Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

UPS launches Mail Logic, an international mail service

Posted by | Jan 27, 2006 | |

Today UPS announces the launch of UPS Mail LogicSM, a new international mail service that allows customers to streamline their mail operations by relying on UPS’s package delivery expertise. With UPS Mail Logic, businesses can simply gather their international letters, flats or packets into one parcel – no sorting by destination, metering or stamping necessary. Customers arrange for UPS pick-up along with any other small packages ready for delivery. UPS then transports the international mail to well-respected postal service entities that sort and ship the mail to the destination postal authority or other licensed party for final delivery. The launch follows a successful Mail Logic pilot programme initiated in the UK in January 2005. The success of the seven month programme, which was made available to businesses of all sizes, has prompted UPS to roll out the new service first to The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France, with additional European markets to follow.

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UK Business Post to target SMEs to help boost struggling parcel business

Posted by | Jan 27, 2006 | |

The finance director of Business Post Group PLC said it will take a year before there is a ‘significant improvement’ in the mail company’s struggling parcel business. In an interview with AFX News, Peter Fitzwilliam said the parcel business would focus on targeting small and medium-sized companies, rather than larger companies, which he said was a better use of its resources. ‘Its more efficient to have a wider spread of customers rather than a (smaller number) of bigger ones,’ he said. ‘We need to re-balance the sales mix and target SMEs. This will create operational improvements.’ Fitzwilliam was speaking after Business Post issued its second full-year profit warning in three months, saying an expected improvement in profit margins at its Parcel Services business had not materialised. It said pretax profits for the current year to March 31 would be only 9 mln stg.

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Estonia becomes part of Pan Nordic Logistics post alliance

Posted by | Jan 26, 2006 | |

Pan Nordic Logistics AB (PNL), owned by Post Denmark and Norway Post, has on 26th January signed an agreement with Estonian Post. It is a bilateral co-operation between the two companies which results in a comprehensive network reaching all households and companies in Estonia and the Nordic region.

Estonia is an expansive market with imports and exports of parcels and pallets from the entire Nordic region and especially from Sweden. The co-operation gives both companies the possibilities of developing in this potential market, as well as securing an extensive and economical service to the customers in Estonia and the Nordic region.

– Estonia Post is a well-reputed company with a comprehensive infrastructure and IT solutions which fully meet our requirements in respect of track and trace. The agreement enables us to offer our customers even better services to and from Estonia, says Benny Rhe Hansen, CEO.

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DHL sees USD1.3 trillion Asia market

Posted by | Jan 26, 2006 | |

DHL expects the Asian freight market to grow by 83 percent to UD1.3 trillion by 2020 from USD700 billion now. Asia will continue to lead the world air cargo industry in average annual growth rates, with intra-Asian air cargo markets expanding 8.5 percent per year while express volume is expected to grow twice the rate of total worldwide air cargo, Yasmin Aladad Khan, senior vice president, Southeast Asia, DHL Express Asia Pacific, told reporters at the launch of the DHL Subang Gateway in Malaysia today.

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GBP 1m up for Nightfreight QuorumValue

Posted by | Jan 26, 2006 | |

Nightfreight says that its QuorumValue product, launched in July last year, has done more than pounds 1m-worth of business from 858 customers in less than six months. The service is aimed at a mix of consignment types that might otherwise be split among customers. A typical mix might include satchels, standard parcels and packages, IDW (irregular dimension and weight) consignments and pallets. “We have set an industry standard and have a real winner on our hands,” says IDW Network sales director Chris Meadowcroft.

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