Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL and Borderlinx partner to simplify international e-commerce

Posted by | Apr 29, 2008 | |

Delivery and logistics company DHL International GmbH and U.K.-based Borderlinx, a company that helps businesses ship goods from a number of suppliers, have partnered to assist U.S. e-retailers selling internationally. The deal aims to make it easy for U.S. e-retailers to ship abroad, and for foreign consumers to know how much they will pay for shipping.

Under the agreement, U.S. online retailers can integrate directly with Borderlinx to make their products available to the international marketplace. The integration provides web merchants with such services as order fulfillment and warehousing and shipping and delivery services out of DHL’s primary ground hub in Wilmington, OH, to any of the 225 countries and territories to which DHL ships. The hub location allows easy access to international flights, as well as late cut-off times for orders, according to DHL.

The five-year deal is aimed squarely at what Borderlinx founder Neill O’Sullivan says is huge demand among international consumers to shop U.S. e-commerce sites. Only a small percentage of the top 500 U.S. Internet retailers ship internationally, and O’Sullivan says the deal removes two key barriers preventing U.S. e-retailers from doing so—the inability of U.S. online retailers to easily sell and ship to foreign consumers, and the reluctance of an international shopper to complete a purchase without knowing the shipping fee.

When a U.S. merchant ties into the U.S. DHL/Borderlinx platform, consumers from abroad will see an international shipping button during the checkout process. A click of that button passes the transaction to Borderlinx, which calculates the total cost of getting the order from the merchant to the international customer, including the product price, the shipping costs and a Borderlinx service charge of about 10% of the product price.

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Night Star Express targets strong volume growth

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Night Star Express has announced a 5 pct increase in volumes to 3 million shipments for 2007 to strengthen its position as one of the leading freight forwarding companies providing overnight delivery. This year it is targeting double-digit growth.

The positive development comes from a consistent strategy in quality and growth, said the night express operator, which is a cooperation between eight medium-sized German freight forwarding companies providing pre-8 a.m. delivery within Germany and to neighbouring countries. The company has some 550 staff and 500 vehicles.

“Night Star Express has grown organically and is very well positioned. Moreover, deliveries to other European countries have been expanded”, pointed out managing director Matthias Hohmann.

“In 2008, we are aiming at a double-digit increase in shipment volumes. The overnight express market is growing in line with the whole CEP market, which has already been obvious during the first months of this year. As a specialised supplier focusing on quality, we provide individual and customised services generating further shipment volumes within our niche market. We provide our customers with one-stop comprehensive overnight and logistic services to which we owe our success during the last 15 years”, added Hohmann.

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Deutsche Post up on talk of FedEx interest: traders

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Shares in Deutsche Post rose on Monday as traders cited market talk that U.S. package delivery company FedEx Corp was interested in buying a stake in the German mail and logistics group.

“There are rumors that FedEx wants to buy a 14-percent stake in Deutsche Post,” one trader said.

Deutsche Post had no immediate comment.

Deutsche Post shares were up 1.5 percent at 20.40 euro by 6:34 a.m. EDT, while Germany’s top-30 index .GDAXI was up 0.9 percent.

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TNT Express reorganises German regions

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

TNT Express has reorganised its German regions and reassigned responsibilities. Bernd Wietrychowski, regional director north until now, has assumed the newly created position of director of regions. Bernd Jacobsen succeeds him as regional director north.

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Germany to launch second wave of tax fraud probes

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

German tax authorities are to launch a new wave of 20 separate tax evasion investigations in the next two weeks, a press report said Friday, after a first push netted hundreds of millions of euros.
The probes would mainly concern people in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and would focus on family foundations suspected of being used to hide between 10-20 million euros (15-30 million dollars) of embezzled money, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported, citing an unnamed investigator.
Since late March, there have been about 30 raids, with 120 residences and offices searched, the newspaper said.
German tax evasion recently came into the spotlight as authorities launched a nationwide probe, netting more than 100 suspects including Klaus Zumwinkel, the former head of the logistics giant Deutsche Post, which owns DHL.
Most of those cases involved Germans allegedly avoiding payment of taxes by shifting funds to the alpine tax haven of Liechtenstein.
On Friday, Sueddeutsche Zeitung said authorities had recovered about 500 million euros from about 200 people who came forward on their own.
The government acknowledged in February that it had paid more than four million euros to an informer for bank data that led to the biggest tax fraud probe ever in the country and sparked similar investigations around the globe.
Another 230 people not related to the Liechtenstein affair have also contacted authorities after they too neglected to pay taxes, the report said.
Bochum prosecutors planned to start bringing charges against suspects within a few months, and were likely to bring charges against Zumwinkel later this year, it added.

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