Management of Seur, the Spanish urgent delivery group, has reached an agreement with Geopost, logistics subsidiary of French post office La Poste, in order to prevent investment groups Bridgepoint and JP Morgan Partners from entering its shareholding.
Read MoreUPS Supply Chain Solutions have announced a new service that helps companies properly manage the disposition of used and obsolete electronic goods and components.
Through its new Asset Recovery and Recycling Management service, UPS Supply Chain Solutions oversees the final disposition of these electronics through repair, recycling or disposal in an environmentally safe manner, all while controlling logistics-related activities. The new service tackles the growing problem of how to manage used and obsolete electronic goods, such as computers, cell phones, printers as well as their electronic components.
Read MoreThe Asahi Shimbun In a bid to keep pace with Western private-sector rivals such as DHL and FedEx, Japan Post on Monday will launch a faster express mail service to Shanghai from selected post offices in Tokyo and Osaka.
Read MoreFedEx chairman and CEO Frederick W. Smith told European business leaders Thursday that FedEx welcomes competition from foreign air cargo carriers, but he questioned the benefit to postal customers when their postal monopolies invest in such ventures.
Read MoreFDX Ground Facility Tour. On Thursday, we toured FedEx Ground’s 500,000 square foot Woodbridge, NJ facility, its third largest hub by volume, processing over 30,000 packages per hour. In the next eighteen months, management estimates that its New Jersey hub will grow to be the largest Ground facility by volume, eclipsing its hub in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Note from Barry Hansen: note that FDX Ground has won the LL Bean home delivery contract. Bean is the largest cataloge operator in the U.S. These are the types that the Donnelley Logisitics operation should win.
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