Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

TNT eyes new mail, express partnerships with China

Posted by | Sep 15, 2005 | |

TNT NV said it hopes to expand its express parcel services with China Post and develop a new partnership in its mail division to service a planned national direct marketing operation. TNT chief executive officer Peter Bakker told XFN-Asia that he believes that express or parcel freight operations have the greatest growth potential in China for the Dutch company, which provides logistics, express and mail services. ‘The biggest opportunity will be in express operations, the parcel freight operations,’ he said in an interview, predicting it will eventually overtake the firm’s current business leader — logistics – in importance. TNT’s express service in China was a stand-out performer in the group’s interim results for the second quarter 2005, growing at over 27 pct compared to 12.8 pct recorded for express services across the rest of the world excluding Europe. Bakker said that until now the company has not had its own international parcel service for China.

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Czech parcel traffic grows by 14 pct yearly

Posted by | Sep 14, 2005 | |

Parcel traffic in the Czech Republic grows by some 14 percent a year as companies delivering parcels handle about 150,000 units a day, CTK learnt in a poll of the companies today. Annual sales from this activity reach an estimated Kc4-5 billion a year. DPD chief executive Daniel Mares said parcel traffic among companies prevailed as some 60 percent of Czech companies have parcels delivered. Abroad, the rate is about 90 percent.

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UPS parcel carried faces pilots’ strike

Posted by | Sep 14, 2005 | |

After an almost three-year dispute with the world’s largest package delivery company, United Parcel Service, its pilots have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. UPS has 2,459 pilots, of whom almost 97 percent are eligible to vote and agreed to authorize the Independent Pilots Association to call a strike. Despite the vote, the pilots are prohibited from striking unless the union is released from US federally supervised mediation. The president of the pilots’ union, Tom Nicholson, said he would delay in requesting a release from mediation because of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the role UPS pilots may could be called on to play in relief efforts. Nicholson said in an interview. “Will we ask for release? Without a contract, yes. When will that happen? I don’t know.” UPS last week said it had anticipated the vote, but that the threatened strike would have no impact on its business. UPS says its pilots are among the best paid in the industry, and it called for mediation to continue.

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Kenya to host DHL’s new cargo division

Posted by | Sep 13, 2005 | |

Courier giant DHL Worldwide has established a new division that will cater for cargo. DHL Danzas Air and Ocean will operate in Equatorial Africa with Kenya as its regional base. The freight services will operate separately from DHL Express, the courier wing of the company. “Some things will change but for the better,” says John Cockayne, Danzas area general manager. “With the new development, our customers will now benefit from a better choice of products and services.” Kenya was picked as the base for the region that covers Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Zambia and Angola. Other countries that are also covered in the circuit include, Mauritius, Gabon, Reunion, Madagascar and the Congo. According to Mr Cockayne, Danzas will offer freight cargo services for air and sea and operate in 66 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where DHL Express has a presence.

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Drop-box solutions are gaining ground

Posted by | Sep 12, 2005 | |

An unattended delivery system for which Business Post now has the UK licence, called eBox, is on trial with several hundred customers.
Three sizes of eBox are available, taking deliveries or outbound shipments of up to 20kg. Business Post claims this makes the system suitable for the B2B sector as well as its HomeServe customers, such as service engineers and party planners. The company hopes by this means to reduce the problem of failed deliveries.

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