Tag: DHL

DHL set to offer tailor-made services to retail, pharma and IT

Posted by | Sep 3, 2008 | |

DHL plans to restructure its high growth Asia-Pacific operations to provide customised solutions through an integrated structure for sectors as varied as retail, pharma and IT, as growing demand underscores business needs to avail logistics services under one roof.

DHL Global Forwarding, part of the DHL group, has realigned the Asia-Pacific region into two buckets — North Asia Pacific and South Asia Pacific — for greater customer focus.
The North Asia Pacific region covers Greater China, Japan and Korea, while the South Asia Pacific covers the South East Asia region, South Asia (including India) and the South Pacific (including Australia). Through this restructuring DHL hopes to provide better customer service, accommodate future growth and focus more on distinct regional priorities.

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FedEx Express to deliver broadest next-business-day service from Europe to the Eastern United States

Posted by | Sep 2, 2008 | |

FedEx Express has upgraded its next-business-day delivery service FedEx International Priority from Europe to major U.S. East Coast cities. Customers who had two-business-day service can now reach more than 3,500 zip codes in key markets along the U.S. East Coast overnight. Customers already enjoying next-business-day delivery service to this region benefit from later pick-up times of up to six hours.

To support the service upgrade, FedEx will launch a new westbound trans-Atlantic flight and fly a wide-body MD-11 freighter daily, Tuesday through Friday, between Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport and Newark, N.J. The Europe-to-U.S. flight segment comprises part of the FedEx westbound ‘around-the-world’ flight, which enables FedEx to provide customers with access to key markets around the world with highly competitive transit times. The company will also introduce two new Airbus A310 flights, including flights originating from Barcelona and Budapest-Vienna, to offer customers in these areas later pick-up times for enhanced next-business-day service to the U.S.

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Integrators change course as clients go for ocean transport

Posted by | Sep 1, 2008 | |

This summer, FedEx opened two new gateways on the US West Coast for traffic entering its home market from Asia by ocean vessel. The integrator’s trade networks unit created gateway offices at the ports of Seattle and Oakland for traffic that moves in consolidations to the US and after breakdown is fed into the domestic FedEx network.

The focus on waterborne traffic is indicative not only of the weakness of the US economy and the impact of high oil prices on supply chain costs and strategies, it also shows a change in strategic thinking at FedEx.

Fred Smith said that FedEx was reviewing its strategy in order to position itself better to deal with an expected change in the way how its clientele was doing business. He outlined a new situation, where reliance on aircraft for shorter hauls is diminishing further. Increasingly, customers are cutting back on premium services.

The integrators remain bullish about their international express package business, particularly in Asia. FedEx and UPS are due to open their new Asian hubs in Guangzhou and Shanghai respectively this year.

Elsewhere in Asia, UPS bought out Korea Express’s share in their joint venture to assume full control of its express business in Korea.

According to some unconfirmed reports, FedEx is about to take a giant leap to boost its strength in the market, particularly on intra-European and Asia-Europe trade lanes. The integrator is allegedly seeking to acquire TNT. Both sides declined to comment on what they described as “speculation”.

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DHL Japan showcases its flair for fashion

Posted by | Sep 1, 2008 | |

DHL will be the first logistics company to lend its support to the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo as the event’s official courier. The 7th annual Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo is being held from September 1-7 at Tokyo Midtown.

DHL Japan staff and services are being mobilized to meet the international express transport needs of the 40 designers taking part in Japan’s leading fashion event this year. In addition, DHL Japan will offer document and cargo transport services for designers participating in the event for the first time that seek to transact business with overseas buyers as well as for designers that will be showing overseas collections.

In addition to Japan Fashion Week TOKYO, DHL has forged an official partnership agreement with IMG Fashion Week under which it supports a variety of overseas fashion events in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific and other markets.

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DHL opens service centre in Budaiya (Bahrain)

Posted by | Sep 1, 2008 | |

DHL Express officially opened a new service point located on Budaiya Highway.

Situated in a predominantly residential area, the new retail outlet will offer residential and business customers convenience, accessibility and a user-friendly range of services.

This is the fourth DHL outlet in Bahrain, complementing the other service points located in Al Moayyed Tower in Seef, Umm Al Hassam and Muharraq.

Incorporating DHL’s easy-to-use international express services with simplified offers for customers, the latest outlet provides customers with service in a convenient location.

Core services on offer include DHL Express 9 and DHL Express 12 for more urgent deliveries, along with the standard end-of-day, DHL Express Worldwide.

In addition, for imports from around the world, customers can use DHL Import Express, and recently introduced, DHL Economy Select is a new option for less urgent, heavier shipments.

The new service point on Budaiya Highway is located in the retail cluster that includes Marina Trading, and operates seven days a week from 9am to 8pm.

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