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DHL establishes new international gateway in Southern California

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

DHL opened its new international gateway in Southern California to enhance service quality and meet the growing needs of DHL customers shipping to and from Asia-Pacific and the Western United States.

To establish the new International Gateway operation, DHL has invested nearly USD 3 million at its West Coast Distribution Facility in Riverside, Calif., adding on-site offices specifically for providing customs-processing and clearance functions related to DHL international shipments upon arrival. The newly expanded operation will come fully online with the arrival on Tuesday, March 27 of a flight from DHL’s Central Asia SuperHub in Hong Kong into the facility.

DHL’s Riverside ground and air hub personnel will process letters and packages as they are off loaded from the Asia-Pacific flight and channeled directly into the DHL West Coast distribution network, making for faster door-to-door delivery of DHL customer shipments from Asia-Pacific to the Western U.S.

The opening of DHL’s sixth U.S. International Gateway will be the company’s third in California. In addition to the new international gateway operation in Riverside, DHL maintains five other U.S. gateways operations in Wilmington, Ohio; Miami; New York; Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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DHL UAE promotes natural gas fleet

Posted by | Mar 25, 2007 | |

Under the slogan “we travel naturally”, DHL has announced its plans to add compressed natural gas powered vans (CNGs) to its UAE express delivery fleet.
With natural gas continuing to develop as an alternative fuel of choice, and a forecast of 20 per cent natural gas share of road traffic fuel consumption in the UAE by 2012, the express and logistics leader is putting two environmentally-friendly units through a pilot testing phase as part of a plan to expand its UAE natural gas fleet in the coming years.

DHL UAE was recently upgraded to ISO 14001 accreditation, the internationally recognised standard for Environmental Management Systems (EMS), after continuous extensive improvements.
Developments included advanced staff training to raise environmental awareness, as well as publishing DHL’s environmental policy as part of the parent company DPWN’s first sustainability report in June 2006, setting clear environmental objectives and targets.
Gasoline and diesel powered vehicles contribute to 80pc of environment pollution in the UAE followed by factories, a recent study conducted by the Strategic Planning Department for Transport at the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai revealed.

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UPS Airlines is retiring its fleet of 727s

Posted by | Mar 25, 2007 | |

UPS Airlines was founded in 1988 with seven leased Boeing 727s, and for the next decade the plane remained the backbone of the shipping giant’s growing fleet.
But by August, UPS will fly the last of its 16 remaining 727s to the New Mexico desert, where they’ll be stored.
The planes, built from the early 1960s until August 1984, no longer fit UPS’ needs, spokesman Mark Giuffre said.
UPS has placed several orders for new planes over the past year or two, including 27 Boeing 767-300ER freighters announced last month.
The freighters are to be delivered between 2009 and 2012.
The company also has firm commitments to buy 10 Boeing 747-400 jets to be delivered by next year.

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Velocity Express renews USD 13m financial sector contract

Posted by | Mar 23, 2007 | |

US delivery firm Velocity Express has announced that it recently signed a multi-year contract renewal, representing more than USD 13 million in revenue per annum, with one of the world’s largest financial institutions. The name of the customer was not disclosed.

As part of the agreement, Velocity Express will continue to manage the primary transportation needs for this customer in key business regions across the country, including markets in the south, northeast and west coast states.

Velocity Express said that the contract extension helps to reaffirm its position as the leading provider of time-definite regional delivery solutions to the financial services sector. The company provides daily service to and from thousands of bank branches and proof centers across the United States.

“This significant contract renewal demonstrates the value we bring to our customers every day,” said Drew Kronick, Executive Vice President of Velocity Express. “We are excited with this opportunity to continue to serve this important customer, and further to expand our service offering to the financial services industry.”

The contract renewal extends the agreement to September 30, 2008, subject to the standard terms of trade.

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