Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL contractor’s workers will join Teamsters

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

Workers at Great Plains Transportation Inc., an area contractor for express delivery firm DHL, voted to unionize last week. Great Plains becomes the first area company to be touched by the Teamsters’ national campaign to organize firms that contract with DHL, the giant delivery company owned by Deutsche Post. Another election is scheduled on May 20 at Mid-Continent Transport, a DHL contractor in St. Joseph. The Teamsters have said more than 1,300 workers at DHL contractor firms around the country have voted to join the union.

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UPS to expand air freight network

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

As part of its expansion in the air freight business, UPS today announced plans to construct five regional freight hubs at airports across the country.
The regional facilities, when completed and brought on line next year, will support a main freight hub to be constructed in Louisville, Ky., home to the company’s main all-points air hub. The six facilities will form the backbone of an expansive air network for the movement of heavy freight for customers of UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The new facilities will be constructed in Ontario, Calif.; Rockford, Ill.; Dallas; Philadelphia, and Columbia, S.C. Those airports already serve as regional hubs for UPS’s separate small package network, meaning UPS jets are routinely flying in and out every day.

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UPS Board Sets Dividend

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

The Board of Directors of UPS today declared a regular quarterly dividend of 33-cents per share on all outstanding Class A and Class B shares. The dividend is payable June 1, 2005, to shareholders of record on May 16, 2005.

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Brazil: DHL invests USD 20 million to expand

Posted by | May 9, 2005 | |

With the aim of two-folding the size of the Brazilian operations in a short-term DHL Express wants to expand the participation of big companies in its client portfolio. The company intends to have 80% of its income with the big companies. The remainder 20% would come from the small and middle sized companies. Presently 40% of the income comes from the big companies and 60% from the small and middle sized. Of the US$20mil to be invested in Brazil this year half is being injected in automation and IT.

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