Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL breaks ground on new Chicagoland Service Center

Posted by | Aug 29, 2006 | |

DHL, the world’s leading global express delivery and logistics company, today announced it has broken ground on a new, modernized service center operation just two blocks south of O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, IL. DHL will invest USD7 million in the new 78,960-sq.-ft facility, which will serve DHL’s local pickup, delivery and sorting operations. The new DHL Chicago service center is expected to be operational by early 2007.

This is the second recent major facility investment by DHL to enhance operations in the Chicago area. In September 2005, DHL opened a new 70,000-sq.-ft facility on West Cermak Road serving the Chicago loop area and providing pickup and delivery services for DHL’s largest customers in the financial, legal, and banking industries. The new airport area facility will feature state-of-the-art conveyors and sorting systems to process a higher volume of customer shipments more quickly throughout the area.

The new facility, located closer to the main artery off Mannheim Road to improve DHL customer access, will handle a wide variety of shipments – including domestic and international parcels as well as palletized, loose-load and container freight.

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Paketeria opens first logistics centre

Posted by | Aug 29, 2006 | |

Paketeria, the German parcel shipping and office services retail chain, has opened its first logistics centre to cope with rising volumes.

The base is located in Hofgeismar, close to Kassel in central Germany. “Due to our nationwide expansion we are bundling logistics for parcel services in the centre of Germany. The planning is to expand the new site in the coming months,” said Paketeria founder and managing director Andy Rösch.

Logistics expert Tony Prchal, who is developing the Paketeria logistics system, added: “In the opinion of leading industry experts, parcel volumes in Germany alone will grow by 300% in the coming years through the ongoing revolution in online retailing. A few years ago it was the major groups which drove change in the market, but in the future it will be mostly consumers and small businesses.”

Paketeria stores operate as retail outlets for mail, parcels and express services through cooperation deals with Pin AG, GLS and TNT Express, and also offer office services. The franchise chain now has more than 50 outlets.

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DHL launches Import Express Online in Venezuela

Posted by | Aug 27, 2006 | |

Jorge Lavignasse, general director of DHL Express Venezuela, states that by the end of this year his firm will have grown 20%. The group already controls an alleged 60%-plus of the local express (goods) transport market. Its new tool known as Import Express Online, a system for the control of dispatches via Internet to make the importer’s work more efficient is paying off well (it will cost around Bolivar dollars 550mil to install for the whole of Venezuela). DHL Express Venezuela, in the knowledge that the nation is a going and growing business concern, should be able to grow sales 20% this year thanks to the value-added services it is offering: not only does it transport merchandise but it helps speed up bureaucratic proceedures at customs for imports or exports it is handling.
Import Express Online is being applied worldwide and supplements other services DHL already offers such as DHL Importa (call-centre help-line) and DHL Personal Import (customer attention for those who carry out sporadic imports).

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FedEx Express and ALPA Announce Tentative Labor Agreement

Posted by | Aug 27, 2006 | |

FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX), and the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l. (ALPA), the collective bargaining representative for FedEx Express pilots, jointly announced today that they reached a tentative agreement (TA) on a new labor contract on Saturday evening. Negotiations have been conducted under the guidance of the National Mediation Board since October 2005 and both parties acknowledged the Board’s support.

The new agreement is subject to review and finalization of contract language, which is expected to be completed shortly. Terms of the tentative agreement are not being released as they first must be reviewed and approved by the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council (MEC). If approved, the TA will be subject to a ratification vote by about 4,700 FedEx pilots and if ratified, the four-year contract would become amendable in 2010.

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Alan Firmin joins PalletFORCE

Posted by | Aug 25, 2006 | |

Kent transport company Alan Firmin has joined the PalletFORCE palletised distribution network in order to enhance the range of services it can offer to its customers.

Alan Firmin decided to become a member of the Network after it recognised the need to diversify its business. “We are an established name in full-load distribution, but many existing and potential customers were also enquiring about smaller pallet drops. Joining a distribution network allows us to become a ‘one stop shop’ and able to accommodate these orders,” comments Paul Denyer, Operations Manager at Alan Firmin.

The choice of PalletFORCE was made after Alan Firmin received several recommendations of its reliability from fellow Transport Association members. The company also felt that PalletFORCE’s member-owned status would be beneficial.

Alan Firmin has been recruited as a Shareholder Member Depot for the BR and parts of the TN and ME postcodes. It will share responsibility for the latter areas with existing PalletFORCE members, as part of the Network’s programme of postcode consolidation.

Based in Snodland, Alan Firmin’s diverse business covers transport, warehousing, property and farming. It currently operates a fleet of 32 tractor units and 5 rigid vehicles.

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