Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Business & Investment: DHL launches Import Express website

Posted by | Aug 29, 2007 | |

DHL has recently launched Import Express On-line, a website that automates and supports the importation of products, a company source said on August 15

The web-based service is part of DHL Express’s continuing efforts to enhance the features of Import Express, one of its fastest-growing productions in Vietnam

Product users will have the simplicity and control of one point of contact, one fixed price, and one invoice in local currency for all their door-to-door import requirements, originating from over 210 countries

With annual revenues of nearly EUR 24.5 billion in 2004, DHL, 100 pct owned by Deutsche Post World Net, offers innovative and customized solutions from a single source

DHL’s international network links more than 220 countries and territories worldwide thanks to its customer network of 4.2 million. Over 170,000 employees are dedicated to providing fast and reliable services that exceed customers’ expectations in 120,000 destinations in all continents.

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UPS and iShip Celebrating Anniversaries

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

UPS and its subsidiary iShip, two companies founded in the Seattle area, both are celebrating major anniversaries this year. UPS turns 100 today and iShip now is 10 years old.

iShip developed and supports Web-based technology used to process small package shipments at outlets of The UPS Store, Mail Boxes Etc., UPS Customer Centers and corporate customers nationwide.

Acquired by UPS in 2001, iShip “offers a reliable and scalable solution that can handle a great deal of shipping volume, especially during the peak shipping periods,” said Dave Barnes, UPS’s chief information officer. “It also provides customers complete visibility and greater control over shipping expenditures.”

iShip, Inc., provides Web-based shipping and manifesting solutions to more than 5,000 retail shipping centers and thousands of enterprise users nationwide. iShip’s customers use the software to ship tens of millions of packages annually. iShip’s suite of products is highly configurable and can be deployed as either single carrier or multi-carrier solutions, depending on the customer’s needs.

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DHL chosen by leading regional department store chain

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

DHL announced it has been selected as the exclusive small package delivery provider for the Bon-Ton Stores, Inc., one of the largest regional department store chains in the United States. DHL will provide US domestic Express and home delivery services, supporting The Bon-Ton store’s entire network.

The Bon-Ton operates 278 stores in 23 states in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains under the Bon-Ton, Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson Pirie Scott, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s, Younkers and, under the Parisian nameplate two stores in the Detroit, Mich. area. In addition to a bridal registry and new on-line store, The Bon Ton offers a broad assortment of brand-name fashion apparel and accessories for women, men and children, as well as cosmetics and home furnishings.

DHL worked with Bon-Ton to offer store customers the added convenience of delivery of in-store items purchased at any Bon-Ton store. DHL will deliver these items upon request by customers to a business or residence through its Express delivery or DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service.

From Bon-Ton fulfillment centers, DHL will deliver all products ordered through the online store, as well as items ordered from the Bon-Ton Bridal Registry.

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FedEx adds new flights between Memphis (US) and Manchester (UK)

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

FedEx Express, the cargo airline of FedEx Corp., is launching new direct flights between its headquarters in Memphis and Manchester, England.

An MD-11 flight originating at the shipping giant’s hub in Paris will stop in Manchester each day Monday to Thursday before flying to Tennessee.

The flights will increase the company’s daily capacity between the U.S. and U.K. by up to 50 percent and between Europe and the U.S. by 20 percent, FedEx announced Tuesday.

“Manchester is the fastest-growing region in the U.K., which has led to increased market demand for reliable, time-definite express transportation services,” said Robert W. Elliott, president, FedEx Express, Europe, Middle East, Indian subcontinent and Africa.

The airline already operates two express freighters from Stansted in southeastern England to Newark, New Jersey, and Memphis. The new flight is expected to increase next-day service and allow later pickup times for northern Britain.

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UPS Celebrates it's 100-Year Anniversary

Posted by | Aug 28, 2007 | |

UPS Inc. celebrates it’s 100-year anniversary later this month, it now is the world’s largest shipping carrier – a USD 47 billion business with a fleet of trucks, an airline and operations in 200 countries.

Increasing competition for delivery of goods has meant the company has had to broaden its global reach and expand its business beyond small package delivery to shipping heavy freight and providing logistics services for companies.

But even as the Internet has made it easier to send, receive or download items electronically instead of paying a service to deliver them, the breaking down of trade barriers has given shippers like UPS overseas opportunities they haven’t had in the past.
the global economy.

These days, the U.S. small package delivery market has slowed along with the economy. As a result, UPS has been increasingly looking beyond U.S. borders for business, offering faster delivery to worldwide destinations. International growth has helped the company’s bottom line.

Last month, UPS reported a 4.1 percent rise in second-quarter earnings on a modest increase in sales. The company’s shares, on an adjusted basis, are up more than 14 percent over the last year.

A century from now, Chief Executive Mike Eskew expects that delivering small packages will still be an important part of the Atlanta-based company’s business, but he isn’t sure it will be the largest part. In 2001, the company expanded its services by acquiring the Mail Boxes Etc. chain. Most of the stores were later renamed The UPS Store.

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