Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Toll aims to buy Chinese logistics firms

Posted by | Oct 27, 2006 | |

Toll Holdings, Australia’s leading transport and logistics group, is seeking to acquire logistics companies in China to expand its growing Asian business. It also plans to use its majority stake in domestic airline Virgin Blue to grow its air freight business.

Toll CEO Paul Little told the company’s AGM this week that Toll was continuing to seek small “ bolt-on” acquisitions to enhance its Asian services. Speaking later to Australian media, he said any deals in China would be “very significant” in terms of bringing value to its transport and logistics services, particularly from China to Australia.

The Australian market leader recently re-branded SembLog, the Singapore-based logistics company it acquired earlier this year, as Toll Asia in order to set the stage for expanding its logistics business through Asia. China is now a major importer of Australian raw materials while Australia imports large amounts of Chinese-made products.

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New FedEX facility speeds delivery

Posted by | Oct 27, 2006 | |

Global transport and logistics company FedEx has moved into a new facility at the airport, which promises to speed up delivery times and make room for the future possibility of company aircraft flying directly into Brisbane.

The purpose-built, AUD3.5 million facility is close to the runway in Export Park, Qantas Dr, and more than doubles FedEx’s capacity for air express freight in Brisbane.

The 7850sq m facility provides more than 2000sq m of warehouse and distribution space, making it more than twice the size of its former facility in Herston and with sufficient land for future expansion.

It is now FedEx’s largest facility in Queensland, including a number of specially designed features to enable faster cargo clearance and provide Brisbane with closer and faster access to world trade.

FedEx regional vice-president South Pacific, David Ross, who visited Brisbane this week for the official opening, said he remembered approaching the Brisbane Airport Corporation just 16 months ago about building a facility and now it was up and running.
“Brisbane is one of the key centres for growth which is why we are investing in this facility”

FedEx has acquired a 10-year lease with a five-year option of the BAC land for the facility.

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Parcelforce Worldwide appoints Promodus to direct marketing roster

Posted by | Oct 26, 2006 | |

Parcelforce Worldwide has appointed Promodus to its direct marketing roster to handle a project aimed at increasing the company’s customers.

Promodus, which specialises in advocacy marketing, has created a campaign for the Royal Mail-owned brand to generate referrals from its most-satisfied business customers. The activity breaks this month and continues into the New Year.

Parcelforce head of marketing services Heather Bayliss says: “In a market with increasing competition, advocacy marketing is critical for us because it allows us to secure and exploit our loyal users.”

Promodus was appointed to the roster without a pitch, but the news follows speculation about a review of Parcelforce’s direct marketing roster last year.

The company was thought to be in talks with a number of undisclosed agencies about the account but a full-scale review has not yet begun.

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GLS invests EUR 20 million on new barcode technology

Posted by | Oct 26, 2006 | |

GLS France is introducing 3,000 wireless barcode scanners this autumn to improve parcel delivery tracking as part of a EUR 20 million group investment across Europe.

Using GPRS technology, French clients will be able to track and trace deliveries in a more advanced manner using the so-called Uni-Scan system. Proof of delivery data will be transmitted in real-time into the company’s central system, providing same-day tracking of shipment status.

In addition, GLS France has installed new data reading terminals throughout its hubs and depots. These can handle 1,200 parcels an hour instead of the previous 400 parcels.

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Romania's B2B Parcel Delivery Market at 40 Mln Euro in 2006

Posted by | Oct 26, 2006 | |

Romania’s business-to-business (B2B) parcel delivery market will reach 40 million euro (USD50.3 million) this year, a top official of express delivery services company TNT Romania, a subsidiary of the Dutch TNT Express, said.
“The B2B market will be around 40 million euro by the end of this year. The market was about 25-30% lower last year,” Bogdan Dragotoiu, TNT Romania country customer service manager, told SeeNews in a recent interview.
The market is in the midst of an adolescent growth phase, with an increasing degree of awareness of the delivery solutions throughout the companies active in Romania, he said.
Dragotoiu said he estimates the country’s parcel delivery market will grow by more than 40% in 2007, mostly due to Romania’s accession to the European Union on January 1 next year.

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