Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

UPS spends USD 1.3M lobbying

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

UPS Inc. spent more than USD1.3 million in the second quarter to lobby on issues including its plan to carry air packages in North America for DHL, according to a recent disclosure form.

The Atlanta-based company also lobbied on the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, appropriations for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, as well as legislation dealing with patent reform, data security and health care policy.

UPS also lobbied on aviation safety issues and technology, as well as UPS’ “proposed airlift agreement with DHL,” according to the form posted online July 16 by the House clerk’s office.

The second quarter runs from April through June. On May 28, UPS announced it was seeking to work out a contract with DHL that would involve UPS providing the air transport of DHL packages between airports in North America, but not the pickup or delivery of DHL packages to customers.

UPS asserts the federal government does not have authority over the vendor relationship.

Besides Congress, UPS lobbied the departments of Transportation, Homeland Security, labor and other agencies in the April through June period.

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DHL Express Singapore Renames Product Portfolio to Reflect Time Specific Services

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

DHL announced that it has completed an across-the-board portfolio renaming of its best-in-class products in Singapore. The renaming exercise is part of the global alignment of product portfolio which began in more than 220 countries and territories serviced by DHL’s global network in January 2008, and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Its completion has enabled DHL Express Singapore to harmonize a variety of product names to a single set of standard, logical and easy-to-understand names that aids recall and helps customers to select the products that best meet their express shipping needs.

The new names reflect the time specific nature of shipments to their destinations. By offering products based on a logical system of time-definite and day-definite choices, customers can now choose product services that offer flexibility and reliability based on speed, destinations and weights.

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FedEx Ground names Entrepreneurs of the Year (USA)

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

FedEx Ground recognized three small business owners with one of the company’s highest honors for independent contractors. Keith Herzig of Hartford, Conn., Sunil K. Patel of Philadelphia and Raymond Skiptunis of Trenton, N.J., were named FedEx Ground Entrepreneurs of the Year at a banquet recognizing them for their business development, customer service results, safety record, and community support.
The FedEx Ground Entrepreneur of the Year honor was established in 2007 to pay tribute to those independent contractors who have built businesses that most consistently go the extra mile to safely deliver superior customer service, help fellow independent contractors succeed, and support their local communities. Of the more than 13,000 independent contractors supporting the FedEx Ground network, Herzig, Patel and Skiptunis were recognized for best exemplifying these traits in 2007-2008.
Since the founding of the Entrepreneur of the Year program, FedEx Ground has named 140 regional honorees. Herzig, Patel and Skiptunis were selected from a group of 20 finalists from this year’s regional winners.

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SMEs turn to TNT Post (UK)

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

TNT Post announces the addition of its 2000th SME customer.
Cunard, the luxury cruise line which is part of Carnival Corporation and PLC, has become TNT Post’s 2000th SME customer. Cunard will now send its customer loyalty magazine and marketing literature via TNT Post in varying delivery volumes of up to 67,000 mail items every three months. Despite its adhoc mailing volumes, Cunard has been using TNT Post’s PremierSort Flex service to access the benefits, service levels and cost savings enjoyed by larger organisations as a result of the liberalised market. PremierSort Flex is a day definite mailing solution that has been designed specifically to benefit local and SME businesses that send upwards of 250 unsorted mail items per day or have weekly, monthly or irregular mailshot requirements.
TNT Post has witnessed its SME customer base grow from 600 customers in July 2007 to 2000 this month, demonstrating an increase of more than 300 per cent in 12 months.

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UPS looks to China for M&A

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

United Parcel Service hopes to buy a firm in China and boost staff there in coming years.

UPS, a bellwether of the U.S. economy along with rival FedEx Corp, last month posted earnings in line with expectations but hit by rising fuel costs and a weak economy.

Trying to drive growth beyond a U.S. market that accounts for more than half its revenue, UPS will be opening two USD 180 million transport hubs in China and wants to nearly quadruple its staffing there in the next few years, hoping to serve growing demand for delivery services within a relatively untapped market.

“U.S. consumers are not buying, but I think the great opportunity for us internationally is business that never touches U.S. shores,” Dan Brutto, the president of the company’s international business, told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

UPS has doubled its headcount in China over the past 18 months to around 5,300, but expects that number to increase by at least 1,000 annually over the next 3-4 years, said Brutto.

It’s now looking for acquisitions within the world’s fourth largest economy, despite fears that Chinese growth will taper off over 2008 and 2009.

“You could say UPS China should really have 25,000 employees. The business is out there,” Brutto said.

(USD=6.85 yuan)

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