Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

FedEx Express gateway for central & eastern Europe moves to Cologne

Posted by | Aug 7, 2007 | |

FedEx Express will relocate its largest German gateway from Frankfurt/Main to the Cologne/Bonn airport in 2010. FedEx and the operator of the airport, Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH, signed a cooperation agreement. New ramp and sort facilities will be built on a total floor space of approximately 50,000 square meters. The reason for this decision is the rapidly-growing demand for express services in Germany and Eastern Europe and its alignment with the strategic objectives of the company.

“In order to be able to provide the highest possible quality in all our services to our customers worldwide, we need to expand our hub capacities,” said Michael Mühlberger, vice president, Operations, FedEx Express Central & Eastern Europe. “Due to a potential ban on night flights, the Frankfurt/Main location cannot provide FedEx with long-term planning reliability.”

However, the Rhine/Main region will continue to play an important role for FedEx’s intercontinental and Europe services. Therefore, a part of the workforce will continue to work in Frankfurt in the future. In addition, new jobs will be created in the Cologne/Bonn region.

Cologne airport holds a number of benefits for FedEx, including great air traffic capacities. With a volume of 698,000 tons, it is the second-largest cargo airport in Germany and has longstanding experience in collaborating with air cargo and express service providers. Due to its proximity to highways, railway transportation and the river Rhine, the airport provides an ideal infrastructure for cargo traffic.

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GLS establishes start-up in Romania

Posted by | Aug 7, 2007 | |

GLS Romania went into operation on August 1st. Headquartered in Sibiu, the new subsidiary will be headed by Gabor Szemkeo, Managing Director GLS Europe East. The investment volume amounts to five million euros.

GLS will offer a national regular delivery time of 24 hours in Rumania: full-area distribution will be achieved by the hub in Sibiu as well as ten depots in Sibiu, Brasov, Pitesti, Bucuresti (Bucharest), Targu Mures, Cluj Napoca, Baia Mare, Oradea, Timisoara and Deva.

The start-up company is linked to GLS’ European network via regular line haul transports to the Austrian hub in Ansfelden and the Hungarian hub in Budapest. “From our European transhipment centre in Neuenstein, Germany, the hub for our international line haul transports, we are able to realize a regular delivery time of 72 hours for Rumanian import parcels”, explains Rico Back, CEO at GLS B.V., Amsterdam.

Following the growth markets

GLS already has experience in establishing start-up companies in growth markets: already a year before its entry into the EU, GLS Hungary was a hundred per cent subsidiary of the GLS Group. In May 2004, GLS Slovakia was launched; in April 2005, GLS Czech Republic began its operations. “We want to be present for our customers in eastern European EU markets to meet the increase in demand”, says Back. “Establishing our own companies has proven to be a successful strategy. We are able to achieve GLS’ high quality objectives in the first few weeks of operations and the break even point usually already in the second year.”

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Correos to modernise international postal centre in Barajas airport

Posted by | Aug 6, 2007 | |

Correos will install an automatic sorting system for their international parcel centre in Baraja airport. The acquisition of this equipment will speed the management of the delivery and will improve the registration of the track information. The new equipment will also offer more value added services and bettering quality control to the clients of international delivery. The total investment is EUR 1.2 million.

The winner of the public tender was Vanderlande Industries Espana S.A. The company will acquire the machines and infrastructure on behalf of Correos de Espana and re-launch the Barajas international post centre in 6 months time. The company will be responsible for maintenance of the sort service for next
5 years. Four other companies sent economic proposals for the Correos public tender.

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Kintetsu Express considers shipping tie with Nippon Express

Posted by | Aug 6, 2007 | |

Nippon Express Co. and Kintetsu World Express Inc. said Tuesday they are studying joint air transport services from Japan to other Asian countries to take advantage of growing demand for shipping services within Asia.

The two Japanese firms are in talks to develop a small package shipping service that would deliver items such as samples and documents.

Japanese transport companies have lagged behind their U.S. and European competitors such as DHL and FedEx Corp.

Kintetsu World, for instance, provides shipping services to other Asian countries from Japan but focuses mostly on large shipping contracts such as delivering electronic parts, a Kintetsu World spokeswoman said.

Growth in demand for commercial shipping within Asia has been growing at 7 pct to 8 pct a year, Nippon Express and Kintetsu said in a joint press release.

The Nikkei reported that the two firms and Japan Airlines Corp. are expected to form a tie-up in international package shipments from Japan to other parts of Asia.

But the Kintetsu World spokeswoman denied the report, saying that the two transport firms haven’t decided which airline they may want to use for their potential new service. JAL wasn’t immediately available to comment on whether the airline is involved in talks with the two transport firms.

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Freightways achieves record results

Posted by | Aug 6, 2007 | |

New Zealand express and freight transport group Freightways said it achieved record revenues and earnings for the year ending June 30, 2007, despite a challenging marketplace.

The company reported that consolidated operating revenue for the year rose to NZ$283 million (EUR 156 million), up 10% on the prior corresponding period, with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of NZ$62.9 million (EUR 34.67 million), 8% ahead of the previous year.

Cash generated from operations for the year before interest and tax also reached a record NZ$62.3 million (EUR 34.34 million), while consolidated net profit after tax and before amortisation (NPATA) of NZ$30.9 million (EUR 17.03 million), was 6% higher than the prior corresponding period.

Managing Director Dean Bracewell said: “It was an eventful 12 months for Freightways in which it has performed soundly in New Zealand, established a firm presence in Australia and delivered another record result.”

The core express package brands of New Zealand Couriers, Post Haste Couriers, Castle Parcels, SUB60, Security Express and Kiwi Express again contributed the majority of the group’s revenue and earnings. The internal linehaul providers, Fieldair Holdings and Parceline Express continued to provide a seamless and efficient air and road linehaul service, respectively, the company noted.

The express businesses continued to invest in areas that further enhance their competitive advantages and where additional capacity will be required to accommodate future growth, Freightways said. This included the relocation of all Freightways businesses operating in Hamilton into a purpose-built facility to service the growing Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions.

DX Mail, a nationwide business mail competitor to NZ Post, continued its growth, accelerated by the acquisition of the franchisor rights of the Pete’s Post mail delivery business in December 2006.

Looking forward, Bracewell said that Freightways’ performance in the short term “will continue to be influenced by the challenging New Zealand marketplace. Medium to longer term and subject to factors beyond our control, Freightways is exceptionally well positioned in all aspects of its business to continue to achieve positive outcomes for shareholders and other stakeholders.”

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