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Epps Retires as President of The UPS Foundation. Lisa Hamilton named successor

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

UPS announced the appointment of Lisa Hamilton, a Public Affairs manager in Washington, D.C., as the next president of The UPS Foundation, succeeding the retiring Evern Cooper Epps.

Hamilton will take the reins of The UPS Foundation in March. A native of Atlanta, she earned a BS degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan. She has been with UPS for 10 years and before her current post, served as The UPS Foundation’s program director.

Founded in 1951 and based in Atlanta, The UPS Foundation donates more than USD 45 million annually to charitable organizations worldwide. The UPS Foundation’s major initiatives include programs that support global volunteerism, literacy programs and hunger relief. In recent years, the company has focused on expanding its philanthropy and volunteer programs outside the United States in tandem with the company’s business expansion.

Epps, a native of Detroit, joined UPS 32 years ago and has served as president of The UPS Foundation since 1998. Only the fourth president in the Foundation’s 55-year history, she has guided the organization through a period of significant growth and change.

During her tenure, The UPS Foundation focused its giving into three primary areas: volunteerism, hunger and literacy.

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Swiss Kuehne & Nagel To Carry Out UK House of Fraser Home Delivery Services

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

Swiss logistics company Kuehne & Nagel International AG started to carry out the home delivery services for made-to-order furniture of UK department stores operator House of Fraser as of the beginning of February 2007, Kuehne & Nagel reported on February 8, 2007.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Under the terms of the contract, Kuehne & Nagel will be responsible for the warehousing and for some 30,000 deliveries annually to customers across UK and Ireland. House of Fraser will make cost savings through reduced inventory by a closer alignment of order to delivery time and through the support of Kuehne & Nagel’s information technology (IT) and booking processes. The logistics company will integrate House of Fraser business into its furniture distribution

network which is used by other unnamed UK furniture retailers for more than 175,000 deliveries annually.

Kuehne & Nagel (www.kuehne-nagel.com) employs 45,000 at 830 locations in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company provides seafreight, airfreight, contract logistics and overland businesses and IT-based supply chain

management services. Its UK and Ireland organisation operates at 80 locations and employs more than 10,000.

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Palletways acquires Italian operation

Posted by | Feb 13, 2007 | |

Palletways Europe, parent company of Palletways UK, has acquired the Italian operation it licensed out in 2002.

Palletways Italia has more than 60 depots and two hub facilities in Bologna and Naples.

As part of the acquisition, Palletways has purchased land near the Bologna facility in order to construct a new 15,000 m2 hub to accommodate future volume growth. Excected to be fully operational by early-2008, the new hub facility will handle express deliveries across Italy and to other parts of Europe served by Palletways.

The acquisition forms part of Palletways’ strategy to provide a dedicated and integrated pan-European network for the express delivery of small consignments of palletised freight.

Palletways now controls all its networks in the UK and mainland Europe, which today comprise more than 250 depots and eight hub facilities, handling around 20,000 pallets a day.

According to Palletways chief executive James Wilson, the company is also in the process of linking the Palletways Italia operation with the company’s other networks covering the Benelux region, Denmark, France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and, later, Spain, to enable cross-border deliveries between all these countries.

Palletways Europe has appointed Roberto Rossi (ex-TNT Logistics) as chairman of Palletways Italia, Bernardo Cammarata (ex-TNT and DHL) as general manager, and Dr Antonio Giambrone as director of finance.

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FedEx Express launches global trade advisory services

Posted by | Feb 13, 2007 | |

FedEx Express Canada announced today a service that will provide support and advice to businesses seeking certification or approval in various cross-border security programs, such as Free and Secure Trade (FAST), Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), Partners in Protection (PIP), and Customs Self Assessment (CSA).

FedEx Global Trade Advisory service will help businesses navigate through the application process by examining their facilities, procedures, and suppliers, making recommendations to address the differences between the client’s existing procedures and what is required for certification requirements.

This service will be supported by regulatory experts who will:
– Conduct examinations of customers’ facilities and business procedures
– Help customers secure their supply chain and achieve customs compliance
– Make recommendations to address identified gaps
– Assist with the application process for cross-border security programs
– Perform on-going account maintenance and security audits

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DHL plans huge investment in Japan and South Korea

Posted by | Feb 13, 2007 | |

DHL plans to invest more than 90 million dollars in the next several years into Japan to strengthen its leading position there, Deutsche Post Chairman Klaus Zumwinkel said Tuesday.

Among its plans is the expansion of its distribution centre at Osaka’s Kansai Airport, Zumwinkel said in Tokyo on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of DHL’s entry into Japan.

From 1999 to 2006, DHL invested about 165 million dollars in expanding its infrastructure in Japan, the world’s second-largest economy. From 2001 to 2006, it invested more than 1.7 billion dollars across the Asia-Pacific region.

DHL also said it plans to invest up to USD 75 mln over the next few years to expand its South Korean operations.

The additional funding commitment will take its total investments in the nation to close to USD 100 mln since 2001, it said. ‘DHL’s growth plans and investments for the Korean market are very much in line with the South Korean government’s vision of establishing Incheon as a preferred logistics hub to serve the North Asia region,’ Klaus Zumwinkel, chairman of the board of Deutsche Post World Net, DHL’s parent company, said.

The investment, which includes the USD 50 mln already announced in Nov 2006, will be used to expand the current DHL Express facility at Incheon Airport, the company said.

The additional funds will also be used to develop existing network infrastructure and further enhance operational and service capabilities, in a bid to meet projected growth in intraAsia trade as well as trade within the Far East region, via Incheon, the company said.

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