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Colombia DHL Express denies rumours about Servientrega acquisition talks

Posted by | Oct 11, 2006 | |

Colombian company DHL Express, a subsidiary of global carrier and package delivery company DHL Express, part of the German postal services operator Deutsche Post, denied rumours that it is in talks for the acquisition of local logistics and courier company Servientrega.
The announcement was made by the general director of DHL Express, Antonio Arranz, on October 10, 2006. Arranz added that DHL Express might study in the future the possibility to strengthen its ties with some local delivery firm.
Servientrega’s president, Jesus Guerrero Hernandez, also said that no such talks were held.
Servientrega has its own logistics chain, spreading through Colombia, Miami (USA), Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, and also provides packaging, storage and shipment management. Servientrega plans to invest USD5.2 mln (4.15 mln euro) in order to expand in Panama, Peru and Spain.

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DHL becomes a contender

Posted by | Oct 1, 2006 | |

When considering carriers for overnight express packages, shippers may now have three legitimate options: FedEx, UPS and newcomer DHL Express. DHL commissioned a transit study this summer that demonstrates the carrier is performing as well or better than its veteran U.S. competitors.

The study tracked 14,400 overnight express shipments between 44 major U.S. cities across 480 lanes during July. The results showed UPS and DHL tied at a 90% reliability rate for 10:30 a.m. delivery, followed closely by FedEx at 88%.

“For two or three years, we’ve battled quite a degree of skepticism,” says DHL Americas CEO John Mullen. This study, he says, vindicates DHL’s efforts to break into the UPS/FedEx duopoly. “It has been a difficult road but we have come through it, and we think our customers can feel safe that they are not taking a chance on a niche player with us.”

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DHL hikes air surcharge

Posted by | Aug 30, 2006 | |

DHL Express, the third-largest express carrier in the U.S. package competition, already had an 18 percent surcharge in effect for August. Its September fuel fee will be 19 percent.

All three major overnight parcel carriers that compete in the United States have now said they were hiking their air fuel surcharges by a full percentage point in September.

The two biggest express players in the U.S. package market, UPS and FedEx Express, both said they will push their fuel surcharges for overnight air parcels to 17 percent in September, from 16 percent now.The carriers listed the new fees in Web site updates. They had each held those rates steady from July to August, after jet fuel prices stabilized some from an earlier surge.

But as oil prices rose for much of the past month, jet fuel costs rose as well, pushing the fuel price indexes for all the carriers to another trigger level.

But while they were raising their surcharges based on aviation fuel, they left their ground shipment surcharges at the same levels they used in August as the cost of diesel that fuels most of their trucks did not show the same gains as jet fuel.

FedEx and UPS left their September ground shipment fuel fees at 4.75 percent. DHL held to its 4.8 percent ground fuel surcharge.

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DHL launches Import Express Online in Venezuela

Posted by | Aug 27, 2006 | |

Jorge Lavignasse, general director of DHL Express Venezuela, states that by the end of this year his firm will have grown 20%. The group already controls an alleged 60%-plus of the local express (goods) transport market. Its new tool known as Import Express Online, a system for the control of dispatches via Internet to make the importer’s work more efficient is paying off well (it will cost around Bolivar dollars 550mil to install for the whole of Venezuela). DHL Express Venezuela, in the knowledge that the nation is a going and growing business concern, should be able to grow sales 20% this year thanks to the value-added services it is offering: not only does it transport merchandise but it helps speed up bureaucratic proceedures at customs for imports or exports it is handling.
Import Express Online is being applied worldwide and supplements other services DHL already offers such as DHL Importa (call-centre help-line) and DHL Personal Import (customer attention for those who carry out sporadic imports).

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Firms sign courier service contract

Posted by | Aug 12, 2006 | |

G4S Courier Kenya has partnered with DHL Express to provide courier services to upcountry customers.

Company managers say the new service is cheaper and easily available in all the 120 G4S outlets countrywide. G4S, formerly trading as Securicor is one of the leading security firms, while DHL is a leading international courier company.

“The DHL-G4S partnership allows customers to ship documents that weigh up to 250 gms (30 pages) and below for economical flat rates that are zonal based,” said Mr Angello Kiuma, general manager G4S Courier.

Speaking during a visit to their Malindi outlet on Thursday, Kiuma said the product would only be available at G4S upcountry offices.

“Parcels will be packaged as an envelope similar to the Africa Document, but will have a sticker reading DHL-G4S Economy Ship on it,” he said.

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