Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

AM PM making Mexico proud

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

The express package delivery group from Jalisco, Mexico, AM PM, founded by Pablo Moreno Valenzuela, yesterday won the World Mail Awards prize thanks to a technological innovation called EyeTrack, a system that permits company to know the exact time and place of delivery. AM PM has patented the system and has had interest from other express delivery groups from other countries in buying a copy. EyeTrack took 18 months to perfect and cost USD 5mil to develop. The delivery-man himself wears devices around his neck that scan at the critical moment and send information back to their base where special software interprets it, explains technological director at AM PM, Bernardo Bravo Gaxiola.

The firm has 4,000 employees and 12 distribution centres (in Jalisco, Baja California Norte and Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora, Distrito Federal, Guanajuato, Nuevo Leon, Nayarit, Colima and Michoacan) plus 1,500 vehicles; it is the nation’s biggest such enterprise and focuses on mass-mailing and credit-card deliveries, having been founded 16 years ago. It beat firms such as DHL Global Mail, Deutsche Post, the U.S. Postal Service and the Royal Mail to the World Mail prize. AM PM will invest around USD 6.5mil in 2007 on technological development alone.

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Masterlink Express Ltd. changed into DPD Polska Ltd.

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

On May 22, 2007 Masterlink Express ltd. was legally transformed into DPD Polska ltd.

The change will allow the company to build and strengthen its international image, effectively compete with integrators, increase market share in international segment and maintain dynamic development.

“Our vision of the near future is to attain the strong European position, being a company with local dynamism and flexibility, European strength and international potential, says Rafal Nawloka, DPD Polska President.

DPD Polska plans further development and investments in Poland. The plans include the purchase of building plots in order to build depots in the biggest Polish cities, the modernization of existing depots, introduction of new international services, investments in IT systems and staff trainings.

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DHL to open new logistics base in Hungary

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

Courier services provider DHL Expressz Magyarország Kft will launch the construction of a logistics base near the Fly Balaton airport in Sármellék.

The 2,400 square meter facility will be constructed by the Hungarian-Irish Cape Clear Aviation Kft for a budget of Ft 600 million (USD 3.24 million). The Hungarian DHL arm will take over operation of the site in September, when the facility is scheduled to be completed. Company head Martin Studer said the Sármellék node will be the company’s second Hungarian base of operation, after the completion of its other complex in Budapest at the end of the summer. The new site will house DHL’s Airbus A300 carrier planes, which will allow for faster completion of deliveries. The DHL Sármellék site is the first in what is planned to be a 25 hectares logistics park, where numerous investors are expected to settle in the coming years. (Gazdasági Rádió, Magyar Hirlap)

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UPS

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

UPS announced its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles – already the industry’s largest – had expanded with the deployment of 50 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks.

The 50 hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) will operate in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. These new trucks join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use.

“We’re excited to be among the first to deploy the latest in HEV technology because it promises a 45% increase in fuel economy in addition to a dramatic decrease in vehicle emissions,” said Robert Hall, Director of UPS Ground Fleet Engineering.

The 50 new HEV package cars are expected to reduce fuel consumption by roughly 44,000 gallons over the course of a year compared to an equivalent number of traditional diesel trucks. The hybrids also should reduce by 457 metric tons the amount of CO2 gases released annually into the atmosphere.

The new hybrid power system allows UPS to use a smaller diesel engine than would be required in a conventional delivery truck, thus saving on fuel and pollution-causing emissions. A battery pack, motor/generator and power control system are added, which allows electric power to be fed into the powertrain when conditions demand it, providing further savings.

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