UK – Eurocargo breakthrough
In early July, ABX LOGISTICS (UK) LIMITED signed an agreement giving it ownership of the European Freight Forwarding Division of Nightfreight International Logistics Ltd.
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TNT quietly builds US presence
Despite investing over $20 million in the US, it has no plans to take on FedEx,
UPS. The brouhaha over Deutsche Post’s takeover of DHL Worldwide Express has
overshadowed recent initiatives by TNT to expand its business in the U.S.
While DHL, whose ownership status is being challenged by FedEx and United
Parcel Service, hopes to play in the same league here as the two giant
integrators. TNT has no such aspirations. Still, TNT, whose customers include Abbott Laboratories, Pepsico, Playboy and the World Bank, has quietly ramped up its presence in the U.S. Over the past two years, it’s invested $20.5 million in the U.S., primarily in technology, depots and trucks.
FedEx Invests in Caribbean Delivery Market
FedEx Express is expanding services in Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles through an accord with the government-owned Netherlands Antilles Post postal system
Read MoreUPS mulling Chile alliance
United Parcel Service is considering an alliance with Chilexpress or Lan Courier to operate nationwide in Chile, according to published reports. UPS has in the past worked with Lan Courier, a Chilean express provider, and is now working with Chilexpress, also a courier service.
Chile’s package delivery market has grown by about 10% in 2001.
Is this tomorrow's letterbox?
As mail order and e-commerce have exploded in recent years, the Post Office is looking at new ways to cope with the demand for home deliveries. Later this year the Post Office, now called Consignia, will begin trials of a new system where secure metal containers, the size of washing machines, are placed outside selected homes in several hundred London locations with an SW postcode. Each device, known as a Bear Box (right), has a computer code that allows it to be opened. Once the goods are deposited the customer is alerted via email or text message
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