Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL launches Japan’s first 3PL-operated clinical trial logistics hub

Posted by | Jul 23, 2007 | |

DHL announced the launch of Tokyo-based Clinical Trial Logistics Hub following the successful implementation of its first customer, a leading global pharmaceutical company. DHL’s Clinical Trial Logistics Hub is located in Yashio, Shinagawa-ku and has been providing services since May 2007. This hub is the first of its kind in Japan to be operated by a Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider and specifically designed to meet the logistical needs of pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials in Japan.

In this logistics hub, DHL Exel Supply Chain offers pharmaceutical companies a clinical trial materials supply chain solution, including warehousing and transport, to streamline track and trace capabilities, enhance quality performance management, and improve operational processes strictly managed under the policies and procedures dictated by the pharmaceutical industry’s Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Good Distribution Practices (GDP) standards. The DHL-managed operations can handle clinical trial materials in two temperature zones (temperature: 2-8°C and 15-25°C) with strict controls for adherence to tolerances and automatic alarms and backup procedures and equipment. DHL also offers customized cold-chain packaging to maintain strict temperature tolerances during material dispatch to the investigator.

DHL aims to provide its pharmaceutical customers with improved visibility, control, and quality assurance of its clinical trial materials storage and shipping by leveraging DHL’s global pharmaceutical industry expertise, global distribution network, customs brokerage expertise, local logistics know-how, and information technology (IT) solutions.

DHL Exel Supply Chain is one of the business units in logistics in DPWN Group, operated under DHL Supply Chain Ltd. in Japan. The company currently meets a diverse range of logistics needs using leading-edge design, IT and project management methodologies. Its services enable reduction of cost, inventory and lead time and improvements in customer service through warehouse management, including Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and service logistics, as well as domestic distribution and transport, reverse logistics, packaging design, disposal, and recycling.

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DHL Czech Republic building a new network of terminals

Posted by | Jul 23, 2007 | |

DHL Express (Czech Republic) is building a new network of terminals throughout the country to meet the growing demand for freight and logistic services and to optimize its logistics system.

The completion of the CZK 1 billion (EUR 35.4 million) project creating a network of eight main terminals – by the end of 2009, is expected to save the company between 10 and 15 percent in costs, said Jiøí Stojar, the company’s managing director. In addition, because of improved interconnections, the company anticipates higher revenues and bigger market share. In the segment of packages, DHL Express expects to grow its current share from 25 percent to 30-32 percent; and in products above 31.5 kilograms from 8 to about 19 percent, and it hopes to at least maintain its 46 percent share in express air delivery services, Stojar said.

This year DHL Express CR (together with DHL Freight, which is part of the firm) revenues are expected to reach EUR 185 million, about 15 percent growth compared to 2006.

The project, which will create the backbone of an updated distribution system, is almost half-completed with existing terminals in Brno, South Moravia, Èeské Budìjovice, South Bohemia, and Plzeò, West Bohemia. The Teplice, North Bohemia-based terminal, which is under construction, will be completed by the end of August, Stojar said, adding that the construction of a transshipment station in Hradec Králové, East Bohemia, has been delayed and the firm plans to finish it in the second quarter of next year. In 2008 the Prague and Olomouc, Central Moravia, terminals are scheduled to be built. The last two terminals will be built in 2009 in Ostrava, North Moravia, and another in the capital, Stojar said.

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DHL takes capacity stakes

Posted by | Jul 21, 2007 | |

DHL has long depended on the capacity of others for its cargo lift, but the operator’s latest moves in international and domestic markets show clear signs that controlling capacity is increasingly important in the express business. The carrier took a big step last month toward greater influence – although DHL insists it is not control – of lift with a 49 percent equity stake in ASTAR Air Cargo, one of its two outsourced lift providers in the United States.

The financial interest, for undisclosed terms, in the independent cargo airline that was once DHL Airways follows by several months DHL’s similar equity stake in Polar Air Cargo, a USD 150 million interest that came along with an agreement to guarantee DHL space on Polar’s 747 freighters. DHL also has increased its interest in Blue Dart, the largest domestic air express operator in India to boost its presence in that growing market.

“Our investment in ASTAR signals another major commitment to the U.S. market by DHL,” said Hans Hickler, chief executive officer of DHL Express in the United States.

Hickler joins the ASTAR board under the purchase, joining airline President and CEO John Dasburg and the two non-management owners. That, along with the 49 percent interest and 24.9 percent voting stake, keeps Deutsche Post-owned DHL within the bounds of U.S. legal restrictions against foreign ownership of airlines.

ASTAR attorney Elliott Seiden said the U.S. Department of Transportation had already approved the equity purchase. “We assured them this would not come close to tipping the scales on DOT’s ownership and control rules,” he said.

The only impact on ASTAR’s operations, said Seiden, was that DHL and ASTAR had extended their ACMI contract for U.S. domestic express flights for four years, to 2019, making their relationship “more stable, more secure.”

DHL’s other air capacity provider in the United States, ABX Air, has been seeking to diversify its business to become less dependent on DHL and recently signed a freighter lease agreement with All Nippon Airways. An ASTAR spokesman said DHL equity stake “doesn’t restrain or restrict ASTAR from pursuing” other business.

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