Bike Kyubin Co. and three other private courier companies on Tuesday began special mail delivery services designating delivery time. The three others are QCargo Co., Q-Post and Pro Support. The moves follow the creation April 1 of Japan Post to take over mail delivery and postal savings from the governmental Postal Services Agency as part of postal service deregulation.
Read MoreThe trans-Atlantic dispute among the world’s package delivery giants over the ownership of DHL Airways has grown even nastier. FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service have asked the administrative law judge overseeing the case to hold the chief executives of Deutsche Post World Net and DHL International in contempt for refusing to comply with the judge’s order to testify about their relationship with DHL Airways, a U.S.-based cargo airline with approximately 34 aircraft. Deutsche Post and DHL, in turn, have asked the judge to quash the subpoenas ordering Klaus Zumwinkel, chief executive of Deutsche Post, and Uwe Doerken, chief executive of DHL International, to testify.
Read MoreMail, express and logistics company TPG N.V., has commenced the operation of a new Boeing 737-300F aircraft in its TNT Express European air network. It is the first time TNT Airways will be using B737 aircraft as part of its air fleet operations.
Read MoreExpress parcel carrier Parceline has launched desk-to-desk, a new service delivering urgent parcels directly to a named recipient. The launch of this service shows Parceline’s focus on the premium end of the market and, if successful, could be the first step towards more personalized services in the express delivery market. The new desk-to-desk service is available to all Parceline’s Lasernet or EDI customers and ensures the delivery of urgent documents or parcels to a named recipient at a specified location within a particular organization. The idea behind this service is that it will drastically reduce the time it takes office workers to receive parcels by trusting the entire service to Parceline rather than to the internal mail system of the company in question.
Read MoreGeodis UK’s Glasgow facility earlier this month picked up a new contract to provide locally based first aid equipment supplier Wallace Cameron with most of its distribution and logistics needs.
Glasgow, one of six multiuser sites operated by Geodis across the country, was extended in April when an air and sea freight operation launched there. And it is already pleasingly full, reports sales director Tony d’Arcy.
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