Nightfreight has officially opened its new larger and more technically advanced depot at St Neots in Cambridgeshire. The facility replaces the parcels company’s depot in Cambridge, which it outgrew because of increasing demand.
The new 1,116sqm warehouse is located on the Colmworth Business Park in Eaton Socon and serves businesses throughout Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, operating 21 delivery rounds.
Read MoreThe Finnish transport and logistics company DHL Express, part of the Deutsche Post group logistics companies Danzas and DHL, has said that it would set up a storage facility in Kouvola, Finland, for the transit traffic to Russia.
Read MoreBicycle courier service Losstime Co will become the nation’s first private mail delivery operator on Oct 1 in a limited area within Kyoto Prefecture.
The venture company, based in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, obtained a special mail delivery license on Aug 6 after submitting an application to the Kinki Telecommunications Bureau in July.
The company says it will deliver mail “within about three hours” from being received in central Kyoto at charges that will be decided “in consideration of Japan Post’s mail charges.”
Read MoreFedEx Express on Tuesday launched its first direct flight from the Chinese city of Shenzhen to its hub in Anchorage, Alaska. FedEx has been serving Shenzhen for several years via Japan and its Asian hub at Subic Bay in the Philippines.
The new MD-11 service, operating five days a week, provides customers in South China with 10:30 a.m. next-day delivery to North America, FedEx said. “With nearly 40 percent of all foreign direct investment flowing into China earmarked for the Pearl River Delta, the region has clearly become the primary driver of China’s booming economy,” said David L. Cunningham Jr., president of the Asia Pacific Division of FedEx Express, the largest operating unit of FedEx Corp.
DHL has earmarked USD54m for spending on infrastructure and opening gateways in major Indian airports and ports from next month.
DHL Worldwide’s country manager in India, Chris Callen, said the company will set up its headquarters in New Delhi early next month and then open gateways to Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.
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