Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

US FedEx completes USD 780 million buy of Watkins Motor Lines

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. has completed its purchase of private trucking company Watkins Motor Lines, adding long-haul services to its freight portfolio.

The Memphis, Tenn.-based package delivery company announced in May it would buy Lakeland, Fla.-based Watkins, a long-haul, less-than-truckload (LTL) business, for USD 780 million in cash.

Watkins has about USD 1 billion in annual revenue. FedEx’s LTL division, FedEx Freight, had revenue of about USD 3.6 billion last year.

The operations of Watkins Motor Lines and Watkins Canada Express, Watkins’ LTL carrier in Canada, will be rebranded as FedEx National LTL and FedEx Freight Canada, respectively, according to a news release.

FedEx rival United Parcel Service Inc. added LTL services last year with the acquisition of Overnite Transport for USD 1.25 billion. Overnite has been rebranded as UPS Freight.

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US FedEx donates USD 1M to Martin Luther King memorial

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

FedEx Corp. announced Tuesday it is donating USD 1 million to help build a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Gina Adams, vice president of government affairs for Memphis-based FedEx Corp., will join Harry E. Johnson, president and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation Inc., and Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Tuesday night to announce FedEx’s contribution in a Washington event.
Other companies, including General Motors, General Electric Co., and Exxon Mobil, have contributed to the memorial, according to the FedEx release. To date, the Memorial Foundation has raised USD 64 million of the USD 100 million needed to build and maintain the memorial.
“Dr. King will be the first man of color to be memorialized among past presidents and war heroes,” Ford said in a statement.

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TNT Post moves closer to 'final mile' delivery service

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

TNT Post’s development of a final mile delivery service is one step nearer after Postcomm’s decision last month to open a consultation into mail-redirection services for the competitive postal market.

The aim of Postcomm’s consultation is to pre-empt any problems if Royal Mail’s rivals introduce mail redirection. Issues will include data protection, and the logistics and financial implications of sharing data.

TNT confirmed developments had been made regarding the launch of a final mile service in Scotland and Manchester, with local offices opening there.

“We welcome Postcomm’s consultation and it is important for us, as new operators, that we can operate on a level playing field,” said David Higham, divisional MD for TNT Post’s access business. “Our customers expect us to be able to redirect their customer’s mail, particularly if we offer end-to-end services.”

While Royal Mail welcomed the consultation, a spokesman said its main priority was the protection of customer data.

According to Bill Wallis, marketing manager at Business Post, parent company of UK Mail, the consultation will have little affect on businesses not planning to offer an end-to-end service. “We have no plans at this stage, and none foreseeable in future, to become an end-to-end operator. For the time being, Royal Mail’s redirection service works for us.”

Postcomm estimates that 1.3 million homes and firms use Royal Mail redirection.

The consultation closes on 31 October.

Last month, Postcomm announced a strategy review on whether Royal Mail meets the needs of customers, which is due to close on 6 November.

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trans-o-flex opens company in Netherlands

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

With immediate effect, the trans-o-flex group is running its Dutch business via its newest subsidiary, trans-o-flex Nederland B.V. The German combifreight operator, specialised in transporting sensitive goods, founded the new company this June together with Marc van Stokrom, Pieter Mäkel and Hank Meeuwsen, three Dutch logistics managers. All three have years of management experience at Dutch logistics companies. Marc van Stokrom is a shareholder and Managing Director of trans-o-flex Nederland. Mäkel and Meeuwsen, who each have the same stake in the company as van Stokrom, are responsible for Sales / Finance and Operations / IT respectively. “We strongly believe in the success potential of the trans-o-flex network in the Netherlands and this engagement gives us a more direct involvement in this process. That’s why we have chosen this joint operation as a new partner in EURODIS, our European network,” says Marc Hackländer, Managing Director of EURODIS GmbH. “Our management trio, with their extensive experience, are there to guarantee in Holland the same high standards of quality as our customers in Germany are used to getting from trans-o-flex.”
The new firm is headquartered in Utrecht and will work out of six sites in Holland.

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DHL wins contract worth GBP 1.6 billion revenue over 10 years with the UK Government's Department of Health

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

DHL Logistics has won a 10-year deal totaling GBP 1.6 billion /Euro 2.3 billion in revenue to manage GBP 22 billion/Euro 32 billion total spend with the UK Government’s Department of Health. DHL will target over GBP 1 billion/Euro 1.4 billion savings over the contract period back to the English National Health Service (NHS). Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO and Chairman of Deutsche Post World Net, said the contract marked the significant success of the Group’s strategy: “After the take-over of Exel and given DHL’s extensive expertise in the health sector, we were able to make our customer a truly convincing offer. We now reap the benefits of both our internationalization strategy and our broad product range.”

Under the agreement, DHL will run a division called NHS Supply Chain, on behalf of NHS Business Services Authority, and be responsible for delivering all procurement and logistics services across an initial 500,000 products to support 600 hospitals and other health providers in England. The business will ensure that public health (NHS) authorities can dedicate more resources to patient care and continue to manage their cost base. It will help protect existing jobs and lead to the creation of over 1,000 additional positions.

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