Italian railway operator Trenitalia, in collaboration with DHL, the logistics and express delivery business of Germany’s Deutsche Post AG, will launch a new service called Easybag, which will allow its clients to travel comfortably without heavy luggage, it was reported on July 11, 2005. With the new service it will be possible to send the luggage separately beforehand and to take it back once the final destination is reached.
Read MoreThe international Chronopost Company inaugurated Monday July 4, 2005 a new agency in Marrakech. The inauguration of the new agency was held in the presence of local authorities and representatives of Barid Al the Maghreb, as well as the chairman and Director of Development Africa Gilles Moutel and a number of high ranking officials from Chronopost.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service Inc has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai Airport Group for the establishment of a cargo hub in Pudong International Airport. The planned cargo hub, to be put up by 2007, is part of the package-delivery firm’s USD500m expansion in China. Rivals FedEx Corp and DHL are expected to counter the UPS effort in China.
Read MoreThe opening of DHL’s Suva freight centre and headquarters in Raiwaqa last Wednesday marked its consistent growth in the Pacific market for the last five years. The relocation of its Suva headquarters has now put the company in a strong position to consolidate and add new dimension to its courier and distribution services. After being holed up in a converted residential lot for more than ten years, DHL Pacific has begun its one stop shop strategy for what it terms as a growing Pacific and Oceania courier and distribution market. The multi purpose facility at Raiwaqa is targeted by DHL to help increase freight traffic between Fiji and the Pacific. DHL Oceania director Gary Edstein said this marks an important step forward in DHL’s long-term regional growth strategy, which had been recording double digit growth for the last five years.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service is to launch its first package delivery service within China, pitting the US company against German-owned DHL in a battle for the Chinese domestic market. UPS said it would offer next-day deliveries between 23 Chinese metropolitan areas by September and planned to expand the network in future. Until now, UPS offered only international shipments in and out of China. DHL, a unit of Deutsche Post, was previously the only foreign company providing domestic package delivery. The new service represents a widening of UPS’s ambitions in China from its previous focus on imports and exports. “We intend to have the most extensive package delivery and logistics offering to, from and within China,” said David Abney, president of UPS’s international operations.
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