Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

TNT N.V. publish 2008 third quarter results

Posted by | Oct 27, 2008 | |

Express
– Operational revenue growth 5.9 pct
– Premium (air) volumes in Europe under increasing pressure in the quarter
– International Economy and Special Services products good revenue growth
– Good performance Emerging Platforms
– Operating income down 21.5 pct at constant fx
– Cost savings programmes aggressively being implemented
Mail
– Continued strong operational revenue growth Emerging Mail & Parcels
– Mail operating profit in line with outlook
Group
– Group in strong financial position, capital requirements substantially refinanced in August
– Net cash from operating activities YTD Q3 up 8.8 pct
Outlook
– Outlook Express revised downward
– Outlook Mail reaffirmed
CEO Peter Bakker comments: “As we had already highlighted in our October 16 trading update the conditions in our European Express business have significantly worsened in September and the first weeks of October. Air volumes in September were down an unprecedented 10 pct, while Road volumes were showing low growth. We expect this pressure on volumes to persist at least in the current quarter.
On the positive side the Mail business has performed in line with our outlook. Also we refinanced our capital requirements in August, ahead of the deepening of the financial crisis in September and October. This, coupled with our robust cash flow, leaves us on a solid financial footing.
In these times management focus on efficient operations is even more essential. Our Master plans in Mail continue successfully, we are aggressively implementing the announced € 125 million cost optimisation programme in Express, we focus on improving air network efficiencies and we target all other cost areas for savings as well. At our analyst meeting on 4 December 2008, we will provide further details in this respect.”

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DHL launches advertising campaign appealing export strengths

Posted by | Oct 24, 2008 | |

DHL launched an advertising campaign on 20 October that will run across newspaper and magazines through to the end of 2008. The campaign will communicate speedy delivery and increasingly sophisticated services and solutions to highlight DHL’s superiority in exporting capabilities.

This campaign focuses on three DHL services – DHL EXPRESS PALLET, DHL BREAKBULK EXPRESS, and DHL EXPRESS 9:00 / DHL EXPRESS 12:00 – and are focused on communicating the characteristics of these services as well as highlighting the service advantage DHL promises to its customers in an easily comprehensible manner.

DHL will appeal the features of the three services, along with the concept of “When hasso (the idea) changes, hasso (shipping) also changes,” in three phases via newspapers and magazines, which is a witty means to communicating in Japanese that DHL has a shipping solution for every idea / need of the business.

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UPS begins construction of intra-Asia hub in Shenzhen

Posted by | Oct 24, 2008 | |

UPS began construction of its new intra-Asia air hub at Shenzhen International Airport in the heart of China’s Pearl River Delta.

Once completed, the Shenzhen facility will replace UPS’s current intra-Asia hub located at the former Clark Air Base in the Philippines and serve as UPS’s primary transit hub in Asia. The facility is expected to open in 2010.

The repositioning of the air hub will slash at least a day off shipment times-in-transit for Asian customers while offering a new level of service to the manufacturing region located just north of Shenzhen, not far from Hong Kong.

Currently, the markets of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan account for more than half of UPS’s total intra-Asia volume. Of this, a sizeable proportion of Asia package export volume now originates in southeast China and Hong Kong.

The UPS Shenzhen Intra-Asia hub will be built on a land area of 89,000 square meters (958,000 square feet) and include a dedicated 150,000-square-meter (1.6 million square feet) ramp provided by Shenzhen Airport, an express customs handling unit, sorting facilities and cargo handling areas.

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DHL widget helps German online parcel customers

Posted by | Oct 23, 2008 | |

DHL Parcel Germany has enhanced its online services with the launch of DHL Widget enabling private and small business customers to book their online parcel shipments more comfortably and helping ebay sellers to gain a quick overview of relevant shipment details.

DHL Widget is an online programme dynamically combining all DHL online functions such as online franking, postage calculator, parcel tracking, address directory and a finder for parcel drop-off and collection points (Packstations, Paketbox), making the online preparation and tracking of parcel shipments easier for the customer.

The new programme transfers the products and addresses from the directory, chosen by the customer in the postage calculator, directly into the online franking service. As an additional service customers can allocate their shipments a memorable name such as ‘Parcel for Granny’ or ‘ eBay auction’. Plain symbols inform the customer about the status of the shipment. DHL provides the customer a proactive email service informing about the effected delivery.

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Pilots protest UPS-DHL plan

Posted by | Oct 23, 2008 | |

The Air Line Pilots Association is up in arms over DHL’s proposed service contract with UPS.
The agreement would give UPS all of DHL’s U.S. air freight business and erode competition in the air cargo market.
ALPA points to a new page on UPS’ Web site as an indication that what DHL has called a vendor contract agreement with UPS is really a poorly disguised preamble to a merger.
John Prater, President of ALPA, said, “This website reveals the true nature of this deal, which was never designed to provide better package delivery services to the North American public. Congress needs to get to the bottom of this deal, which is bad for the already struggling U.S. economy.”
ALPA contends that statements on the Web site contradict the companies’ congressional testimony that the deal is not a merger and does not violate antitrust regulation.

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