Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Top appointment by TNT in Kuwait

Posted by | May 9, 2005 | |

Leading executive Richard Clayton has taken the reins of TNT in Kuwait.

It marks a return to the Gulf for Clayton who has served as general manager of Kuwait and Bahrain operations before.

Clayton says: ‘The key focus for this year is to further develop our core business here in Kuwait and to expand on the Middle Eastern Road Network we set up last year. This is proving to be a great success and offers considerable opportunity for further expansion.’

Clayton takes up his position in Kuwait at a particularly exciting time for the Dutch-owned integrator in the Middle East. TNT recently announced it is recording year-on-year revenue growth of more than 25 per cent in the region.

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Deutsche Post has 2 percent gain in first quarter earnings; on track for full-year target

Posted by | May 9, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post AG announced Monday that its first-quarter profit rose by 2 percent, helped by increased air and sea freight revenue, and said it was on track to meet its full-year earnings target. The Bonn-based company earned EUR 455 million (USD589 million), or 41 euro cents (52 US cents) a share, in the January-March quarter up from EUR 446 million, or 40 euro cents a share, in the same period a year ago. Revenue for the quarter was down, however, falling to EUR 10.52 billion (USD 13.62 billion) from EUR 10.57 billion a year ago. The outlook was attributed to better revenue in the company’s mail business and because of operating improvements in the US. The company said it was still working to improve its DHL unit, which is in bitter competition with FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. “This year, measures taken to ensure the continuing positive development of DHL’s US express activities are being implemented,” the company said. The unit lost EUR 133 million (USD 172.2 million) in the first quarter, but that was an improvement from the
EUR 147 million loss in the same period last year.

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UPS drivers receiving new wireless computers

Posted by | May 9, 2005 | |

UPS today announced the rollout of a new generation driver computer that can “talk” with four different wireless communication systems to speed tracking information to customers. There’s really nothing like it,” said Dave Barnes, UPS’s chief information officer. “This is a key component of a bigger system that we call Package Flow Technology. Our drivers are going to have all the information in their handheld computers to make even more reliable deliveries while driving fewer miles.”

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Daily Yamazake, AM/PM to start Yu-pack service in Tokyo in June

Posted by | May 6, 2005 | |

Japan Post announced Monday that Daily Yamazaki Co. and am/pm Japan Co. will begin handling Yu-Pack parcels at all of their Tokyo branches on June 1. The two convenience store chain operators, which already handle parcels delivered through Nippon Express Co, have accepted Yu-Pack parcels on a trial basis at a portion of their outlets since June 2004. Having determined that they could expect steady demand, both decided to enter full-fledged arrangements.

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TNT Logistics and Italian RCS Libri extend contract

Posted by | May 6, 2005 | |

TNT Logistics, a unit of Dutch mail, express and logistics company TNT NV, has renewed its contract for the outsourcing of logistics activities with Italian publisher RCS Libri for six years. Under the terms of the contract, TNT Logistics will provide RCS Libri with storage and distribution services for books, ensuring the launch of new initiatives across the country, guaranteeing the distribution of stocks to bookshops and secondary warehouses, and taking responsibility for the collection and management of returned unsold copies of general and scholastic books published by RCS Libri.

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