Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Dealing with the difficult(GeoPost Corp’s mode of operations)

Posted by | Apr 15, 2004 | |

Looking after a fleet the size of GeoPost’s means taking cost – and risk – seriously. Toby Clark talks to Charlie Shiels, who has to keep the parcels moving.

Charlie Shiels is responsible for the GeoPost fleet – under the livery of both Interlink and and Parceline – and has the unusual title of director of risk and transport – perhaps reflecting the importance of managing safety and security issues in such a large operation. Having been a specification and purchasing engineer at Exel Logistics in the late eighties, he worked for British Airways and Argos, before joining Parceline/GeoPost as general manager transport in 1994. Now a member of GeoPost UK’s senior management team, the 41-year-old is a member of both the Institute of Road Transport Engineers and the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers. Motor Transport met him at his office in the massive Interlink/Parceline hub in Smethwick, just off the M5.

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TNT moves up a gear

Posted by | Apr 15, 2004 | |

It has taken a ‘ten-pound Pom’ more than two years to get the express freight and logistics group back into profit.

Roger Corcoran has a way with words. Not that he speaks much – at least not publicly. Since taking the reins at the express freight and logistics group TNT Australia in September 2001, media engagements have been few and far between. But now, with TNT’s local operations finally in the black for the 12 months to December 31, 2003, it is time to talk. Corcoran wants to set the record straight. It is not all backslapping. Not at all. He seizes the opportunity to reflect on the past. Those deeply flawed strategies that took TNT to the brink a few years ago – and, make no mistake, TNT was another Ansett in the making when Corcoran was appointed managing director – are openly acknowledged and painfully dissected before he tackles the present and future. Indeed, in one sense, discussing the past almost seems a cathartic experience for Corcoran.

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Vital TNT operation to be run out of Dubai hub

Posted by | Apr 14, 2004 | |

TNT has signed an import service agreement with Somal Post, the country’s postal network which means the integrator can access all of Somalia. TNT’s entire Somalia operation will be co-ordinated out of its Middle East, Africa and India hub in Dubai.

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EU to clear planned 70 mln eur aid package to DHL

Posted by | Apr 14, 2004 | |

The European Commission are set to clear a 70 mln eur aid package offered by the German government to Deutsche Post AG’s express delivery service DHL, industry sources said.

DHL Companies Cologne GmbH will put the 70 mln eur towards the cost of constructing a logistics centre at Halle-Leipzig city airport. The total cost of the project is 253 mln eur.

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DHL/Airborne Express agreement covers 6,000 workers

Posted by | Apr 14, 2004 | |

An historic agreement between package-delivery company DHL and Teamster local unions provides job security and pay protections for more than 6,000 union members who previously worked for Airborne Express in US/Canada.

“This historic agreement protects the security of our hardworking members and the security of their families,” said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President. “This agreement will lead to more solid family-wage jobs in the future.”

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