Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

AStar proclaims independence as trial gets under way

Posted by | Aug 27, 2003 | |

The long-awaited public hearing regarding AStar Air Cargo’s citizenship began on Tuesday with the airline and its competitors laying out their arguments in the case. John Dasburg, chairman and chief executive of AStar, formerly DHL Airways, took the stand as the first witness, saying he took the helm of the company only after he was assured that he would have no higher-ups to answer to. Dasburg and the AStar legal team sought to quash arguments by FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service lawyers that foreign interest, namely German postal company Deutsche Post World Net, exert undue control over Miami-based AStar.

U.S. law requires airlines that fly within the U.S. meet corporate citizenship requirements, including that they be under “actual control” of U.S. interests.

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FedEx US hub sign of new growth

Posted by | Aug 27, 2003 | |

With the announcement by Fed-Ex Ground of a new Boone County hub, set to employ 500 workers at first and many as 2,400 by 2005, Northern Kentucky has landed its first major jobs expansion deal since 1999.

The new distribution hub announced Monday is the second of 10 such facilities being built nationwide as part of the shipping company’s $1.8 billion expansion plan. If all goes well for the site, at full capacity, it will employ about 2,400 people processing 45,000 packages per hour.

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Securicor puts aside £120m for acquisitions

Posted by | Aug 27, 2003 | |

Securicor has budgeted up to GBP120m (USD202m) for acquisitions in an effort to become one of the world’s three largest security services groups.

Nick Buckles, chief executive, said that if United Technologies, the US industrial group that acquired Chubb in June, decided to put any of the security services company’s businesses up for sale, Securicor would be keen to bid.

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FedEx Ground Selects Northern Kentucky Site for New Central Region Distribution Hub

Posted by | Aug 26, 2003 | |

FedEx Ground, an operating unit of FedEx Corporation has chosen a 96-acre site in Boone County, Ky., as the location for a new 335,000 square-foot distribution hub to be opened in 2005. The new distribution center will feature the latest automated package sortation technology and will be the third of 10 such facilities built over the next six years as part of the company’s USD1.8 billion network expansion plan. Announced in September 2002, the plan also calls for the expansion of 23 existing hubs and the relocation of more than 300 pickup and delivery terminals. The nationwide expansion will nearly double the company’s average daily volume capacity from 2.5 million to 4.8 million packages in response to increasing customer demand.

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UPS Introduces Enhanced Service To Synchronize Overseas Supply Chain

Posted by | Aug 26, 2003 | |

UPS today announced a newly enhanced service, called Supplier Management, that coordinates the logistics activity of international vendors and suppliers on a customer’s behalf for a seamless supply chain. The service was introduced today at MAGIC, an international apparel show. “UPS has once again made it easier for customers to conduct commerce globally with an innovative international service that manages multiple vendors and suppliers despite varying languages, cultures, time zones and distances,” said Bob Garrison, UPS Supply Chain Solutions.

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