Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

TNT launches ultimate supply chain solution launched at Liege

Posted by | Aug 30, 2005 | |

TNT Express is introducing a new service proposition for Europe – the Value Added Service Centre (VASC). The VASC, based at TNT’s European Air Hub in Liège, Belgium, has been specifically designed to meet customer demands in the fast-changing global distribution industry. The VASC service offerings include a range of market leading services such as spare parts and emergency stock replenishment, with the VASC team ensuring that the shipments can instantly and at any moment be injected into TNT’s air or road networks.

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UPS among first to deploy new customs security technology

Posted by | Aug 29, 2005 | |

UPS today announced it has become one of the first transportation carriers to deploy a trade processing system developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that accelerates cross-border commerce while improving security at the nation’s borders. The Automated Commercial Environment, or ACE, is part of a multi-year modernization effort by the CBP that automates the flow of information about packages approaching U.S. borders in trucks, making it easier for customs agents to decide what they wish to inspect. UPS worked with CBP to pilot the program in Blaine, Wash., the first land port to transition to the new system.

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Japan Post to deliver packages to cellphone-operated lockers

Posted by | Aug 26, 2005 | |

Japan Post said Friday it will improve its package delivery service by allowing people to use cellphone-operated lockers at railway stations to receive parcels, beginning in September. The new service for Yu-Pack parcel delivery costs no additional money and will initially be available at lockers in 55 locations, mainly railway stations and shopping centers in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture. The service will be offered in collaboration with X-Cube Corp., an operator of coin-operated lockers that use cellphones as keys. Japan Post said it will initially target users of mail-order services and young people who tend to be away from home so that they can easily pick up packages while commuting.

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Hogan quits as DHL boss

Posted by | Aug 25, 2005 | |

Mystery surrounds the departure of DHL’s UK MD John Hogan, who has been replaced by Chris Muntwyler, a Swiss national who was running the Central Europe region. The company, turning over (pounds sterling)1.4bn in the UK, says Hogan has left “to pursue other interests” and declined to elaborate, although a spokesman says he would be surprised if Hogan did not “pop up again” soon in the industry. Industry insiders say that Hogan has fallen on his sword, or been pushed onto it, because profit margins are well below expectation in what is a major market for DHL. It is also suggested that Hogan struggled to adjust to the matrix management philosophy, and the influence of the head office in Germany.

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Hong Kong-Shanghai: DHL stays competitive by increasing capacity 35%

Posted by | Aug 25, 2005 | |

DHL said Wednesday that it has upgraded its uplift capacity on the Hong Kong-Shanghai sector by 35 percent in response to the tremendous growth in demand express services in Asia. According to Jerry Hsu, president for Greater China and Korea at DHL Express, the five times weekly Hong Kong-Shanghai service, previously operated by a Dragonair A300B4, has been replaced by a Cathay Pacific-operated service with an Air Hong Kong Airbus A300-600GF. The Freighter, with a capacity of 47 tonnes, represents an increase in payload capacity of almost 35 percent, from 35 tonnes previously, he said. He added that DHL last upgraded the payload capacity on this route in June 2004, 12 months after the service was first launched, in response to increasing demand and surging intra-Asia shipment volumes.

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