Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

EU opens inquiry into 7 mln eur state aid for training scheme at DHL site

Posted by | Jun 27, 2007 | |

The European Commission said it has opened a formal investigation into 7 mln eur of state aid which Germany intends to allocate to a training project at a new DHL site in Leipzig-Halle, Germany.

DHL’s training project would derive around 60 pct of the costs from state aid.

The commission, however, said it doubts that the aid is compatible with EC Treaty rules, as much of the training seems to be required by law or be otherwise necessary to operate in the new location. It said DHL would have to provide the training to its employees even without the aid as the company must employ new workers in order to start operating.

Competition commissioner Neelie Kroes added: ‘I am always happy to approve training aid which has positive external effects for the society as a whole. However, in this case, I have concerns that DHL would have carried out this training project in any event, and therefore does not need the aid.’

DHL is a worldwide service provider in the parcel delivery and airfreight sector, wholly owned by Deutsche Post AG.

Following its move to Leipzig-Halle, DHL is currently building a new delivery and airfreight centre which is expected to become operational by the end of Oct 2007. DHL plans to employ around 1,500 people and to provide training to 480 employees.

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'NewCo' cargo airline established by DHL-Lufthansa

Posted by | Jun 27, 2007 | |

LUFTHANSA Cargo and DHL Express will establish a joint cargo carrier, commencing operations from Leipzig Halle airport in 2009.

Project name ‘NewCo’ will operate 10 freighters, most likely Boeing 777F or Boeing 747-400F aircraft. The new airline will fly intercontinental routes to North America, Asia and the Middle East, carrying express shipments and general cargo. The airline will be headed by Lufthansa manager Thomas Papke.

DHL was originally in negotiations with Cargolux and Emirates for such a venture. Insiders expect that personal relations between DHL and Lufthansa managers were key in the tie-up between the two companies. Klaus Zumwinkel, chairman of DHL’s parent company DPWN, is member of Lufthansa’s board of directors while Lufthansa’s former chief executive officer Jürgen Weber has a seat in DPWN’s board of directors.

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A rarity in future: New post offices

Posted by | Jun 26, 2007 | |

Suburban growth is generating thousands of new addresses in bedroom communities around Jacksonville. But the U.S. Postal Service hasn’t built a new post office in the metropolitan area since 2001.

Instead, the U.S. Postal Service is leasing space in shopping centers for post offices or installing postal counters inside other businesses, such as pharmacies and convenience stores.

The old model of building a stand-alone post office in a fast-growing community has gone the way of the 39-cent stamp.

John Mica, U.S. Rep. said convincing postal authorities to build more branches has always been challenging, but it’s become tougher as e-mail and fax machines take business from first-class mail. The Postal Service relies primarily on income it gets from selling stamps and other services while delivering 213 billion pieces of mail a year.

Postal Service spokesman Bill Tyler said more customers are doing their postal transactions online at usps.com, which started in 1997. The site averages 26 million visitors a month, and the average order is $80, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Tyler said the more people who go online, the less time they spend waiting in line, which also reduces the need for new brick-and-mortar postal branches. For those who just need stamps, machines are often all they need.

The last time the Postal Service built its own post office in the metropolitan area was six years ago, when it opened an 8,200-square-foot facility on College Drive in Clay County.

In the suburbs, that could be the future trend for a trip to the post office – fill up with gas and send a package at the same place.

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DHL Express signs two-year GBP 36m contract with RS Components

Posted by | Jun 26, 2007 | |

DHL’s new contract with RS Components builds on a long-standing strategic partnership
DHL Express confirms that it has signed a contract worth GBP 36 million over two years with RS Components, Europe’s leading distributor of electrical, electronic and industrial supplies. The contract marks a new stage in the long-standing relationship between the two companies, which is based on ever-improving service levels and new product initiatives.

The contract signed by Chris Muntwyler, CEO DHL Express UK and Ireland, Klaus Goeldenbot, UK General Manager RS Components, and Frank Peplinski, General Manager RS Supply Chain, ensures that DHL will continue to be RS Component’s express delivery distributor in the UK and Europe for the next two years.

RS Components is one of DHL’s large customers in the UK and the company has built much of their existing client base around DHL’s reliable transportation service. DHL provides a domestic delivery service to RS that involves deliveries to RS customers the length and breadth of the UK – around 15,000 deliveries are made using this service every day. DHL delivers a further 1,500 packages a day to RS customers in Europe, from Scandinavia to southern Europe.

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Leipzig elevated to hub status for Lufthansa

Posted by | Jun 26, 2007 | |

Lufthansa Cargo will discontinue freighter flights into and out of Cologne from October and transfer flights to Leipzig to coincide with the opening of the DHL Express Europe hub.

DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo have been jointly operating a route network between Europe, Asia and the USA with their Aerologic intercontinental joint venture since March 2004. Up to 27 October 2007, a major proportion of that network will still be run through Cologne, but then be re-routed through Leipzig from 28 October. Lufthansa will be operating 21 MD-11s flights a week to Leipzig.

There will be no change in the other joint-venture flights:
Brussels – New York – Brussels (five flights weekly)
Frankfurt – East Midlands – Wilmington/Ohio – East Midlands – Frankfurt (once weekly)
East Midlands – Wilmington/Ohio – East Midlands (once weekly)
Additionally, Lufthansa will operate three of its own freighter flights from Leipzig to Atlanta (USA), the Korean capital Seoul and the Turkish capital Istanbul.

Cologne will remain a DHL and Lufthansa Cargo base, but Lufthansa will only be offering capacity ex Cologne in future for cargo carried in the bellies of passenger aircraft or by road feeder services. As a result of the switch to Leipzig, 35 staff will be withdrawn from cargo handling in Cologne and offered posts at other locations.

In 2008, Leipzig is scheduled to become the DHL Express central hub in its European express network.

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