Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL announce shipping system enhancements

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

DHL today announced enhancements to its DHL EasyShip family of PC-based shipping solutions. The new upgrades provide customers with a number of value-added features and enhancements, including access to more DHL services, faster installation and setup, and improved rate visibility.
The new upgrades include:

– Improved rate visibility for shipment processing
– Simplified import/export to more easily upload large data files for mass shipping distributions
– Enhancements to increase speed and ease of EasyShip Professional installation
– Option to request DHL signature delivery service
– Addition of expedited DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service

DHL offers several shipping software platforms, including EasyShip Connect, a software solution for smaller-volume shipping customers to use on their own PC; EasyShip Professional, a stand-alone shipping application for a customers’ PC, designed for medium-volume shippers who prefer to process shipments without a constant internet connection; EasyShip Professional Plus, a fully functional PC shipping station provided by DHL for low- to medium-volume customers; and EasyShip Enterprise, a high-performance, server-based shipping system that supports multiple shipping stations.

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TNT plans UK expansion

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

TNT NV said it is considering plans to intensify its challenge to the UK”s state-owned postal group Royal Mail as it declined to comment on speculation that it is planning a bid for Deutsche Post AG.

Chief Executive Peter Bakker said TNT is conducting pilot schemes in a number of UK cities to assess the financial viability of setting up “end-to-end” mail networks, which would enable TNT to deliver mail as well as collect and sort it.
Bakker told AFX News in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that TNT is conducting experiments in Manchester and Glasgow to assess whether it can generate sufficient mail volumes to make end-to-end networks viable.
Meanwhile, the company refused to comment on speculation that it is interested in German logistics giant Deutsche Post AG.

Shares in the latter outperformed the market on Jan 18 amid the rumours, although one Frankfurt-based trader said he thinks the rumours are unrealistic because TNT is much smaller than Deutsche Post.
Bakker said, meanwhile, that TNT is undertaking a number of initiatives to try to reduce carbon emissions from its planes and trucks.

It is experimenting with biofuel-powered lorries in Amsterdam and with zero-emission electric trucks in the UK.

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GLS achieves strong growth for new European express service

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

The new European express parcel service of GLS has grown strongly since its launch last October, according to the Royal Mail division, and new customers have been won for 2007.

GLS Germany subsidiary Der Kurier, which operates the express service for its parent company through its own network, said in a statement that volumes have grown tenfold in just ten weeks since the new product was launched in October 2006.

Der Kurier provides a 24-hour express service from Germany to seven continental European countries: Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark and Hungary. The UK was integrated into the express network with the launch of daily flights by newly-created in-house airline GLS Air from Kassel, close to the Der Kurier hub at Neuenstein in central Germany, to Coventry.

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DHL USA announce shipping system enhancements

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

DHL announced enhancements to its DHL EasyShip family of PC-based shipping solutions. The new upgrades provide customers with a number of value-added features and enhancements, including access to more DHL services, faster installation and setup, and improved rate visibility.

“These enhancements were developed in close collaboration with our shipping customers,” said Keith Lovetro, EVP of Marketing for DHL. “Keeping a close pulse on our customers’ needs help us to continually enhance our systems to fit their specific requirements and grow with the pace of a changing business environment. Our upgrades to DHL EasyShip will improve the DHL customer experience by offering more options and making automated shipping faster and easier,” added Lovetro.

The new upgrades include:
– Improved rate visibility for shipment processing
– Simplified import/export to more easily upload large data files for mass shipping distributions
– Enhancements to increase speed and ease of EasyShip Professional installation
– Option to request DHL signature delivery service
– Addition of expedited DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service.

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TNT completes euro 1 billion share buy-back programme

Posted by | Jan 24, 2007 | |

Further to the share buy-back programme announced on 6 November 2006, TNT N.V. announces that:

on 18 January 2007, it purchased 361,000 TNT N.V. ordinary shares at an average price of euro 35.4013 per share,
on 19 January 2007, it purchased 225,000 TNT N.V. ordinary shares at an average price of euro 35.2250 per share,
on 22 January 2007, it purchased 209,000 TNT N.V. ordinary shares at an average price of euro 35.1995 per share,
on 23 January 2007, it purchased 32,809 TNT N.V. ordinary shares at an average price of euro 35.1530 per share,
during the period from 6 November 2006 until and including 23 January 2007, it purchased 30,947,707 TNT N.V. ordinary shares at an average price of euro 32.3126 per share, and

as the total amount of the share buyback until and including January 23, 2007 therefore amounts to the announced maximum of euro 1 billion, the share buy-back programme has been completed.
TNT’s issued share capital consists of 422,767,601 shares. This number includes 30,947,707 shares, repurchased as part of the buy-back programme, and one Special Share repurchased from the State, all of which TNT intends to cancel at the next shareholders’ meeting. Furthermore, it includes 2,856,091 million shares held to hedge employee share schemes. This leaves 388,963,802 million shares which are entitled to dividend per 24 January 2007.

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