Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

FedEx announces increase in daily capacity between Vietnam and global markets

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

FedEx Express announced it had launched a new Airbus A310 flight service to Vietnam to meet the country’s increasing demand for reliable time-definite express services. The new service increases FedEx capacity into and out of the country fivefold, to more than 30,000kg a day.

As a result of the new service, customers also enjoy an improvement in transit times into and out of the capital, Hanoi. Customer cut-off and transit times out of Ho Chi Minh City are unchanged.

Since FedEx first established operations in Vietnam in 1994, the company has worked to support the country’s efforts to become a key export market.

The upgraded Vietnam service also strengthens FedEx AsiaOne Network, which connects 19 key Asia cities with more than 400 intra-Asia flights each week. The network is interconnected with FedEx global network – covering North and South America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

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Trans-o-flex opens sorting centre in Austria

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

trans-o-flex announced the opening of its fourth sorting centre in Austria to broaden its network for temperature-controlled distribution services.

The new sorting centre near Graz is being operated by Scherübl, a subsidiary of the trans-o-flex unit ThermoMed, and is its fourth depot in Austria, thus completing its national distribution network.

Scherübl, which specialises in transporting temperature-controlled shipments for the pharmaceutical and health industries, can now offer next-day delivery across Austria. The connection with the network of ThermoMed enables it to provide temperature-controlled transports to and from Germany.

The building was constructed within 14 weeks and is located in Karlsdorf (Styria), Austria, near Graz airport, where Scherübl can share the outside truck waiting area with a neighbouring postal centre. It lies conveniently at the motorway junction of A2 and A9.

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DHL: business slowing in China

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

The rate of growth in DHL China has decreased by 15 pct the first seven months of the current year. The average growth rate a year earlier was 20 pct. “The company achieved an annual growth rate of 20-23 pct in the past five years,” reported Dan McHugh, DHL’s Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific region, in an article published in the Chinese periodical “Logistics Week.” The decline is said to be due to weakening demand in Europe and the USA for exports from China.

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DHL Ukraine opens cargo terminal in Kiev

Posted by | Sep 23, 2008 | |

DHL Ukraine has opened a cargo terminal for exported and imported goods in Kiev mainly due to the increasing demand for transport services on the Ukrainian market, the Ukrainian News Agency reported.

The EUR 12 million terminal complex consists of a customs warehouse, a cargo handling zone, DHL Ukraine’s main office, and the Kiev Regional Customs department for administering courier services, DHL Ukraine managing director Boris Khruslov said at a press conference.

The terminal has a total area of over 8,000 sqm, including 5,000 sqm operating space with a sorting capacity of about 320,000 tons per month. Moreover, it has enough equipment to process air containers.

In addition, DHL has re-equipped its facilities in Odessa and Donetsk and intends to do the same in Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk.

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DPD Switzerland to invest in new eco-depot

Posted by | Sep 23, 2008 | |

DPD Switzerland has announced the building of a new ecological depot in Buchs, in the canton of Zurich, which will go into operation on 1 October 2009.

The new logistics centre will be constructed based on a coherent ecological concept on a 20,000-sqm land to be sold by the community of Buchs for an amount of EUR 5.2 million.

The new centre will be constructed with low land consumption, thanks to the u-form of the building, and based on a completely sustainable energy supply through heat recovery from ground water and about 1,000-sqm of solar cells producing 125,000 kWH of energy yearly.

DPD will lease the new building including a total of 28 unloading bays, 99 loading bays and an office building with the option to be extended at a later point of time. The company says that the new depot will generate a total of 220 jobs.

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