Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL expands Time Definite Delivery service to Vietnam

Posted by | Dec 26, 2006 | |

DHL announced today the expansion of its Time Definite Delivery (TDD) service to Vietnam. The new service will commence on 4 January 2007.

A suite of time-definite delivery products, DHL’s TDD portfolio comprises StartDay Express for guaranteed delivery by 9 a.m., and MidDay Express for delivery by noon. With this latest service enhancement, DHL will start providing MidDay Express for Vietnam-bound documents. Customers in Japan will now be able to send documents to Vietnam by noon of the next business day.

With this latest service enhancement, DHL expects increased demand for MidDay Express document delivery services bound for Vietnam from consumer durable manufacturers such as those producing personal computers and home appliances, as well as banks and other financial institutions. Total import and export volumes in Vietnam have grown between 19 and 24 % year-on-year respectively for the first nine months of 2006, and demand for express and logistics services are also increasingly growing with Vietnam’s scheduled World Trade Organization accession in January 2007.

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Empost to install AED 6 mn advanced IT communications system

Posted by | Dec 24, 2006 | |

Empost, the UAE’s national courier company is investing AED 6 million in installing an advanced IT communications system in it’s over 425-strong fleet of delivery vans and motorcycles as part of its ongoing initiatives to improve operational efficiency and customer services.
Under the communications upgrade plan, Empost courier vehicles will be equipped with the latest in wireless communication technologies such as the mobile data service, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), the satellite-based navigation system, GPS (Global Positioning System), messaging and tracking systems.
The advanced system provided by Cisco Systems updates itself automatically – the information available needs to be entered once, thereafter it will be updated automatically from time to time.
The system will also provide a billing program that will make it easier to the customer to pay everything online.

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Austrian Post completes acquisition of Germany's trans-o-flex

Posted by | Dec 22, 2006 | |

Austrian Post has officially completed the acquisition of a 74.9% majority holding in German express parcels company trans-o-flex.

The Austrian postal group announced that the existing trans-o-flex management headed by Klaus J. Heinz would remain in place. Thomas Doll, head of corporate controlling at Austrian Post, will also take on the role of trans-o-flex financial director.

Austrian Post plans to use trans-o-flex, and its European partner network Eurodis, as its main platform to develop its European B2B parcels distribution business.

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DHL expands Time Definite Delivery for Import Express to Nagoya area

Posted by | Dec 21, 2006 | |

DHL announced today the launch of Import MidDay Express – a service to guarantee delivery of imported documents and parcels by noon – in the Nagoya area. The service provided by DHL Express Japan will be available from 4 January 2007.

In the Nagoya area, year-on-year sales in the January-November 2006 period increased 30% for the Import Express service and 110% for Time Definite Delivery (TDD) services. To meet the rising demand for the two services in Nagoya, Import MidDay Express, which began service in Tokyo and Osaka on 1 June 2006, will be launched in Nagoya with an aim to further expand and diversify the services offered in this region. Demand for Import MidDay Express in the Nagoya area is expected from the high-tech, textile and apparel, and automobile industries.

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Environmental concerns lead Deutsche Post to RFID

Posted by | Dec 20, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post World Net has launched a project to develop passive RFID tags incorporating a small, rewriteable display for use on mail containers. The D-RFID tags, as they’re called, will be used as part of an RFID application under development to track DPWN’s 6 million yellow shipping containers. The company utilizes the crates to hold the 70 million letters that pass through its 84 distribution centers each day.

DPWN currently throws away about 500 million of these paper labels per year. Printing 500 million labels annually is still the cheapest way for it to label the reusable plastic bins, however, so the company initiated a project called Pariflex (Passive RFID with Flexible Bistable Display) to eliminate this environmental waste. D-RFID tags are high-frequency passive RFID tags with displays powered by the tags, which draw their energy from the magnetic field of the RFID interrogator.

The Pariflex project got rolling in October 2005 and will run until September 2008, funded with euro2.5 million (USD3.3 million) from the German Federal Ministry and Research (BMBF). The companies involved will also contribute to the budget if government funds don’t cover expenses, said Gerhard Stönner, DPWN’s head of engineering in the mail division and a manager of the D-RFID project. So far, the partners have developed demonstration tags with the full functionality needed by the application, though these tags contain batteries.

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