore, with immediate effect.

As General Manager, Mr Ang is responsible for the overall running of all DHL Express’ operations in Singapore. He succeeds Mr Teo Ser Luck, who was recently elected as a Member of Parliament.

Mr Ang joins DHL Express Singapore from DHL Global Customer Solutions (GCS), where he was Vice President of Supply Chain Logistics. During his tenure at GCS, he co-authored the 10th edition of the Global Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Survey, which was done to identify and track key trends and views of the 3PL industry from the perspective of customers who use 3PL services. Mr Ang also won DHL the coveted CIO Award at the CIO Asia Conference Awards 2006 for the innovative use of IT to solve supply chain problems for customers, such as applying Optimization technology to determine efficient locations to site Hubs and cross docks.

Mr Ang is a veteran in the logistics industry with over 10 years of experience. He has held senior positions in all sectors of logistics such as Marketing, Strategic Planning, Pricing, Costing and Supply Chain Management, both at country and regional level.

Mr Ang graduated with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and obtained an MBA from Nanyang Technological University. He is also a qualified accountant with a CPA. Recently, he was awarded a scholarship with the Georgia Technological Institute in Atlanta where he completed a graduate course in international supply chain management.

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