Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Deutsche Post World Net: First quarter on target

Posted by | May 15, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post World Net started the year of 2008 with solid performance in the first quarter: Underlying EBIT rose 6.4 percent to around 1 billion euros, meeting the Group’s own targets. That was despite the fact that the quarter had two working days less than the year-earlier period.

Reported EBIT declined 14.7 percent to 851 million euros due to non-recurring expenses at Deutsche Postbank tied to the crisis on the financial markets. Revenue totaled 15.7 billion euros, up 1.8 percent from the year-earlier period, excluding negative currency effects the increase was around 6 percent.

Deutsche Post World Net is aware of the uncertainties in the world economic development. Even so, at this point in time, the Group has no reason to change its full-year earnings forecast of around 4.2 billion euros in EBIT before non-recurring effects and around 3.2 billion euros in pretax profit.

The MAIL division projects EBIT of around 1.95 billion euros for 2008. The EXPRESS division is expected to generate EBIT of around 500 million euros, while the LOGISTICS division is scheduled to increase EBIT to around 1.05 billion. The FINANCIAL SERVICES segment projects EBIT of around 1.2 billion euros. A loss of around 550 million euros is forecast for Corporate Center / Other.

The guidance of around 4.7 billion euros in EBIT before non-recurring effects for 2009 has also been reaffirmed.

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TNT builds up its Green Fleet Worldwide

Posted by | May 15, 2008 | |

TNT is doubling its effort to cut carbon emissions of its road fleet with the introduction of over 100 electric trucks in the UK, China, and Australia.

TNT Express and Smith Electric Vehicles last Monday launched in London the world’s largest fleet of zero emission electric vehicles. TNT’s new 100-strong fleet of battery-powered ‘Newton’ delivery trucks will replace diesel equivalents over the next 18 months. The 7.5 ton lorries will prevent the release of up to 1,299,000 kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere of towns and cities in the UK each year. The first tranche of 50 trucks will operate from TNT locations in London, Basildon, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, Enfield, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Luton, Northampton, Oxford, Paisley, Preston, and Wolverhampton. The partnership with Smith – the world’s largest manufacturer of road-going commercial electric vehicles – follows an 18-months trial in London. TNT is looking into piloting electric vehicles in all major European cities.

Last week, TNT and Dong Feng Motor Co., China’s largest automaker and manufacturer of electric vehicles, began a trial of two battery-electric delivery vans in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. The trial involves two light electric vans designed, manufactured and assembled in Wuhan by Dong Feng Motor Co. It is TNT’s first zero-emissions test outside of Europe. The vans have a top speed of 80 kph (50 mph), a range of 160-200 km (100-124 miles) and can carry a one ton load.

At the end of April, TNT Express Australia introduced 10 Hino hybrid trucks, becoming the first business in Australia to start operating a fleet of diesel-electric hybrid as replacements for conventionally powered vehicles. The new trucks will reduce TNT’s greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 1,600 kilograms of CO2 a year per vehicle. They emit 14 percent less CO2 and 50 percent less nitrous oxides than a conventional diesel truck of equivalent size.

“Greening our road fleet is a must to achieve TNT’s quest to become the first zero emissions express and mail company,” says TNT CEO Peter Bakker. “TNT is renewing its operations to reduce their environmental impact. Examples range from greener offices and depots to electricity sourcing and innovative electric vehicles.”

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DHL Express France launches new domestic delivery service

Posted by | May 13, 2008 | |

DHL France has launched a new domestic delivery service “D12” for parcels and pallets to be delivered within France before 12 a.m. either within 24 or 48 hours to respond to customer needs for increasingly precise delivery times.

With “D12”, the shippers can rely on exact delivery times for delivery to French cities with more than 5000 inhabitants. The service guarantees delivery of parcels and pallets up to 1000 kg within 1 or 2 days according to the scheduled delivery times of DHL Express.

To use “D12”, DHL customers only need to paste a label on the urgent shipment to signal its priority. There is no need for any advance notice, and items will be picked up together with other national or European shipments and charged for in a standard way without a special invoice. With this label, the shipments have the priority at all stages including loading, transit and delivery. The “D12” shipments can be traced online including signed delivery confirmations and delivery times.

Patrick Aguirregaviria, managing director of DHL Express France’s parcel business, said: “The legal restrictions concerning the speed limits for vehicles in France have re-drawn the borders between courier and domestic express. The express operators have had to review their transport plan and have added surcharges to their service price. Parcel delivery is becoming an alternative but with a new demand for ensuring guaranteed delivery times which D12 responds to.”

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DHL plans new parcel products in Germany

Posted by | May 13, 2008 | |

DHL is responding to customer wishes in Germany by testing new parcel services and plans to simplify its portfolio by re-branding products from next January, a senior manager said.

One innovative new service was parcel deliveries in the evening, Uwe Brinks, managing director DHL Parcel Germany, told last week’s KEP Kongress in Bergisch Gladbach, near Cologne. The parcels company, with revenue of EUR 2.6 billion in 2007, is the German parcel market leader.

Research among 1,500 existing and potential B2B and B2C customers had shown that top priorities included high reliability, low damage, understandable products and good customer service based on “convenience”, Brinks said.

At the same time, competition was intensifying as more parcels operators broadened their portfolios towards a “universal” range of B2B, B2C and C2X products, he pointed out. All parcel operators were also affected by rising costs, he added.

In response to the changing environment, DHL Parcel Germany had adopted the slogan of “ Simple, Always, Everywhere”. In January 2009, it would simplify its complex product branding to “ DHL Paket” for deliveries within Germany, with various add-on options, and to “DHL Europaket/Weltpaket” for international parcels, Brinks said.

Availability was being enhanced with services such as 24/7 self-service parcel drop-off and collection points (Packstations, Paketbox), and parcel tracking by mobile phone.

The KEP Kongress, the 14th annual conference event for the postal, parcels and express sector, was organized by Hamburg-based Deutscher Verkehrs-Verlag.

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