Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Spanish DHL Iberia Invests 3.82 Mln Euro in Facilities in Logrono

Posted by | Oct 5, 2004 | |

DHL Iberia, the Spanish subsidiary of German express mail delivery group DHL, a unit of German postal service operator Deutsche Post, invested 3.8 mln euro (USD4.66 mln) to build facilities in Logrono, La Rioja region, northeastern Spain, DHL Iberia said on October 5, 2004. The facilities, with a total area of 6,000 sq m, in the La Portalada II industrial park, will start operations on October 6, 2004. The facilities consist of a 3,000 sq m of transports and distribution premises, a 1,000 sq m logistics platform and offices. The new installations will allow the company to unify its air and land transports activities in the region.

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UPS to Acquire Menlo Worldwide Forwarding

Posted by | Oct 5, 2004 | |

UPS and CNF Inc. today announced UPS has agreed to acquire Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, Inc., a subsidiary of CNF, for USD150 million in cash and the assumption of approximately USD110 million in long-term debt. Menlo Worldwide Forwarding is a global freight forwarder that provides a full suite of heavy air freight forwarding services, ocean services and international trade management, including customs brokerage. It had USD1.9 billion in gross revenues in 2003. The acquisition reinforces UPS’s strategy of providing broad supply chain solutions to enable global commerce. As a result of the acquisition, UPS will expand its global capabilities and add guaranteed heavy air freight services around the world, enabling customers to reach the global marketplace faster. This also means UPS will introduce new time-definite products such as overnight, two-day and deferred heavy air freight in North America.

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Deutsche Post unit DHL to deepen tie-up with eBay

Posted by | Oct 5, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG’s unit DHL is deepening its tie-up with eBay by launching a pilot project that will allow DHL to pack, store and deliver more products auctioned on the internet.

The pilot project will start by the end of this year, the spokesman said.

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DHL Express launches field test in Deutsche Post retail outlets

Posted by | Oct 4, 2004 | |

The end of October marks the start of a field test for a new DHL Express delivery variant. The target groups are mail recipients rarely at home during the day. With DEPOTSERVICE customers will be able in the future to have their parcels sent to selected Deutsche Post retail outlets instead of to their home address. The recipients are notified via e-mail or SMS once items addressed to them have been received at the retail outlet, and they can then pick up their parcels.

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Delivering America

Posted by | Oct 4, 2004 | |

Until DHL came along, FedEx and UPS had a seemingly comfortable duopoly in package delivery. It is getting less comfortable.

The German post office is not so German anymore. Deutsche Post World Net, as it is now named, still earned most of its USD1.7 billion in profits last year delivering letters. But Chairman Klaus Zumwinkel has bought some independence from economic stagnation at home with USD18 billion worth of acquisitions, most prominently DHL International.

Now his air and ground forces have launched a U.S. invasion under the DHL banner–right into the teeth of a FedEx-UPS duopoly that holds 79percent of this market.

DHL’s USD50 billion (revenues) parent is already the world’s largest airfreight carrier, flying to more places than anyone else. Deutsche Post had a small investment in the San Francisco-based courier for years but bought the company lock, stock and delivery van two years ago. Outside of Germany it looks more like the intrepid DHL took over Deutsche Post than the other way around. Either way, what Zumwinkel wants is to rule global logistics.

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