Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

TNT aims for regional logistics hub in Thailand

Posted by | Apr 21, 2008 | |

TNT Express is aiming to be the logistics gateway for the Greater Mekong region now that it has completed its huge depot in Rangsit, Pathum Thani.
The 3,465-square-metre depot will officially open next month, said Alan Miu, TNT’s Thailand country manager.
The depot will serve as its distribution centre and link with 26 outlets nationwide to tap into double-digit demand growth.
The network’s coverage area includes southern China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, the countries through which the Mekong River travels.
The logistics network in the Greater Mekong is a part of sub-regional pact to connect transport routes running through China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
The company said its logistics facilities across Asia would help its network link more than 120 cities with a full range of logistics services in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and China.
Thailand has strong potential as it serves as a production base for various industries such as automobiles, electronics and medical care.
Mr Miu said the new depot was one of the group’s major investment projects in Asia; it has a total budget of 100 million euros to spend from 2008 to 2012.
The budget will be used for expansion of its air express fleet, trucks and depots. Logistics networks in Thailand also cover the group’s time-critical express delivery service, which offers services for goods that require rush delivery.

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TNT tops Royal Mail on branding

Posted by | Apr 21, 2008 | |

TNT has been classed a Business Superbrand ahead of rival Royal Mail in a recent YouGov survey of the UK’s strongest B2B brands for 2008.

The survey was commissioned by Business Superbrands UK Ltd and canvassed the views of more than 1500 business professionals. Within the list of top 500 brands, TNT is ranked 118, 22 places ahead of Royal Mail, its leading competitor in the UK postal market.

The announcement comes as TNT Post, celebrates its fourth anniversary of becoming a downsteam access provider in the UK mail market. Since signing the agreement in April 2004, TNT Post has made great strides in its mailing proposition for UK businesses. In the last 12 months, TNT Post’s downstream access business has experienced more than a 60 per cent growth in its mailing volumes and the company now delivers an average of 160 million items a month. With its broad range of services, TNT Post enables both businesses large and small to benefit from the high quality and innovative services that competition has brought to the postal market.

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Deutsche Post: ver.di rejects very good offer

Posted by | Apr 19, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post made ver.di a very attractive offer, according to which dismissals protection would be extended to June 30, 2011 and contractual employees’ wages would be increased by around 5.5 percent over the next two years.

In return, employees’ working hours would be moderately increased. That means that employees would work an extra half hour each week, or six minutes more each day. Civil servants will work 40 hours a week instead of 41 in the future, that’s one hour less than is usual for German federal civil servants and has been in force at Deutsche Post since April 1st ver.di rejected this offer.

Walter Scheurle, Board Member, Personnel, commented: “Whoever rejects 39 months of dismissals protection and a reasonable salary increase in exchange for a working-hours increase of six minutes per day, definitely does not represent the interest of our employees.”

Deutsche Post emphasized its readiness to continue with the employment pact and thus its commitment to job security as well as to a salary increase that is attractive to employees, but at the same time economically viable. This precludes that the social partner is prepared to discuss an increase in working hours.

According to the assessment of Deutsche Post, job security assurance and the proposed salary increase correspond to the paramount interests of employees. The stubborn attitude of ver.di in regard to the working hours issue is obviously based more on dogmatism and in strategic and image goals than anything else.

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USPS launches rate increases and incentives

Posted by | Apr 18, 2008 | |

Under a new strategy intended to make it more competitive with other shipping companies, the U.S. Postal Service is rolling out a new rate schedule effective May 12 with a combination of higher rates and incentives for lowering costs.
Taking advantage of a law passed by Congress in 2006 that gives the U.S.P.S. increased flexibility to set prices, the Postal Service will offer zone-based pricing with lower rates for those who ship in volume or help the Postal Service cut costs by dropping off packages at bulk mail centers.
Shipping rates for Priority Mail and Parcel Select, two U.S.P.S. services commonly used by online retailers to ship parcels weighing up to 70 pounds, will rise on average 6 pct and 5.7 pct, respectively. But Priority Mail, used to deliver products typically within two to three days, will offer lower rates to shippers who use services such as the Postal Services’ online Click-and-Ship pick-up scheduling service and PC Postage online postage services from third-party vendors like Endicia and Pitney Bowes, the spokesman says.
For Parcel Select, which allows shippers to bring products to either a local post office or a bulk mail center, customers will be able to get reduced rates based on volume and also for bringing packages directly to a post office, or direct delivery unit, instead of a bulk mail center.
For package returns, the U.S.P.S. is raising the average overall rate by 2.2%. But it will offer discounts for packages returned to a direct delivery unit instead of a bulk mail center, the spokesman says.

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