Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Deutsche Post World Net opens future lab DHL Innovation Center

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post World Net opened the DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf near Bonn today. The goal and mission of the DHL Innovation Center are to develop marketable, highly innovative products from logistics trends of the future. In addition, the laboratory of the future forms an umbrella organization for all areas of technical innovation management that the company has been exploring. The laboratory of the future plays a key role in the Group’s strategy, with which Deutsche Post World Net as the No. 1 company in the global logistics market intends to become the world’s most innovative logistics company.

The projects at the DHL Innovation Center are being conducted jointly with partners. The innovation partners from the business world include IBM, Intel and SAP. The DHL Innovation Center also maintains research partnerships with the logistics institutes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston and Zaragoza, and the German Fraunhofer institutes. About 20 permanent employees are working on innovation projects in the center. An additional 10 jobs are filled by employees from the innovation and research partners.

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UPS begins interception service

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

United Parcel Service Inc. has begun a new service allowing customers to reroute packages in the process of being delivered to a new destination for a USD10 fee.

The Atlanta-based package shipper calls that new service UPS Delivery Intercept and said it is the industry’s only Web-enabled package interception service. With UPS Delivery Intercept, a shipper uses a UPS package application such as UPS WorldShip, UPS CampusShip or UPS Internet Shipping, clicks on the 1Z tracking number and requests a reroute. Interception requests also can be made through a shipper’s myups.com account as well as via UPS Signature Tracking.

Shippers can access the service 24 hours a day and seven days a week to ask UPS to intercept packages being shipped from and to anywhere in the United States and Puerto Rico.

“A great interception can be the difference between winning and losing, especially in the world of business and complex supply chains,” said Kurt Kuehn, UPS senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.

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DHL Japan vehicle fleet fuel-cell verification tests feature in DaimlerChrysler Japan report

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

DHL has participated in a study on fleet-run verification tests of the F-cell, a fuel-cell vehicle from DaimlerChrysler AG. DHL Japan has been using the F-cell for delivery and pick-up operations since July 2006, as part of DHL’s Green Logistics environmental initiative in Japan. Initial results of the study were presented by DaimlerChrysler Japan Co., Ltd. (DCJ), at the 2007 JHFC Workshop on Monday 12 March 2007.

The fleet-run verification tests by DHL Japan and DCJ have been performed in accordance with principles established by the Japan Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Demonstration Project (JHFC Project), which aims to “verify and evaluate a variety of effects regarding the use of fuel-cell vehicles and hydrogen energy through actual use by business”. At the 2007 JHFC Workshop, which was held at Asahi Hall in Yurakucho for the purpose of reporting on JHFC Project activities, a DCJ spokesperson presented initial results of the fleet-run verification, including data on mileage and hydrogen consumption since July 2006, a video showing the F-cell being used by DHL for pick-up and delivery services, and feedback from DHL drivers, who praised the vehicle’s high accelerating performance, quietness and eco-friendly non-gas emissions.

DHL’s position in global logistics also means recognizing the impact of its activities on the environment and working to reduce the environmental costs of operations. In July 2006, DHL launched its new environmental initiative, Green Logistics, in Japan. The F-cell, which was introduced for DHL Japan’s pickup and delivery services as the first phase of this initiative, is the world’s first mass-produced fuel-cell car.

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Mexico DHL opens operations centre in Merida

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

Global carrier and package delivery company DHL, part of German postal services operator Deutsche Post, announced on March 26, 2007, the opening of a new operations centre in the city of Merida, southeastern Mexico.

The centre will allow DHL to strengthen its market presence in Mexico and to also expand its operations to the USA. The new facility will allow DHL to transport over 38,000 parcels more per year, nearly doubling the company’s current capacity. The cost of the centre was not disclosed.

The expansion in Merida is part of DHL’s programme for Mexico and was encouraged by the growing importance of the city for the country’s economy. Tourists who visited Merida and its surroundings in 2006 marked a considerable increase, which drove up investment projects in the area.

DHL already has operations centres in Mexico City and in the cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara.

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UPS changes the delivery game with new intercept service

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

UPS announced the launch of UPS Delivery Intercept, an automated service that gives customers ultimate flexibility and control by enabling shippers to intercept and reroute packages before they’re delivered.

UPS Delivery Intercept is the industry’s only Web-enabled package interception service. With UPS Delivery Intercept, a shipper simply uses a UPS package application such as UPS WorldShip®, UPS CampusShip® or UPS Internet Shipping®, clicks on the 1Z tracking number and requests a reroute. Interception requests also can be made through a shipper’s myups.com account as well as via UPS Signature Tracking®.

Shippers can access the service 24/7 to request UPS to intercept packages being shipped from and to anywhere in the United States and Puerto Rico.

UPS Delivery Intercept is powered by a UPS innovation known as Package Flow Technology, which enables UPS not only to map more efficient routes for drivers but also to flag packages for special handling while they are in the UPS network. In fact, an interception can even be executed after a package is on board one of UPS’s familiar brown delivery vehicles.

UPS Delivery Intercept is available for all small package deliveries, excluding packages using UPS SonicAir® service. UPS Delivery Intercept costs USD 10 per interception and because of the reliability of the new system, is charged only on completion of the intercept.

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