Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

China EMS Flies Abroad to Vie for Share

Posted by | Aug 7, 2006 | |

China Postal Airlines, a carrier under the country’s State Post Bureau, flied to Seoul, South Korean, from Beijing Capital Airport, the first international flight for the airline, which will bolster the competitiveness of China’s state-owned express services provider in the overseas express markets.

Insiders said that China Postal Airlines aims at facilitating Express Mail Service (EMS)’s development and competence in competing with the ambitious global giants.

EMS is the express service arm of China Post, the postal services provider under the wing of SPB.

UPS, FedEx, DHL and TNT now possess an absolute monopoly over the express market in global market, meaning China Postal Airlines must scale up investment in fleet, routes and transport capacity so as to rival them.

As a matter of fact, EMS has taken countermeasures to cope with the overheated competition at home and abroad.

Last year, it started to offer overnight and trans-regional operations, which are just fulfilled by the night flights launched by China Postal Airlines.

SPB has planned to construct a center for express and logistics distribution in Lukou Airport in the southern city of Nanjing and marked out 33 routes to the center from cities like Beijing, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Wuhan, Xi’an and Chengdu.

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Alec Ang appointed as General Manager of DHL Express Singapore

Posted by | Aug 4, 2006 | |

DHL, the world’s leading express and logistics company, today announced the appointment of Alec Ang as General Manager, DHL Express Singapore, with immediate effect.

As General Manager, Mr Ang is responsible for the overall running of all DHL Express’ operations in Singapore. He succeeds Mr Teo Ser Luck, who was recently elected as a Member of Parliament.

Mr Ang joins DHL Express Singapore from DHL Global Customer Solutions (GCS), where he was Vice President of Supply Chain Logistics. During his tenure at GCS, he co-authored the 10th edition of the Global Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Survey, which was done to identify and track key trends and views of the 3PL industry from the perspective of customers who use 3PL services. Mr Ang also won DHL the coveted CIO Award at the CIO Asia Conference Awards 2006 for the innovative use of IT to solve supply chain problems for customers, such as applying Optimization technology to determine efficient locations to site Hubs and cross docks.

Mr Ang is a veteran in the logistics industry with over 10 years of experience. He has held senior positions in all sectors of logistics such as Marketing, Strategic Planning, Pricing, Costing and Supply Chain Management, both at country and regional level.

Mr Ang graduated with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and obtained an MBA from Nanyang Technological University. He is also a qualified accountant with a CPA. Recently, he was awarded a scholarship with the Georgia Technological Institute in Atlanta where he completed a graduate course in international supply chain management.

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TNT Aims To Strengthen Parcel Operations, Mulls Acquisitions

Posted by | Aug 4, 2006 | |

Dutch postal and express company TNT NV aims to strengthen its European Express activities, and could make an acquisition such as Belgian parcel service ABX, spokesman Pieter Schaffels said Friday.
TNT’s European Express is its express delivery service for packages. With an operational hub in Liege, Belgium it handles package traffic from 67 European airports.
Schaffels declined to comment on whether TNT has made a bid for ABX Logistics SA, which is part of NMBS Holding Ltd.
Earlier Friday, Belgian newspaper De Tijd reported that three European postal groups are bidding for ABX, among them U.K.’s Royal Mail, The Belgian Post Group and TNT.
Under European Union regulations, ABX must find a buyer before NMBS merges with U.K. company 3i Group PLC.
With a market share of 21%, TNT is the largest European express delivery company. Chief Executive Peter Bakker has said he wants to further strengthen the division in Europe. “We always look at takeover opportunities to achieve that,” spokesman Schaffels said.

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China Post Airlines launch international cargo flight service

Posted by | Aug 4, 2006 | |

China Post Airlines launched its first international cargo flight service on Thursday, opening an air route from Beijing to Seoul in the Republic of Korea .

The airline, jointly owned by China Southern Airlines and China’s State Post Bureau (China Post), will extend its air routes to Europe and America as well as other countries in Asia when the time is ripe, the Xinhua-run Shanghai Securities News reported Friday.

Facing drastic competition at home from international delivery giants that have entered the Chinese express delivery market, the airline is trying to compete by entering the international cargo market, said the paper.

In line with its commitments to the World Trade Organization, China’s express delivery market was fully opened to competition in December last year. Now international delivery companies such as DHL, FedEx, TNT and UPS hold more than 60 percent of the domestic market.

The market share of China Post’s express mail service (EMS) has been shrinking, challenged not only by foreign players but also by private domestic companies, said the paper.

By April this year, private delivery services accounted for 80 percent of the country’s intracity express service and 50 percent of inter-provincial business.

In an effort to outrun its competitors, China Post last year introduced next-morning delivery and cross-region delivery, using overnight flights. China Post Airlines is the first domestic air company to fly overnight, the paper reported

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TNT Express wins VOLVO Dubai Contract

Posted by | Aug 3, 2006 | |

TNT Express – the world’s leading B2B express delivery company – has unveiled a two-year contract with Volvo for transportation services from the automobile giant’s newly-built Regional Parts Distribution Centre (RPDC) in Dubai.

The distribution centre makes spare parts available to dealers of Volvo trucks, Mack trucks, Renault trucks, Volvo Construction Equipment and Volvo buses in 17 countries throughout the Middle East and Africa.

The link-up will see TNT responsible for transporting more than 1.1 million kilograms of spare parts annually from the Volvo RPDC, of which 90% will be moved through the company’s strategic Middle East Road Network (MERN).

“Key reasons for TNT’s success are its ability to meet and exceed Volvo’s transit time requirements and in offering competitive rates in the high volume trade lanes across the region,” said Darryl Regan, Regional Director for India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA).

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