DHL world’s leading express and logistics company announced Tuesday that in response to growing demand for shipments delivered within Asia Pacific, it has unleashed a marketing campaign that will run in Asia Pacific aimed at reinforcing the company’s leadership position in the region. The campaign underlines growing importance of Asia Pacific region in DHL’s global business portfolio.
Read MoreChina’s State Postal Bureau (China Post) plans to split off its courier business, known as EMS, and restructure it into a joint-stock national chain to stem the further erosion of its market share by foreign rivals, such as DHL, FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service Inc (UPS). “The plan is to split off EMS by the end of this year and turn it into a national express mail chain responsible for its own losses or gains,” an industry source said.
Read MoreJapan Post President Masaharu Ikuta said Wednesday he plans to strengthen international competitiveness of the public corporation’s postal service so that it can expand its mail delivery service to other Asian countries.
Speaking at a lecture for Kyodo News subscribers in Tokyo, Ikuta said, “We are making a belated attempt to boost our international competitiveness in order to advance into other Asian markets.”
Read MoreDHL, the world’s leading express and logistics company, has enhanced its Time Definite Delivery (TDD) service across Asia and the Pacific region as demand increases for such services.
In a statement, DHL said TDD service, which offers the latest possible collection times for guaranteed early next-day deliveries, would be expanded to include declared-value packages up to a certain limit. It said TDD, which comprises of StartDay Express offering next day door-to-door delivery by 9am and MidDay Express which offers next day door-to-door delivery by noon, previously only catered to documents.
Read MoreFedEx, Asia’s No2 courier company by sales, does not expect its new Asia-Pacific hub to open for at least six years, according to depositions it made to the United States Department of Transportation at the weekend.
The company, which is courting the managers of airports in Guangzhou and the Philippines, said hurdles such as operating and customs agreements had to be overcome before construction of a “major physical plant, representing an extremely significant investment”, could begin. FedEx was responding to official queries from rival United Parcel Service (UPS) about why it had applied for more flights to Shenzhen next month under the new Sino-US air services agreement if Guangzhou was the “frontrunner” to become its Asia-Pacific hub.
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