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DHL Sweden company cars to be eco-friendly

Posted by | Aug 28, 2008 | |

DHL Sweden will invest in a fleet of company cars consisting entirely of environmentally friendly vehicles. The current fleet consists of 439 vehicles, of which 44 percent already run on alternative fuels. This is the start of a long line of environmental projects as part of GOGREEN, DHL’s global environmental program.

The intention is that by 2020 at the latest, DHL will have reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent in comparison to 2007 levels.

Currently DHL in Sweden has a total of 439 company cars, of which 193, or approximately 44 percent, are clean cars. Common environmentally friendly models within the DHL company car fleet are the SAAB 9-3 BioPower, the SAAB 9-5 BioPower and the Volvo V70 Flexifuel.

DHL is to use the Vägverket (Swedish National Road Administration) list of environmentally friendly vehicles, and from now on all company cars that are leased out to employees must be environmentally friendly. Within three years at the very latest, current non-environmentally friendly company cars should also have been replaced with alternatives that meet stricter environmental requirements.

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TNT Post increase presence in the North-West of England

Posted by | Aug 28, 2008 | |

TNT Post announced the investment of a further GBP 1m in the north-west of England.

Whilst a revamp of sorting operations by Royal Mail in the north-west threaten to spark industrial action by postal workers, TNT Post is preparing to increase its presence in the area with a further 50 vehicles before the end of this year. TNT Post is expected to handle twice as much mail this year as last, and pressure on Royal Mail to retain and win back business has never been higher. With its monopoly status already eroded by an EU-driven plan to break the back of state-owned postal services, Royal Mail urgently needs to simplify and restructure sorting. Its immediate plans are to set up a central hub in Warrington which could see sorting centres in Liverpool, Crewe, and other locations in the area, shut for good.

TNT hopes to increase revenue in the area by GBP 33m and is already trialling postal deliveries on foot in Liverpool, reason perhaps why Royal Mail is concentrating its efforts on steamlining its operations in the north-west. Royal Mail said that changes to its distribution network were on an ongoing basis and were being phased according to need and not based on a grand master plan to strip out mail centres universally.

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DHL moves into packaging compliance

Posted by | Aug 26, 2008 | |

DHL Exel Supply Chain has launched its own packaging compliance scheme. This system complements its packaging waste data services, which allow customers to calculate their annual packaging weight obligation.

Head of environmental and compliance solutions Sean Hodges said that the service was added because of customer demand. This will be the second compliance scheme that DHL has launched – it already operates a Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance scheme.

Hodges said that people were sceptical at first when DHL moved into WEEE. He said the firm operated a WEEE scheme because the company was initially led by legislation, has “a lot of logistical services” and carries a lot of “electrical goods around the country to recyclers”.

He hopes that the “success” that DHL has had in meeting the obligations of members of its WEEE scheme will be replicated through the new packaging compliance scheme.

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Hermes Logistik introduces diesel surcharge

Posted by | Aug 26, 2008 | |

Hermes Logistik has introduced a diesel surcharge in response to the sharp rise in fuel costs in recent months.

As of August 18, the company is imposing a surcharge of EUR 0.20 for all domestic parcels and of EUR 0.40 for all parcels sent to European destinations. The surcharge is shown separately on all invoices.

Hermes said in a notice on its website that it had decided to follow competitors by introducing a surcharge since it could no longer absorb the higher fuel costs despite “many savings measures and the use of modern vehicles”.

German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that with the surcharge Hermes was now more expensive that DHL for consumer parcels. The cheapest Hermes parcel, including the surcharge, now costs EUR 4.10 while DHL charges EUR 3.90. A DHL spokesman told the newspaper that the German parcel market leader has no plans to introduce a diesel surcharge.

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Sony outsources all logistics to DHL (AUS)

Posted by | Aug 26, 2008 | |

Sony Australia will outsource the company’s logistics operation to a third party supplier, DHL Exel Supply Chain. The partnership with DHL follows a review prompted by the expiry of the lease of its warehouse facility at Chullora, NSW. The new arrangement will be effective from 19 February 2009.

Carl Rose, Managing Director of Sony Australia, said: “The alliance with DHL will provide Sony with greater flexibility in managing fluctuations in the demand for warehousing. As a business, it allows us to adapt to the needs of our retail partners across the country and reflect the seasonality of the consumer electronics market, variance in product sizes and weights, market conditions and import trends.

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