Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Fedex quits Frankfurt

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

U.S. integrator FedEx will cease their Frankfurt flight operations and move traffic to Cologne/Bonn airport instead.
The move will be taken in spring 2010 and include 60 weekly flights.

Reason for doing so is the night flight ban Frankfurt’s airport company Fraport AG wants to impose by 2011 when runway number four will be ready and go into service.

Closing of Rhein/Main from midnight till 5:00 am is strongly backed by the local Hesse politicians.

Governor Herr Koch promised the public to shut down continental Europe’s busiest airport during night times as compromise for building an additional runway that will trigger more traffic and thus assault the vicinity of Rhein/Main.

Now FedEx however pulled the emergency brake by quitting Frankfurt and moving to Cologne.

Fedex announced the building of a new sorting center for 140 million euros that will open up its gates by 2010 and be exclusively utilized by FedEx.

While Cologne/Bonn airport invests 70 million euros the U.S. package giant promised to pay the other half for equipping the facility with a state-of-the-art sorting systems. Garvens further pointed out that he intends to renew the license for night flights beyond 2015 when the current allowance for as many as 36 nightly operations expires.

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Osan implements new postal tracking

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

A new tracking system — the first at an Air Force base in the Pacific — is helping postal workers at Osan automate registered mail and package deliveries.

The system, called UPS Trackpad, is a United Parcel Service system that uses bar codes and computer scans to track certain mail inside the post office, said Senior Airman Bradley Williams, who implemented the system at Osan.

The Trackpad program replaces hand-written cards that once traced a package, registered or insured mail from delivery at the back of the post office to the customer, said Williams, 21, of Modesto, Calif.

The automated system adds an extra label to the package as it enters to the post office, Williams said. That label contains an identification code that matches information on the yellow card that customer’s find in their boxes to notify them that they have a piece of mail waiting.

Last Wednesday, the Osan post office got 75 pieces of mail. In post office lingo, a piece can mean an individual box or a bag full or letters and magazines. On a typical Monday, the post office gets about 350 pieces, Williams said.

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Fidelity acquires 7 pct in Transport Corporation of India for Rs 530 million

Posted by | Aug 13, 2007 | |

Fidelity Investments International has picked up a 7 pct stake in Transport Corporation of India (TCI), the Delhi-based express logistics company, for Rs 53o million. TCI will issue equity shares of Rs 2 face value to Fidelity Investments at Rs 105.25 per share, in accordance with Sebi guidelines for preferential issue.

Post-issue, Fidelity’s stake in TCI would increase to nearly 10 pct of the paid up equity. TCI’s executive director Vineet Agarwal said: “The amount raised will be utilized to fund the expansion of TCI, specifically for building capacity in the warehousing space and setting up information technology (IT) systems.” Earlier, in 2006, TCI had announced expansion plans requiring Rs 4500 million of investments in warehousing, fleet upgradation and expansion, shipping and IT systems.

TCI intends to raise another Rs 600-700 million through sale of equity in the following year. “Our plan was to raise almost Rs 1200 million in two stages through equity dilution. The first stage has been completed. We will raise another Rs 700 million within six to nine months,” said Mr Agarwal.

1 GBP = 81.4266 INR

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UPS names two new District Executives

Posted by | Aug 13, 2007 | |

Todd Galloway, a 22-year veteran of UPS has been named the vice president of operations for the company’s Laurel Mountain District. In his new role, Galloway will be responsible for more than 5,245 employees, 31 facilities and 62 million deliveries in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and western Maryland.

Galloway most recently managed UPS operations in the Great Basin District, which includes all of Idaho, Utah and Nevada.

Jeff Fite, a 22-year veteran of UPS has been promoted to director of sales for the Prairie Mountain District. In his new role, Fite will direct all sales and marketing activities in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Fite, who will be based in Omaha, most recently served as director of sales training at UPS’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta. He began his UPS career in 1985 working as a part-time loader before becoming a full-time package car driver in Tennessee near Nashville. He then moved through a series of jobs with increasing responsibility in sales and marketing.

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DHL’s drive towards clean-fuel vehicles hits a block

Posted by | Aug 13, 2007 | |

Early this year, DHL announced that it would add natural gas (NG)-powered vans to its UAE express delivery fleet, in the hope that this would lead the country’s efforts at promoting alternative fuel vehicles.

“With more roads and bridges being introduced into the country’s transportation network, we believe that the government must and will take steps to increase the supply of alternative fuels”, said Geoff Walsh, operations manger – UAE, DHL.

DHL is hoping to switch 50 per cent of its vehicles to natural gas by 2010. The two vehicles it currently has were converted from regular petrol-fueled vans into NG ones by Al Naboodah Automobiles.

Petrol and diesel-powered vehicles account for 80 per cent of all the environmental pollution in the UAE, a recent study by the Roads and Transport Authority said. As the emirate steps up its drive to promote environment-friendly practices, experts estimate that natural gas will account for 20 per cent of all fuel consumed by road vehicles by 2012.
Walsh said that despite the lack of filling stations, DHL was doing other things to improve its environment credentials. “These include using smaller-sized engines for our vehicles; optimising delivery routes and operating freight consolidation centers which reduce both the number of vehicles and trips needed to deliver packages,” pointed out Walsh.

“In fact, with all these efforts, between 2004 and 2007, DHL reduced fuel consumption by 19 per cent globally,” he added.

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