Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Express Delivery under Pressure to Add More Value as Parcel Service Closes the Gap

Posted by | Oct 31, 2007 | |

Europe’s parcel and express delivery business is expected to continue to grow at a higher rate than in previous years due to an increase in business-to-consumer (B2C) traffic and strong international demand, according to new research by market analyst Datamonitor.

However, the research, “European Express Market Map 2008,” which covers 12 major European markets, says that although currently exhibiting a higher growth rate than parcel services, express services are going to have to demonstrate extra value as customer demand is shifting to using cheaper yet reliable parcel services in key growth areas of international and business-to-consumer (B2C) delivery services.

“Over the next five years, the B2C and C2C (consumer-to-consumer) sectors will experience faster growth than B2B (business-to-business), due to increased e-commerce activity, especially in less mature home delivery markets such as Italy and Spain,” said Erik van Baaren, Datamonitor express analyst and author of the study.

International services are also growing at a higher rate primarily due to the enlargement of the European Union and the trend to centralize operations to fewer countries and outsource manufacturing to low-cost countries, according to van Baaren.

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Minister for Transport inaugurates DHL's state-of-the-art hub

Posted by | Oct 31, 2007 | |

DHL Express officially opened its new purpose-built hub today near Dublin Airport. Minister for Transport, Mr. Noel Dempsey T.D., officiated at the opening of the premises in Dublin Airport Logistics Park. The new hub is central to DHL’s strategic development plan for its business in Ireland. The facility will be the focal point for all DHL’s international air express, road express and domestic delivery services.

The purpose-built hub, which is located on a 13 acre site, utilises the latest state-of-the-art technology including a highly sophisticated automated sortation system which contains over 700 meters of conveyors and is capable of handling up to 7,000 parcels per hour. The system automatically routes national and international shipments to one of 118 pick-up and delivery doors, 24 cross-dock doors and 30 line-haul doors for distribution via the DHL national and international networks. Shipments for delivery to more than 220 countries serviced by DHL are consolidated on airline containers to connect with DHL’s A300 airbus cargo aircraft nightly service from Dublin airport.

Bernard McCarthy, Director & General Manager of DHL Express in Ireland, said at today’s official opening, “The completion of the new hub is a significant milestone for DHL Express in Ireland and reinforces our commitment to invest in our infrastructure and to further improve the services we offer to Irish businesses. The new facility is the centrepiece of our operational network in Ireland and will ensure that we are well positioned to meet the growing needs of our customers throughout the country.”

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UPS board ok's USD 2 billion stock buyback

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

United Parcel Service Inc., the world’s largest shipping carrier, said Tuesday in a regulatory filing its board authorized the company to buy back up to $2 billion in stock.
The authorization replaces the about USD 50 million that remains available under the February share repurchase authorization of USD 2 billion, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

UPSsaid it will purchase stock from time to time on the open market or in private transactions. The program has no time limit.

The Atlanta company has about 1.06 billion shares outstanding.

Shares of UPS have traded between USD 68.66 and USD 79.72 over the past 52 weeks and closed down 35 cents at USD 74.75.

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Intec signs pan-European data mediation deal with DHL

Posted by | Oct 30, 2007 | |

Intec, a global provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), has successfully completed the first phase of a pan-European convergent data mediation project at DHL, an express and logistics company.

As part of a long term agreement signed this year with DHL s parent holding company, Deutsche Post World Net, Intec has entered the non-telecom data mediation market in Europe by delivering an integrated solution to DHL.

The project combines the Intec Mediation platform with Intec CEMS (Centralised Error Management System), providing the courier company with a unified platform that can gather, process and distribute its shipping records in real-time, while also checking and identifying information errors that could potentially lead to revenue losses.

Intec informed that the first phase of the project has successfully concluded with DHL s operations in Belgium going live with the platform in August 2007.

DHL plans to roll out Intec s combined mediation and error management system across twenty-four other European countries by the end of the year. The server hosting the mediation platform is based at DHL s IT centre in the Czech Republic.

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Aramex delivers Oman Post Express Shipments

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

Aramex, announced that it has partnered with Oman Post to handle express deliveries on its behalf to the MENA region, Indian Sub-Continent and Europe.

As per the agreement, Aramex will serve as key logistics provider for the handling of express deliveries on behalf of Oman Post.

Aramex offers an innovative solution that stretches across the GCC, MENA and South Asian regions. The benefits of the relationship for Oman Post is that Aramex has the capability, resources and flexibility to reach markets earlier untouched by the government shipment arm that are key to placing Oman Post on the map of influential postal service providers.

Aramex has started delivering on behalf of the Omani government through this partnership which comes as a demonstration of Aramex ‘s commitment to the Omani and wider GCC communities.

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