Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Norway Post buys Swedish transport firm

Posted by | Jun 10, 2008 | |

Norway Post today continued its Nordic expansion with the acquisition of Swedish road haulage company CombiTrans for an undisclosed sum. The deal will strengthen its logistics activities in the region.

CombiTrans, with 105 employees, had operating profits (EBIT) of SEK 50 million (euro 5.4 million) on revenues of SEK 540 million (euro 57.9 million) in 2007. In 2006, it dispatched 16,000 vehicles and 94,000 consignments with a freight haulage weight of 348,000 tonnes.

The company, set up in 1986, specialises in international road haulage services for single consignments, as well as full and part loads. It covers the whole of Europe, with particular focus on Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and the rest of Eastern Europe, as well as Central Asia and the Middle East. It has offices and terminals in the Swedish towns of Varberg, Malmö, Ystad and Jönköping, as well as in Greece.

Norway Post has expanded strongly in the Nordic region in recent years in order to reduce dependency on the mail market, diversify into growth sectors such as international transportation and logistics, and counter the expansion of multinationals in the region. It has invested over euro 636 million on acquisitions, and aims to double revenues from outside Norway to nearly 50% of group revenues by 2011.

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TNT offers Innight services in the Nordics

Posted by | Jun 10, 2008 | |

TNT is offering Innight distribution in the Nordic region following the launch of dedicated flights between Brussels and several regional airports at the start of June.

The express operator has started up a route between Brussels, Jönköping (southern Sweden) and Helsinki operated with a BAe 146, and two feeder routes operated with Cessnas linking Oslo and Billund (Denmark) to Jönköping.

Tony Jakobsen, Regional General Manager TNT Northern Europe, said TNT was the only international express operator offering such innight distribution services on a scheduled basis.

Stephen Naylor, managing director of TNT Sweden, added that Jönköping was ideally located to act as a hub for innight shipments from Central Europe heading for Nordic destinations. Key customers include the automotive and agricultural sectors.

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SMEs optimistic on intra-Asia trade

Posted by | Jun 9, 2008 | |

US economic woes are rattling Asian SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprices) and caution is the watchword amid chal-lenging times, according to a United Parcel Ser-vice (UPS) survey. Only 39 percent of the 1,200 respondents see growth in trade with the US this year, compared with 51 percent last year. But the majority of the SMEs (71 percent) are confident that intra-Asia trade will remain robust despite the economic woes in other regions.

The confidence in intra-Asia trade is a blessing in disguise for UPS as such enterprises provide the bulk of the freight forwarder’s business in Asia. Joseph Guerrisi, UPS vice-president of marketing for Asia-Pacific, said: “UPS is achieving better than the eight percent global growth it has forecast for freight business in Asia.”

However, surcharges that UPS imposes to help defray its surging fuel costs appear to be damping demand somewhat, and more customers are seeking cheaper shipment options, Woodward said.

A recent silver lining for UPS in Asia has been a higher-than-expected demand for its recent Anchorage-Nagoya-Shanghai service. Another positive development is that demand on some routes in Asia has been strong enough to justify a switch to larger aircraft, Woodward said.

Despite the general Asian bearish outlook, there are pockets of optimism among the Asian SMEs, according to the UPS Asia Business Montor. For example, in India some 87 percent of SMEs are upbeat about business growth prospects, which is most likely because of the country’s less dependence on US trade.

In general, Asian SME0 confidence in growth prospects for 2008 has slipped compared to the robust expectations last year, in light of the US economic slowdown, the survey shows.

Optimism has slipped across the region from 57 percent in 2007 to 52 percent in 2008 and a sentiment of caution pervades among SMEs. Half of the companies surveyed feel they will not perform quite as well as they did in 2007. China has slipped from second to fifth position in business prospects for 2008, surpassed by the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia while Japan SME’s confidence has dropped by 10 percent.

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DHL expands coverage for urgent deliveries in Russia

Posted by | Jun 9, 2008 | |

DHL’s Time Definite service expanded with over 10 000 new city pairs opened for Domestic Express 9:00 and Domestic Express 12:00 in the Russian market this year. This wide level of coverage for pre-9 and pre-12 services is unmatched by any of DHL’s competitors in the Russian market. It gives customers an unprecedented opportunity to deliver business materials to their customers in cities such as Noyabrsk in Siberia’s oil and gas heartland and Nakhodka, a port on the Pacific coast, with added urgency and reliability.

“DHL Express Russia started preparations for the geographical expansion of its Domestic Express 9:00 and Domestic Express 12:00 products around 3 years ago, and the rapid broadening of our coverage in 2008 reflects the intensive work by our Product Group, Operations, Customer Service and regional staff in particular,’ noted Natalia Bochkova, Head of Commercial Russia, ‘We expect that the investments we have made in all the process, equipment and performance measurements will provide services to the Russian market with on-time delivery as expected by our customers. We’re proud to be the first company in Russia offering this unique product range and coverage.’

The extensive expansion of Time Definite products responds to the growing demand for higher service levels amongst Russian customers as they increase their volumes in the Russian regions outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The extended service puts DHL in the lead in an increasingly competitive growth market.

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DHL aims to impart beach safety knowledge to children with “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience”

Posted by | Jun 9, 2008 | |

DHL has held its “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience” on 8 June 2008, almost one month before the beach open this summer.

The event, which aimed to teach children about water and beach safety, was held at Shirahama Ohama Beach in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture.

The “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience” reflects one of DHL Japan’s core themes in its Corporate Sustainability initiatives, which is “Supporting Future Generations”.

The event this year marks the fifth time it has been organized, with the inaugural event taking place in 2004.

This year’s event was held in conjunction with the “21st All-Japan Lifesaving Multi-Category Championship”, held on 7 and 8 June at the same beach.

The children were able to gain an understanding of lifesaving activities with a talk on “Safety In The Water” by local lifesavers, with the objective of educating the children on safety at the beach.

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