Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL expanding operations in Shanghai duty free zone

Posted by | Oct 13, 2006 | |

Express and logistics provider DHL has launched operations at a 3.6 mln usd logistics facility at the Waigaoqiao Bonded Logistics Zone (WBLZ) in Shanghai, as part of the further expansion of its forwarding operations on the mainland, the company said.

The new warehouse and logistics facility boosts DHL Global Forwarding’s current investment in China to 30 mln usd. The DHL group’s total investment in the past few years is around 315 mln, it said.

DHL Global Forwarding will also invest an additional 20 mln usd in the next few years to further enhance the company’s network infrastructure, staffing, products and services to meet anticipated growth in China, it said.

Peter Landsiedel, Asia Pacific chief executive of DHL Global Forwarding, told XFN Asia the company had been experiencing 50 pct annual growth in China in recent years and it expected continued levels of growth this year.

He would not make a longer-term forecast but said: ‘Barring any catastrophic development,’ specifically copncerninfg oil prices, ‘we are pretty optimistic of continuing with double digit growth.’ Greater China accounts for more than half of DHL’s Asia-Pacific revenue from forwarding operations, with the mainland accounting for 24 pct or regional revenue, Hong Kong 23 pct and Taiwan 5 pct. The next two largest zones are Singapore with 10 pct and Japan with 9 pct.

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TNT plans decision on freight unit shortly

Posted by | Oct 13, 2006 | |

TNT plans to announce a decision shortly on its future strategy for its Freight Management unit, with disinvestment as one of several options under consideration.

The Dutch group announced earlier this year that it was reviewing synergies between its Freight and Express businesses following the decision to sell TNT Logistics and focus on mail and express activities.

Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad cited TNT CEO Peter Bakker as saying that the company was still reviewing “all options” for TNT Freight Management. A decision was due to be announced by October 30 when TNT will announce its third-quarter financial results.

TNT Freight Management was formerly known as Wilson, the Swedish freight forwarding company acquired by TNT in 2004 for euro 257 million. It was transferred from the Logistics to the Express division as part of TNT’s plan to dispose of its underperforming logistics business.

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German express courier GO could target government-to-government mail in Hungary next year

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

German express courier GO could target the government-to-government (G2G) postal market in Hungary next year, Client Manager Peter Pesztericz told Interfax on Thursday.

“This [the G2G] postal market is a difficult niche to get into because of the heightened security requirements, but it is a market we could look at towards the middle of next year,” said Pesztericz.

G2G mail in Hungary is currently organized through a combination of government couriers and the regular postal service, Pesztericz said, adding that the former is expensive while the latter can be inefficient and is sometimes unreliable.

The G2G postal market in Hungary is relatively small, accounting for about 1 per cent of the total but can be lucrative given the special requirements that pertain in this sector, GO’s International Director Wolf-Rudiger May said.

GO is starting in the G2G market in Austria and Germany and already ships restricted documents for the EU from Brussels to Strasbourg along closed routes, according to May.

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Empost appointed official courier service provider for Iranian Hospital

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

Empost, the UAE’s national courier company has entered into a strategic agreement with the Iranian Hospital (Iranian Red Crescent) in Dubai to provide Health Pack services for the benefit of the hospital and its patients. Empost will now be the official courier service provider for the Iranian Hospital. Under the agreement, Empost will open a dedicated counter within the hospital premises – at the hospital’s visa medical testing centre – to allow patients to avail reliable and cost-effective courier services that ensure timely delivery of their various medical documents. Manned by dedicated Empost staff, the office will handle all outbound business-to-business and business-to-consumer courier traffic such as blood test reports, laboratory test reports and other medical reports and documents.

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China delivers good growth for DHL despite tough competition

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

John Mullen recalls sitting in Sir Peter Abeles’ office in the twin TNT Towers in Sydney in the early 1980s, watching his chief executive brief a junior colleague on how the company was going to break into the Asian package delivery market.

“The strategic discussion was, `Just go and open it’. He asked, `What do you mean by that?’ and Abeles said: `Get on a plane and go and open Asia. It’s got to be the future’.” As head of the Asian division of DHL Express, the global package delivery service owned by German logistics giant Deutsche Post, the 51-year-old Australian has had to move fast to meet the 50 per cent annual increase in parcel volume China has delivered over the past five years. DHL Express now has about 6000 staff in China, having built up the business by exploiting existing relationships with foreign companies that were establishing Chinese manufacturing operations for the first time.

But as growth of the Chinese middle class transforms the economy from being simply a cheap exporter of manufactured goods to a consumer society in its own right, so is DHL’s business changing from just being a conduit for the import of components and export of finished goods.

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