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Senators: Government should block UPS-DHL deal

Posted by | Sep 25, 2008 | |

The Justice Department should block a proposed deal between package delivery companies UPS Inc. and DHL Express because it would violate antitrust laws and eliminate thousands of jobs, a pair of Democratic senators said Thursday.

UPS would provide air transport services for DHL’s North American business for 10 years under a contract the two companies are developing, UPS said in May. Currently, two independent airlines provide the services.

The contract, expected to be completed later this year, could result in USD 1 billion of additional annual revenue for UPS. Other terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed.

But the arrangement also could lead to the closure of a DHL air freight and sorting facility in Wilmington, Ohio, and eliminate 9,000 jobs, the senators’ letter said.

The deal “will substantially diminish, if not eliminate, the competition between DHL and UPS by rendering DHL a captive of UPS rather than an independent competitor,” Sens. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said in the letter. Kohl chairs a Senate antitrust subcommittee.

Norman Black, a spokesman for UPS, said the agreement is a “straight vendor contract” and not subject to antitrust oversight.

Ohio state officials have urged DHL to find other alternatives, but a DHL executive said earlier this month the company is struggling and losing USD 5 million a day. DHL is a unit of German postal service Deutsche Post AG.

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DHL: business slowing in China

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

The rate of growth in DHL China has decreased by 15 pct the first seven months of the current year. The average growth rate a year earlier was 20 pct. “The company achieved an annual growth rate of 20-23 pct in the past five years,” reported Dan McHugh, DHL’s Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific region, in an article published in the Chinese periodical “Logistics Week.” The decline is said to be due to weakening demand in Europe and the USA for exports from China.

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DHL wins Scottish and Southern Energy contract (UK)

Posted by | Sep 23, 2008 | |

DHL Exel Supply Chain’s has won a three-year contract with Scottish and Southern Energy to manage domestic waste metal recycling. The logistics service provider will collect disused boilers, radiators and pipe work from homes in Scotland, before transporting waste items onto recycling centres.

Scottish and Southern Energy provides heating and plumbing services to thousands of homes and the contract ensures that all of that waste is responsibly recycled. As part of the recycling process, engineers will sort the metal into categories at the point of collection, meaning material is only handled once, which helps to reduce costs. Additionally, DHL Exel Supply Chain is using it’s and trace system to maximise fleet efficiencies and ensure that back-hauling is used wherever possible during the collection of waste.

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DHL Ukraine opens cargo terminal in Kiev

Posted by | Sep 23, 2008 | |

DHL Ukraine has opened a cargo terminal for exported and imported goods in Kiev mainly due to the increasing demand for transport services on the Ukrainian market, the Ukrainian News Agency reported.

The EUR 12 million terminal complex consists of a customs warehouse, a cargo handling zone, DHL Ukraine’s main office, and the Kiev Regional Customs department for administering courier services, DHL Ukraine managing director Boris Khruslov said at a press conference.

The terminal has a total area of over 8,000 sqm, including 5,000 sqm operating space with a sorting capacity of about 320,000 tons per month. Moreover, it has enough equipment to process air containers.

In addition, DHL has re-equipped its facilities in Odessa and Donetsk and intends to do the same in Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk.

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DHL Express Austria goes green

Posted by | Sep 23, 2008 | |

DHL has extended its GOGREEN range of carbon-neutral services to Austria to meet customers’ demand for a more environmentally-responsible shipping option and to compensate for the emissions generated when transporting shipments across the globe.

By the end of the financial year, customers receive a certificate about the total volume of the CO2 emissions offset during one year. The whole process is verified by the independent certification company SGS, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

DHL Express Austria has for years undertaken many measures towards environmental and climate protection. For example, it has launched an effective environment management system used for certifying among others all the 15 locations in Austria according to the environment management norm ISO 14001. In addition, the company has been continuously improving its fleet in terms of the CO2 efficiency by optimizing the planning of the routes and the network design. Furthermore, the fleet is being modernized converting 10 pct of the fleet to natural gas vehicles by 2010.

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