Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL Express appoints business development manager for Jordan

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

DHL Express, the express and logistics company has announced the appointment of Yazan Tayem as Business Development Manager for Jordan.
Tayem will manage the tactical development of new business and maintenance of existing businesses in line with DHL’s profitability and growth targets. In addition, he will be responsible for executing the development and implementation of marketing plans in close collaboration with the Country Marketing Team, helping to play a key role in enhancing the market share for DHL Express in Jordan.
‘We are delighted to welcome Yazan Tayem as our new Business Development Manager; Yazan brings over five years experience from DHL UAE as Customer Service and Territory Manager. He has the drive, skills and commitment necessary for his current position at DHL Jordan, and the challenge of taking it to the next level of success,’ said Nael Attiyat, Commercial Manager, DHL Express Jordan

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DHL strike threat widens after jobs move

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

DHL, the German company which is set to take over a multibillion-pound part of the National Health Service, was facing a strike yesterday by up to 5,000 employees in Britain who allege that management is behaving like “Victorian mill owners”.

The parcels company was accused of planning to dismiss 3,000 permanent staff to replace them with 2,500 casual workers in a move that would mean DHL did not have to make national insurance payments.

While ministers havetried to assure NHS workers being switched to DHL that the company was a good employer, unions claimed yesterday it was involved in a “race to the bottom” in terms of employment standards.

News of the strike threat at DHL Express came before a second 24-hour stoppage, starting tonight, by members of the public service union Unison at NHS Logistics, who are protesting at the takeover by the German group. The walkout coincides with a debate on the health service at the Labour Party conference in Manchester.

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FedEx upgrades aging Boeing fleet

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. will spend USD2.6 billion to buy and upgrade nearly 90 Boeing 757-200s to replace its aging fleet of Boeing 727s.
The aircraft will begin flying between 2008 and 2016, the Memphis-based shipping company said Monday. The 757s have 20 per cent greater cargo capacity and use less fuel, the company said.
The larger, more fuel-efficient aircraft will decrease spending on fuel and reduce pollution and airport noise, the company said.
The company said it hadn’t yet reached agreements to acquire the planes.

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Agent Kartonix and his Special Packaging service

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

DPD Masterlink introduced a new added value service, Special Packaging. This service will not only help the customer to save valuable time and money, but also decrease the number of complaints concerning damaged parcels, which resulted from insufficient packaging.

In order to use the services of a courier company one must prepare a parcel for transport, which means providing adequate packaging. Beyond doubt, the most problematic objects are those, which due to their size do not fit into standard envelopes and carton boxes or are so fragile that only carefully packed can avoid damage during transport. These objects are for e.g. big format posters, electronic devices or porcelain.

Thanks to the service Special Packaging the customer can, not only, purchase 13 different formats of packages for a preferential price carton and polystyrene boxes, tubes, bubble foil, plastic envelopes, pallets, but also order the service Special Project Logistics, meaning which DPD Masterlink will conduct the whole process of distribution starting from the collection of components from the customer, through picking&packing according to individual requirements up to delivery and preparation of specialist reports.

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Japan's major parcel deliverer to end deals with UPS

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

Yamato Transport Co. will start its own international delivery service as a replacement for a service deal with United Parcel Service starting on Oct. 1, the company said on Monday.

Yamato, the leading private parcel delivery service company in Japan, is ready to launch its own service, which it says will be up to 60 percent cheaper than UPS.

The Tokyo-based company expects that there is enough demand for it services, including the shipment of business documents and free sample distribution. It aims to deliver 3 million parcels, and 10 percent of the international small cargo market.

In its new service, the company set prices by dividing the world into four areas and weight into seven areas, from one kilogram up to 25. Delivery of a one-kilogram parcel from Tokyo to any city in Asia will be as much as 1,600 yen, as opposed to the UPS “deputy” delivery for 4,000 yen, the company said. Delivery will take three to seven days.

(116.44 yen = 1 USD)

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