Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL gets Ohio air hub funding

Posted by | Mar 6, 2006 | |

State and regional officials in Ohio reached a deal for the Dayton-Montgomery County Port Authority to finance the USD300 million expansion of DHL’s air park in Wilmington, the carrier’s principal air and ground hub in the United States. The Dayton port authority had been locked in litigation with the Clinton County Port Authority involving the rights to finance the deal for more than a year. The agreement reached Monday afternoon says the Clinton County Port will contract with the Dayton port and DHL for the Dayton port to finance the expansion. The agreement also calls for Clinton port to provide the financing for any future projects, adding that the Dayton port will operate in Clinton County only under the current contract, according to a news release.

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German express carrier GO! grows 20% in 2005

Posted by | Mar 6, 2006 | |

German express carrier GO! General Overnight Service increased its revenues by 20 per cent to €200 million last year and raised volumes to over two million parcels. The group is again targeting double-digit growth in 2006 and planning a stronger international presence.

GO! managing director Ralf-Hans Dierks said the double-digit growth had been generated thanks to the organisation’s focus on quality and growth. “GO! has grown organically, focuses clearly on high quality standards and is well positioned regionally, nationally and internationally,” he commented. “We are again targeting a clear increase in consignment volumes this year, and I’m sure we will achieve this.”

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TNT plans USD1 million Bahrain expansion

Posted by | Mar 5, 2006 | |

TNT Express has unveiled plans to invest USD1 million in additional bonded warehouse facilities and new offices in Bahrain. ‘This expansion is also a direct response to growing region-wide demand for end-to-end logistics solutions and to accommodate TNT’s annual growth rate of 30% in our express business. We are focusing on our core express business and networks and success in this area is dependant upon high quality bonded facilities.’ TNT’s planned investment is expected to create an additional 20 jobs for Bahraini nationals.
‘We are determined to create competitive advantage through recruiting, maintaining and developing high quality employees,’ added Gamal.

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The FedEx Edge – interview with CIO

Posted by | Mar 4, 2006 | |

IT’S EASY TO FEEL A BIT SORRY for any company’s chief information officer these days. The pace of technology is accelerating, and costs seem to be going up just as fast. But for Rob Carter, the CIO of FedEx, the job may seem even more daunting. He’s responsible for all the computer and communication systems that keep this staggeringly complex outfit running. He has to connect 39 hubs around the world with 677 airplanes, over 90,000 vehicles, and more than 200,000 employees delivering six million packages a day in 220 countries. Seconds count. The least glitch could cost millions of dollars and trigger a PR disaster. And if anything goes wrong, you know who takes the heat.

But don’t feel all that sorry for him. Carter works for a boss, CEO and founder Fred Smith, who completely believes in the importance of infotech. He gives Carter a $1 billion annual budget. Most important, Carter is at the strategic heart of what makes FedEx successful. The company is America’s second most admired and the world’s fourth most admired, by FORTUNE’s latest survey (see fortune.com), and Carter knows he helped put it there and must keep it there. If you’re in the field you love, a job doesn’t get much better than that.

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Empost signs agreement with Emirates Technologies for domestic and international courier services

Posted by | Mar 4, 2006 | |

Empost, the UAE’s national courier service, recently signed an agreement with Emirates Technologies to meet all domestic and international courier requirements of the UAE based technology solution provider. ‘This partnership gives Empost an excellent opportunity to provide our entire range of cost-effective courier services that will ensure timely and secure delivery of documents. Our agreement with Emirates Technologies comes at a time when we are stepping up our focus on expanding our client base in the private sector, and the addition of Emirates Technologies to this list adds a lot of value to our portfolio,’ said Sultan Al Midfa. ‘Our partnership will certainly be mutually beneficial as we can be assured of the highest quality of technical support and assistance we would require for the electronic services we will be launching at a later stage,’ he added.

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