Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

FedEx to take on 200 more staff in France

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

FedEx Express has announced plans to take on 200 more employees in France during 2008, split between its European hub at Roissy-CDG and its 14 branches in Paris and the regions. This would be an 8 pct increase in staff numbers.

FedEx Express, which opened its European hub at CDG in 1999, currently employs 2,500 people in France. A similar number of additional employees could be taken on annually over the next few years as the company grows its business.

“The express market is very dynamic and our recruitment needs reflect this development,” said Aurélie Morin, head of human resources. Most of the 200 additional jobs planned for this year will be in the positions of handlers, couriers and operational managers.

FedEx will concentrate on taking on locally-based staff who live close to its hub and branches. The company offers good career opportunities, with 80% of managers having advanced up through the ranks, Morin pointed out.

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DPWN chief Klaus Zumwinkel under tax evasion investigation

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

The home and office of Deutsche Post chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel were today raided by German officials investigating alleged tax evasion of some EUR 1 million. He was also taken for questioning but later released.

Tax authorities arrived at his home in Cologne at 7 a.m. and spent five hours there before taking him for questioning. Officials also searched his office at the DPWN headquarters.

A spokesman for the Bochum public prosecutor’s office said that Zumwinkel and other unnamed persons were under suspicion of tax evasion. The investigation focused on financial investments made by Zumwinkel in Liechtenstein, he said. The sum in question amounted to about EUR 1 million. An arrest warrant was not exercised since Zumwinkel had paid a bail sum of “not insignificant size”.

Deutsche Post said in a brief statement that Zumwinkel had responded in detail to the authorities regarding the allegations against him and had returned home. The entire management board, including the CEO, was “fully functional” and continuing its business as usual, it added.

Zumwinkel, 64, has been chairman and CEO of Deutsche Post since 1990, and has led its transformation from a domestic mail business into the world’s largest logistics group. His current contract is due to expire in November, and there has been media speculation that he will retire from the post at the end of the year. He is expected to take over the position of Deutsche Post supervisory board chairman.

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City Link invest in one of UK’s biggest ever trailer orders

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

City Link has completed one of the UK’s largest ever trailer orders in a GBP 23 million investment programme.

The order for 140 trailers and box trailers has been placed with trailer manufacturer Gray and Adams, supplied through Fraikin and Ryder under contract hire agreements.
The 13.6m trailers have an interior height of 2.06m on the upper deck and 1.9m on the lower deck: 2m-deep powered loading ramps form the lower rear closure with double rear doors forming the upper closure.

An interior two-tonne tail-life is housed within the rear doors.

The deal includes servicing and maintenance as well as tyres and breakdown support. City Link has also recently ordered 45 new Renault and DAF trucks through Fraikin and will repeat the same order in 2008.

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US regional operator Velocity Express seeks international partners

Posted by | Feb 13, 2008 | |

Velocity Express plans to expand its international business and is looking for partnerships with logistics suppliers. The company meanwhile reduced its losses in the fourth quarter but its revenues also dropped due to customer losses.

The company said it is stepping up its focus on its Global Alliance initiative to capture the significant long-term opportunity in the worldwide marketplace.

Wasik, Velocity’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer said the company has signed up Shanghai-based ALC Advisors to assist on the Asian component of the alliance. “We are also in discussions with potential partners in other regions of the globe and other industry segments,” he added.

Velocity Express also announced operating results for the second quarter and six month period. Revenue for the quarter ended December 29, 2007 fell to USD 86.1 million from USD 102.3 million in the same period one year earlier. This was due to the loss of two significant contracts with a financial institution and Office Depot, the end of unfavourable contracts inherited from the merger with CD&L, and the generally slow economic environment, which combined more than outweighed new customer acquisitions.

However, the company succeeded in reducing its Q4 operating loss to USD 3.9 million from USD 8.7 million one year earlier. The net loss was USD 8.9 million compared to USD 13.4 million one year earlier.

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FedEx jumps aboard France's TGV

Posted by | Feb 13, 2008 | |

A consortium plans to offer express parcel service to points in Western Europe using high-speed trains. German tracks may derail idea of overnight service
One side-effect of the world of modern logistics is that Germany’s national postal service can hardly afford to use trains to move packages these days. Overnight delivery is considered the standard in express shipping. But freight trains are hardly able fit the bill when it comes to guaranteed next-day delivery.
That situation, though, is expected to change soon in France, where 20 high-speed TGV trains — which operate at speeds of 300 kilometers per hour (186 miles per hour) and will be equipped with nine unfurnished cars designed to carry standardized airfreight containers — are slated to being operations in four years. The Carex project (an acronym for “Cargo Rail Express”) has strong political support in France.
In the meantime, though, funding has been secured for the project, with La Poste and FedEx, which uses Paris’s Roissy Airport (formerly “Charles de Gaulle”) as its European logistics hub, on board as the lead investors.
More than 50 FedEx cargo planes take off and land at Roissy every night, connecting Paris with faraway continents, as well as domestic airports like Nice, Toulouse, Lyon and
Given these obstacles, German national railway Deutsche Bahn has shown little enthusiasm for the project. Courier freight is a minor player in the industry. The core business consists of heavy cargo, such as raw materials and industrial products, and it is highly successful. Annual freight transport volume, which has been growing for years, now amounts to significantly more than 100 billion ton-kilometers.

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