Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL appoints Troy Shortell as Head of Global Customer Solutions for Asia Pacific

Posted by | Apr 11, 2008 | |

DHL announced the appointment of Troy Shortell as Senior Vice President, DHL Global Customer Solutions (GCS) for the Asia Pacific region, with immediate effect. GCS is the industry-first customer management unit that was established in 2004 to manage DHL’s top global customers.

Based in Singapore, Mr. Shortell reports to GCS’ Chief Executive Officer, Rolf Habben Jansen. He succeeds Florence Noblot, who has since moved to France as Managing Director of DHL Express International. In this role, he will lead and drive the strategic growth of the GCS business unit in the Asia Pacific region, which coordinates all of DHL’s express, air, freight, and ocean services.

Mr. Shortell joined DHL in 1993, and previously held the position of Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy for DHL Global Forwarding in Asia Pacific. In his previous role, he initiated regional strategic programs to drive organic growth. He also played a key role in the integration of the former DHL Danzas Air & Ocean and Exel Multi-national sales teams in Asia Pacific.

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GLS Belgian subsidiary ABX re-brands

Posted by | Apr 11, 2008 | |

ABX Belgium Distribution, acquired by GLS in December 2006, has re-branded to GLS Belgium Distribution as part of its integration into the European parcels group and ongoing modernisation.

Since acquiring the parcel and general cargo business ABX Belgium Distribution, GLS has started a five-year investment of EUR 16 million in modernising the company, including new firewall installations, scanners and security and surveillance technology. Two separate parcel sorting and freight handling systems are being installed at the subsidiary’s depots. Four of its nine depots work with the new systems, and the others should be completed by spring 2009.

“The modernisation measures will strengthen the company and increase quality,” Fritze explained. “In the Benelux countries GLS offers cross-border delivery of freight shipments in addition to its national and international logistics service – one address which is now also one brand.”

GLS reportedly spent about EUR 23 million to win a battle with other European CEP players to buy ABX Belgium Distribution from Belgian Railways in 2006 and thus become the largest B2B parcel company in Belgium. ABX Belgium Distribution generated revenues of approximately EUR 90 million in 2005, two-thirds of which came from the parcel business.

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La Poste launches new services and cuts paper usage

Posted by | Apr 11, 2008 | |

La Poste has signed several partnerships with the supermarket chain Casino, EBay France and WWF France in the last few weeks to expand its network, enhance services and reduce its environmental impact.
Coliposte, the French parcels division of La Poste, entered into a partnership with the supermarket chain Casino to test its automatic parcel pick-up service “Cityssimo” in two supermarkets in Lyon and Paris.
Through the introduction of the Cityssimo service into the Casino supermarkets, La Poste aims at extending its network of parcel pick-up points to offer its customers the possibility to choose their preferred type of delivery of Colissimo shipments. The customers can thus pick up their parcels in their Casino store at the time most convenient for them.
In addition, La Poste and eBay in France have signed an agreement to enable customers to buy and to prepay online their express shipments saving time and ensuring traceability. Chronopost signed a similar agreement with eBay a month ago.
Meanwhile, La Poste has teamed up with the environmental organization WWF in France to promote a responsible mail policy. It has pledged to reduce considerably its CO2 emissions by 15% and to recycle 80% of its paper by 2012 as part of its overall environmental activities.

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DHL UAE switches to eco-friendly courier bags

Posted by | Apr 11, 2008 | |

DHL Express announced that the company will replace its regular plastic bags with new environmentally-friendly bags.

The new bags are not only stronger but are also fully reusable and recyclable and can degrade in as little as two years, leaving behind just natural elements: water, carbon dioxide and biomass. Conventional plastic bags, on the other hand, can take up to one thousand years to degrade; increasing landfill volume and contributing to the hazardous build-up of methane in landfill sites.

The switch to biodegradable bags is part of DHL’s worldwide initiative to reduce its environmental footprint across the 220 countries in which it operates. The move comes at a time when the most recent industry research indicates that the Middle East region and the UAE in particular, has an urgent need to focus on environmental sustainability.

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PIN Group Secures Nationwide Logistics

Posted by | Apr 11, 2008 | |

PIN Group has announced that its subsidiaries PIN mail GmbH (Dusseldorf) and PIN Logistics GmbH (Hamburg and Erkrath) has been sold to Xanto, a postal logistics service provider in Germany. The announcement was made by the insolvency administrator of the PIN-Holding, Bruno M. Kübler. Xanto had been a general service provider for PIN Logistics Ltd and by taking over the PIN Logistics GmbH independently Xanto will now direct contractual partners of the regional PIN companies and will continue to serve as a type of a hub for PIN-mail from all over Germany. “The acquisition of the two companies is an important step towards the preservation of PIN’s network,” said Kübler. “The outsourcing of logistics to experienced partner Xanto can with the reduced number of regional companies continue throughout Germany post. That was also essential in view of a “grand solution”, i.e. the possible sale of large parts of the PIN – Group to an investor.” The Dusseldorf-based PIN mail GmbH will be called Xanto mail GmbH and PIN Logistics GmbH will be called Xanto Logistics GmbH. The purchase price was not disclosed.

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