Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL expands French express network with new Lille sorting centre

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

DHL Express France has opened a new centre for sorting, distribution and customs clearance in Lille-Fretin, northern France, to strengthen its air express network in the country.

The new state-of-the-art EUR 1 million facility is part of the company’s large-scale investment in its European network now interconnected through its international hub at Leipzig/Halle, Germany, DHL France said.

Three months of construction work were needed to put the sorting centre into operation including its sorting chain and the air freight security system. The 2,700 sqm facility has sorting capacity of up to 600 parcels an hour. In total, there are about 1,900 import and 1,500 export shipments handled daily at Fretin by 60 employees working at the site. DHL Express employs a total of 73 people in the area, including staff at the two depots at Calais and Amiens.

Security is ensured by X-ray tunnels to control the outbound shipments immediately and on-site. This equipment is in line with the air cargo security regulations of the French civil aviation authority DGAC.

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UPS joins EPA's Climate Leaders program

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

As part of its continued commitment to sustainable business practices, UPS announced its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program.

UPS is the first shipping company to join the program.

Climate Leaders is an industry/government partnership that works with companies to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Partner companies commit to reducing their impact on the global environment by completing a corporate-wide inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, setting aggressive reduction goals and annually reporting their progress to the EPA.

UPS has been a long-time partner of many voluntary programs sponsored by the EPA. These include a charter partner of the SmartWay Transport Partnership program in 2003, the Green Power Partnership, Waste Wise and the Energy Star program. Later this week, UPS will receive the EPA’s SmartWay Environmental Excellence Award for its leadership in conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

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Parcelnet links up with Hermes

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

“We want to be part of the European network as part of Hermes,” Parcelnet’s Managing Director Carole Woodhead said. German-based Hermes is building up a European network with sister companies Parcelnet, Mondial Relay (France) and Porta a Porta (Italy) as well as its subsidiary in Austria.

Parcelnet is currently testing cross-border deliveries from Britain to Germany for TV shopping company QVC, Woodhead said. “More British companies are interested in Europe, and there are European customers with UK shipments,” she commented. The home delivery firm, which has so far used other European carriers for its cross-border shipments, is also in talks with France’s Mondial Relay over cooperation. “In future we want a common service offer,” she added.

Parcelnet currently handles about 110 million parcels a year, has revenues of over GBP 200 million (EUR 257 million) and “is a profitable company”, Woodhead stressed.

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CitySprint takes over PBS Deliveries

Posted by | Oct 6, 2008 | |

CitySprint has today (6th October 2008) acquired Birmingham based courier company PBS Deliveries for an undisclosed sum. This deal expands its unique wholly owned national network whilst further strengthening its established Midlands operations.
CitySprint, with 31 locations, a fleet of over 1500 couriers and is the only national courier that provides its customers with live, real time online tracking of their shipments in progress.
Despite the current economic turmoil CitySprint is continuing with its successful strategy for growth by focussing on organic expansion and strategic add-on acquisitions. CitySprint is determined to use this strategy to maintain its strong foothold in the industry and to continue to grow its market share.
CitySprint believes that by further strengthening its capacity in the UK, and therefore its ability to support its customers, it will be able weather the economic storm as clients look towards a stable and reliable provider.
PBS customers will now benefit from access to considerably enhanced OnLine services. CitySprint operates the largest GPS enabled fleet in Europe which means that its customers benefit from real-time information at the touch of a button. CitySprint has taken the bold step of offering complete transparency to its customers about the courier services they use. From the point of booking CitySprint’s customers can view, through CitySprint’s CourierLocator facility on their website, a real time map location of the courier doing their SameDay Courier delivery and a step by step job progress audit and electronic proof of delivery through QuikTrak.

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FedEx CEO: Economy will come back

Posted by | Oct 6, 2008 | |

FedEx CEO Fred Smith says the economy is stronger than most people realize, and that mountains of cash is “on the sidelines” in emerging markets, waiting to be invested.

Asked in an interview what it would take to turn around the U.S. economy as the credit crisis unfolds, Smith, who founded the global freight carrier, said things in the real economy are not that bad.

“The industrial economy is a lot stronger and more resilient than I think people give it credit for,” Smith told Fortune.

“And there’s an enormous amount of money in China, in the Middle East, and elsewhere that has to be invested. It can’t just be placid on the sidelines. So after a period of trauma and readjustment, my guess is that the economy will come around.”

“They’re showing pretty clearly that the economies of the industrialized world are slow, and that the emerging economies, like China and India and the intra-Asia trade, all continue to grow at pretty good levels but at substantially lower growth rates than was the case a few months or years ago.”

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