Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

FedEx plans trade mission to India

Posted by | Oct 30, 2008 | |

FedEx Corp. is collaborating with the Commerce Department’s U.S. Commercial Service on a trade mission to India in November 2008 for U.S.-based businesses interested in expanding into the Indian marketplace. FedEx is the first private-sector company to lead a trade mission to India in conjunction with the Commercial Service.

With visits scheduled to New Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai from Nov. 9-14, 2008, the trade mission will enable U.S. businesses to better understand trade opportunities across key economic hubs in the country. In addition, it will help Indian companies looking to pursue new buying opportunities with American businesses.

The companies participating in the trade mission represent small and medium-sized businesses and sectors in manufacturing, transportation equipment, engineering, business services, consulting, architecture, information technologies, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and more.

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China’s postal plan worries foreign courier companies

Posted by | Oct 30, 2008 | |

Foreign express-delivery companies operating in China including DHL, FedEx, TNT and UPS are fighting new legislation they say will undermine their ability to compete in the market for delivering documents and packages domestically. A new provision in the draft version of China’s Postal Law forbids foreign companies from investing in the domestic letter delivery business. Foreign delivery firms, most of which have been operating in China through joint ventures or other local operations, fear that the provision will make it harder to compete with China Post, the country’s state-owned postal service. China’s legislature says it will accept comments on the law until November 30. Total revenue in China’s postal system was USS 12.7 billion last year, with express delivery accounting for more than a third of the total.

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FedEx Ground selects site for New Portland area distribution hub

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

FedEx Ground has chosen a 77-acre site in Troutdale to build a distribution hub that will be double the size of the existing operation in Portland, Oregon. A formal ground breaking ceremony took place on October 29.
The 415,000 square-foot facility will be built in the new Troutdale Reynolds Industrial Park and will cost about USD 100 million including land, construction and material-handling equipment. Scheduled to open in 2010, the hub will feature the latest automated material handling technology designed to initially process 25,000 packages per hour and eventually 45,000 packages per hour when it reaches full capacity after a projected expansion. The workforce at opening is projected to include more than 500 full-time and part-time employees and about 200 independent contractor opportunities, many of which will transfer from the current facility.

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New TNT Express depots in Germany and Italy

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

TNT Express has laid the foundation stone for a new logistics centre at Rostock airport in northern Germany, investing EUR 3.7 million in the new depot. In addition, the company opened two new branches in Italy this month.

In spring 2009, the current depot in Guestrow, which is 17 km away from Rostock, will be moved to the new site, which lies on a 12,000 sqm plot of land. Some 40 employees will work at the new facility.

Separately, TNT Express Italy has opened two new branches. The new depot at Verona, northern Italy, where about 200 staff are employed, is located in an industrial area close to the nearby motorway and benefits from the latest security facilities. The site is used for local distribution during the day and as a sorting hub for nationwide shipments during the night. TNT also opened a new branch at the coastal port of La Spezia following an investment of some EUR 400,000.

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UAL to offer FedEx bag service

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

United Airlines (UAL) plans to launch a next-day luggage service designed to raise fresh revenue while giving passengers a more reliable way to ship stuff without schlepping it through an airport.
The UAL is teaming with FedEx Corp. The two will offer in the continental U.S. door-to-door, overnight delivery of suitcases, golf clubs and other items the airline normally would transport in the bellies of its jetliners.
FedEx will move the goods — while United handles customer service — for USD 149 one-way for a suitcase or other item of up to 50 pounds carried less than 1,000 miles. It’ll cost USD179 for the same piece transported more than 1,000 miles. Delivery by 4:30 p.m. the next day is guaranteed.
FedEx confirmed it is United’s vendor but declined to elaborate. FedEx already moves items by ground and air for individual travelers who arrange their own transportation and, along with its rivals, works with a growing number of luggage services that have sprung up to help customers bypass airline baggage channels.

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