Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Gulf Air ties up with DHL Express to introduce Global Incentive Agreement Program

Posted by | Sep 9, 2007 | |

Gulf Air, the airline with the largest network in the Middle East, has entered into a strategic global partnership with DHL Express, the global market leader of the international express and logistics industry.

The Global Incentive Agreement Program, introduced by Gulf Air, is designed to provide key global partners with incentives to boost its cargo traffic volumes on a yearly basis and facilitate its inclusion in the partner’s core carrier program. DHL Express, a long time supporter of the airline, is the first partner to be signed up to this incentive agreement.

The agreement provides partners to access permanent bookings (PBs), direct booking, regular interface with HDQ key account managers, specific service level commitments and service recovery plans including claims processing.

The agreement will be for a one year period and both companies look forward to a successful and enhanced relationship.

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Dutch TNT says up to 11,000 layoffs possible

Posted by | Sep 8, 2007 | |

TNT NV said on Saturday it may have to lay off up to 11,000 workers due to rising competition in its home market, where the company is set to lose its remaining monopoly from next year.

The company said in April it will seek to freeze wages and cut up to 7,000 jobs to help lower costs by 300 million euros (USD 413 million) by 2015, but now seems to feel harsher measures will be needed to remain competitive.

“We may have to go as far as 10,000 or 11,000 redundancies,” Chief Executive Peter Bakker told Reuters in an interview.

Competitive pressures are rising in Europe. The European Parliament voted in June to delay until 2011 a plan to open its 88 billion euro postal market to full competition, a move that unions say will lead to job losses and diminished service quality in rural areas.

“There is a choice to aggressively cut costs and lay off a large number of people,” said Bakker, who was in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum.

“Or ask existing employees to take a wage freeze over a number of years,” he said. “It’s a horrible choice to make.”

TNT is one of the Netherlands largest employers with about 59,000 staff

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Port centric logistics delivers retail supply chain advantages

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Panalpina has provided a port centric solution for its major home wares retail clients by outsourcing to TNT and Import Services

Panalpina’s clients previously managed their own supply chain once product arrived at the UK port of entry; however this was proving to be unnecessarily complex and costly. In consultation with its clients Panalpina has taken charge of the final stage of the journey and, with its partner’s expertise, is producing astonishing results.

Import Services and TNT provide two distinct services once Panalpina has moved product in sea containers, from origin to Southampton port.

TNT, the UK’s leading business to business express delivery service specialists, collects store ready consignments from the containers at its Southampton port based depot, before putting them into its national distribution network in readiness for next day delivery to high street retailers throughout the UK.

Import Services takes the residual bulk stock into its adjacent distribution centre where storage, order processing, high volume pick/pack and distribution of replenishment orders are effected.

Portcentric is the distribution to an end recipient straight from the port. A distribution model which is fast becoming the smart option as it offers impressive cost and time savings as well as attractive green credentials.

Portcentric distribution takes at least 10 percent of time out of the supply chain from the Far East and in Panalpina’s experience a significant percentage of cost. This saving plus a reduced carbon footprint, adds up to an exciting proposition which is starting to grab the attention of UK industry.

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Chronoexpress appoints new General Director

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Chronoexpress, the express courier and parcel subsidiary of Correos, has appointed Eduardo Herrera as new General Director.

The appointment marks “a new stage of consolidation” at the company, Correos said in a press release. Chronoexprés has 50 depots across Spain and a fleet of 2,000 delivery vehicles.

Herrera, an economics and business studies graduate joined Chronoexprés as finance director in 2005.

José Tola García, who helped Chronoexprés cuts its losses by 60 pct, becomes transport director of Correos mail division.

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Truckers ask court to delay hours ruling

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

U.S. trucking companies have asked a federal court to delay a requirement that would reduce by one hour the time truckers can drive continuously.

The American Trucking Association Thursday requested an 8-month stay from a mandate of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court had ordered the daily driving limit be cut to 10 hours for long-haul truckers.

The trade group says eliminating the rule effective Sept. 14 would be expensive and require the industry to retrain drivers and operating personnel, reprint logs, reengineer routes and make other changes.

Safety advocates, who applauded the court’s ruling, say the industry is putting the public at risk by allowing truckers to drive too many hours.

The court action’s had followed by a week an ATA petition with the federal government, asking for revisions to 2-year-old regulations on truckers’ hours, which the court had rejected in late July.

The ATA argued for the 8-month stay to give the Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration time to review the court’s ruling and the new rules.

A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration spokeswoman did not return a call for comment Friday. After the ATA’s appeal last week, the agency said it was still developing a response to the court ruling but would do so in time for the industry to adapt.
The trade group’s members include United Parcel Service Inc., FedEx Corp., JB Hunt Transport Services Inc. and YRC Worldwide.

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