Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

GLS to invest EUR 12.3m in eco-depot (GER)

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

GLS Germany announced that it will invest EUR 12 .3 million in building its first ecological depot in Vaihingen-Enz, southeast Germany.
The construction of the eco-depot started this month at the 5,000 sqm facility located in Vaihingen-Enz for which GLS signed the purchase contract in July. The company plans to go into operation by April 2009 with a warehouse capacity handling about 55,000 parcels per day. About 342 people will be employed at the new depot.
A large part of the investment will pay off in the long term not only ecologically, but also economically, the company said in a statement. The amount of EUR 1 million is invested in “Think Green” measurements including a heat pump heating system and a photovoltaic installation.
GLS planned to invest an amount of EUR 94 million in infrastructure and services with priority in Germany, Poland, Netherlands and France for 2008/2009.

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FedEx Express breaks ground on new central and Eastern Europe hub

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

FedEx Express broke ground on a new hub at the Cologne/Bonn airport, the site of the company’s new Central and Eastern European gateway.

The state-of-the-art facility will be the largest FedEx Express gateway in Germany. In addition, it will be the first solar-powered hub for FedEx outside of the U.S. and the company’s largest solar-powered hub worldwide. The hub is slated for completion in 2010 and is expected to employ 450 people in Cologne.

New ramp, freight and sort facilities with a fully-automated sort system will cover a floor space of approximately 50,000 square meters. In addition, the facility will be equipped with a 1.4-megawatt solar power system, which can generate approximately 1.3 gigawatt hours of electricity per year – equivalent to the annual consumption of 370 households. Solar panels, fitted to the roof of the new ramp and sort facilities, will cover a total surface area of 16,000 square meters.

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GLS system now provides delivery status in real-time

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

At GLS, seamless parcel tracking has been a matter of course for years. At each interface, i.e. every time a parcel reaches or leaves a depot or vehicle, the individual parcel number is recorded with a scanning device. These status reports are transmitted to the GLS IT system, where they are made available to customers – via the Internet or telephone. Up until now, however, delivery information was transmitted to the system in the evenings when the driver returned to the depot. This has now changed. As of September, parcel tracking at GLS is now possible in real-time.

Delivery data is transferred directly “on tour” from the delivery vehicle. When the parcel is handed over to the recipient, the GLS driver utilises a handheld scanner to record both the parcel number and the consignee’s signature.

GLS thoroughly – and successfully – tested the mobile data transfer service at one of its subsidiaries. Based on these results, it is now implemented comprehensively throughout the entire group.

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New DHL Express Center offers greater convenience for customers (Japan)

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

DHL inaugurated a new package drop-off centers in central Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe. The new drop-off centers will enhance convenience for customers in the central Tokyo and Kansai area, complementing DHL’s standard shipment pick-up services.

DHL established the new Express Centers in WcLock’s Shibuya, Tanimachi and Kobe branch, under a business entrustment agreement with Koyosha, Inc. (shop name; WcLock) a specialist in printing and DTP-related service, offers a wide range of services from data compilation and design to copy service, printing and binding. DHL account holders can also use these Express Centers to drop off documents and packages for DHL Express services.

The new Express Centers also offer the DHL Simple Pack service, an easy-to-use service featuring a simplified fee structure. The popular service offers dedicated envelopes and boxes, the shipment fees for which are calculated based on destination zone (Asia Pacific, America, or Europe / other regions) instead of the weight. These fixed fees are not affected by jet fuel surcharge adjustments* based on monthly fluctuations rates.

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Bangladesh: regulating private courier services

Posted by | Oct 18, 2008 | |

According to a recent media report, the interim government has ‘in principle’ approved a proposal of bringing the private courier services under legal coverage. The courier services, according to the proposal, would need registration to operate anywhere in the country. The council of advisors meeting held last week asked the law ministry for a further scrutiny of the proposed amendments to the Post Office Act that does not endorse private postal services. The draft amendments have sought to streamline the courier services being provided by the private sector widely across the country because of postal department’s often-lazy services as alleged.

Private courier service operators must follow certain rules to be specified by law and the government should have control over the fees they take from the people.

The legal framework under which the private courier services would run, when the proposed legislation comes into force, is expected to make them more responsible to enjoy the confidence of the people as a whole for such services. The charges would also be uniform following implementation of the government rules. The government should also turn its attention also to its own postal department for improvement of the services being provided through its countrywide network for the overall benefit of the people.

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