Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

FedEx delivers operation to New Haven facility

Posted by | Apr 10, 2007 | |

FedEx Home Delivery has outgrown its facility on the north side of Fort Wayne and plans to relocate to the FedEx Ground facility in New Haven that was built three years ago.

FedEx planned to start construction early this month on a 15,000-square-foot expansion of the 55,000-square-foot FedEx Ground facility. Executives expect the new location to be operational in August.

The relocation to New Haven is part of a nationwide expansion for FedEx Home Delivery.

The company is looking at adding nine new hubs and expanding 37 existing hubs, as well as relocating or expanding close to 300 local facilities, such as the one serving the Fort Wayne area.

Currently, FedEx Home Delivery operates a network of more than 500 distribution hubs and local terminals throughout the United States and Canada.

Bloomberg reported late last month FedEx Corp. has been growing more rapidly in U.S. ground shipping than its larger rival, United Parcel Service.

FedEx Ground volume rose 12 percent in the most recent quarter, while UPS gained 3.6 percent, according to analyst Donald Broughton of A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in St. Louis.

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DHL "Virtual Warehouse" service relaunched

Posted by | Apr 10, 2007 | |

DHL announced a new shipment visibility enhancement to its DHL Global Forwarding Consolidated Distribution Service (CDS), a US Import service that enables customers to reduce brokerage fees and shorten delivery times for shipments originating in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The new web-based tracking service provides point-to-point tracking for shipments as they pass through DHL’s international freight forwarding and U.S. Express network.

The relocation of manufacturing bases worldwide has required businesses to operate on a global scale, with products moving greater distances across multiple borders. To speed up shipments through this lengthened supply chain, DHL created CDS, a “virtual” warehouse which eliminates the need for a costly distribution center. With CDS, bulk shipments sent from overseas can be broken down and inducted directly into the DHL US Express or Global Forwarding network for final delivery to the end consumer, bypassing time-consuming warehouse stops.

With web-based tracking, DHL customers can now get full visibility of their goods through the CDS service, from point of production to point of purchase. Customers can track shipments from a single tracking site, and obtain near real time information on the status of shipments as they transfer from bulk international air or ocean line-haul shipments to smaller units within the DHL U.S. Express or Global Forwarding heavyweight network.

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DHL launches trade software

Posted by | Apr 9, 2007 | |

Global express and logistics company DHL launched on April 9 a final enhancement to its Global Trade Services platform.

The new feature expands and completes the comprehensive GTS suite launched in late 2006, the company said. Along with features for importers/exporters, brokerage and trade automation, the new feature called Trade Advisory Services is designed to facilitate cross-border trading by helping businesses manage complex duty regulations, shorten lengthy business processes, and lessen the stress of global trade management.

US-based consultants Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services developed the new feature in partnership with DHL.

TAS includes services to help obtain necessary certifications for C-TPAT and AEO. It provides assistance, advisory and management activities for duty preference and origin programs such as duty reduction and duty deferral schemes. The program will help customers modernize existing customs or import/export systems and procedures, as well as offer a customs training program to businesses to equip their staff with relevant technical knowledge to handle customs compliance issues and trade complexities. It also provides classification codes, analyses and arguments that can be put forth to customs authorities along with assistance in gaining classification rulings in certain countries.

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UPS employment rises over 20,000 in Louisville

Posted by | Apr 7, 2007 | |

UPS employment in the Louisville area has topped 20,000 for the first time, and the shipping giant expects to add more than 5,000 workers with the completion of a USD1 billion expansion of the Worldport air-package hub at Louisville International Airport in November 2010.

UPS’ 20,674 workers at the end of last year outnumbered Jefferson County Public Schools’ employment and represented an increase of nearly 2,300 workers from a year earlier.

The June opening of a 700,000-square-foot heavy-freight air hub, which has about 1,100 workers, made up a significant part of the hiring, said Pat Murphy, work force planning manager.

Employment was relatively steady at UPS’ air division, including pilots, package handlers and administrative positions; its ground division, which includes the brown-truck package delivery service; and Supply Chain Solutions, the company’s logistics operation, Murphy said.

In 1982, when United Parcel Service introduced overnight service to a small air-package sorting center it had opened in Louisville the previous year, the company had 115 workers here.

Murphy said he does not expect more large increases in employment until the first phase of the Worldport expansion is complete in 2009, with final construction work ending the next year. UPS expects the added capacity will create 1,284 full-time jobs and 3,787 part-time positions.

Worldport was the largest capital expansion project in UPS history, doubling the air hub’s size to 4 million square feet and boosting the sorting capacity from 215,000 packages per hour to 304,000.

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