Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

La Poste targets parcels and services growth in new five-year plan

Posted by | Mar 18, 2008 | |

France’s La Poste aims to grow its international express and parcels business, build up new mailstream flows and offer new services under a five-year strategic plan unveiled yesterday, French media reported. The group is also apparently interested in troubled German mail operator PIN Group.

As part of the 2008-2012 plan “Performance and Confidence”, La Poste aims to increase its turnover by 2% a year on average and reach revenues of EUR 23.2 billion by 2012, reported Les Echos. It is targeting an operating profit of about EUR 2 billion and a profit margin of 8.5% in 2012.

Growth would be driven by the parcels and express business, which expects average annual growth of more than 5%, and by La Banque Postale. But most investment will go into the mail business which is mid-way through a major modernisation programme, the newspaper wrote.

La Tribune cited La Poste president Jean-Paul Bailly as saying that La Poste was increasingly “a service group” in which each division should focus on what it can do best. He was not questioning the postal group’s public service obligations, including the universal mail service and the loss-making newspaper distribution, but wanted their financing transparent and clarified, the newspaper said.

The AFP news agency cited Bailly as saying that the parcels and express market would be “much more of a driver in terms of development and growth”. Marc-André Feffer, strategy director, pointed out that e-commerce would generate parcels growth.

Paul-Marie Chavanne, head of parcels and express unit GeoPost, said the group, which was number two in Europe, wanted to become a “global player”, AFP reported. La Poste had last year sealed an important alliance with Air France-KLM to transport parcels in the airline’s fleet, he noted. In future, La Poste would invest in “domestic networks outside Europe”, and had recently acquired companies in Russia, South Africa, the USA and set up businesses in China and the Middle East. India and South America were also on the map.

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DHL wins GBP 9 million contract with UK's leading single-price retailer

Posted by | Mar 18, 2008 | |

DHL Exel Supply Chain today announced that it has won a new three year contract worth GBP 9 million (11.8 million euro), with Poundland, the UK’s largest retailer of GBP 1 products. DHL will be importing consumer products from China and transporting them to stores across the UK, utilizing the expertise from its extensive global network.

DHL will transport a variety of products for Poundland from UK outbases in Billingham, Hatfield and Belshill and will provide deconsolidation center services at ports in Felixstowe and Southampton. The inward freight from China will be managed by DHL’s specialist International Supply Chain team, which provides end-to-end supply chain management expertise.

DHL’s solution will significantly reduce transport costs by the introduction of double-deck trailers and by revising store delivery schedules. DHL’s ability to provide transport outbases and deconsolidation centers in key areas played an important part in securing this contract.

Poundland has 167 stores throughout the UK, each receiving up to five deliveries a week. DHL’s deconsolidation centers will be handling between 3,000 and 4,000 containers each year, transporting a range of products for Poundland covering: food and drink; health, baby and beauty; household; homewares; toys; DIY and petcare products.

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Outgoing UPS Chief got 7.8% raise in 2007 to USD 4.5 Million

Posted by | Mar 17, 2008 | |

The former Chairman and Chief Executive of UPS Inc., Mike Eskew, received total compensation valued at USD 4.5 million in 2007, a 7.8 percent increase from the year before, according to a regulatory filing Monday by the world’s largest shipping carrier.

According to an analysis of the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Eskew was granted a salary of USD 1,026,000, a bonus of USD 43,000 and a performance-based bonus of USD 197,800.

He received all other compensation of USD 43,019, including USD 2,000 for a charitable contribution match, USD 6,750 for 401(k) matching contributions, USD 5,036 for life insurance premiums, USD 17,583 for pension benefits restoration plan rollover and USD 11,650 for financial planning services.

Eskew also received stock and option awards the company valued at USD 3,142,645 on the days they were granted.

He did not receive above-market or preferential earnings on deferred compensation.

The total compensation of USD 4,452,464 compares with the USD 4,130,657 he was granted in 2006.

The Associated Press’s total pay calculations include executives’ salary, bonus, incentives, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.

The calculations don’t include changes in the present value of pension benefits, and they sometimes differ from the totals companies list in the summary compensation table of proxy statements filed with the SEC.

Atlanta-based UPS’s annual meeting will be held May 8 in Wilmington, Del. The company, also known as United Parcel Service, announced in October that Eskew would retire at the end of 2007 after six years as CEO and more than three decades with the company. He has been replaced by Scott Davis, who was the company’s chief financial officer before taking the top post.

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Blue Dart to replace Boeing 737 with 757

Posted by | Mar 17, 2008 | |

Move will help the company increase its carrying capacity without increasing fleet size.

The Chennai-based air cargo company, Blue Dart Aviation, has decided to replace all its four ageing Boeing 737 cargo aircrafts with the Boeing 757. The move is primarily aimed at augmenting carrying capacity without increasing the current fleet size of seven.

Last year, the company inducted a 757 freight carrier, which was its seventh from DHL Expresses’ European Air Transport. DHL Express holds 81 per cent stake in Blue Dart.

Tushar Jani, chairman, Blue Dart Aviation, said, “We cannot increase our fleet size because of lack of parking space at airports and hence will replace the Boeing 737 with Boeing 757.”

The company intends to have a mix of leased and owned 757-200 SF (special freighters). At present, the cost of a Boeing 757-200 SF (special freighters) is about USD 80-85 million.
The replacement of aircrafts will help the company increase its carrying capacity by 32 per cent from 148 tonnes to 196 tonnes by the end of 2011.
The replacement initiative comes at a time when the company is optimistic about starting scheduled overseas operations, perhaps this year.

Company executives said the move would help improving aircraft utilisation due to increased flying hours. The company currently is evaluating commercial viability of flying to overseas destinations.

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Mobile working solutions sought by Royal Mail

Posted by | Mar 17, 2008 | |

Its intention is to establish contracts with providers in the areas of service management, mobile application, systems integration and in-life management support. The deal will provide up to 130,000 hand held devices and is thought to be the largest of its kind in the UK and possibly the world.

Having put out a tender, Royal Mail is aiming to enter negotiations with up to five service providers. The hand held device management will be the subject of a separate contract to oversee hardware operation and updates.

Included within the tender is a service management requirement. This is intended to handle various aspects such as incident, problem, release, security and change management.

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