Tag: DHL

Mergers and acquisitions on domestic delivery market (Romania)

Posted by | Aug 13, 2008 | |

The beginning of this year brought an avalanche of mergers and acquisitions on the domestic delivery market in Romania. Founders of Cargus sold the company to the international player DHL, Pegasus was taken over by GeoPost and Yurtici Cargo company Trans Courier Service was bought by UPS, whereas TCE Logistics and Curiero merged.

Fan Courier is the only delivery company of the top three which did not announce its selling intention.

For this year, Fan Courier plans to make investments worth 20 million euros. “We’ve conceived ever since last year a pretty bold investments plan. We will construct a new headquarters that will endorse our growth. The land alone cost us 2.5 million euros and the investments in the building alone will reach about 8.5 million euros. To them adds the transporting strip that will cost other 4 million euros. Then there will be the equipment of all our couriers with PDAs (personal digital assistant), which entails other 2 million euros. However, when we will finalize the investments, our company might really compete from a technical and quality viewpoint with any company from Romania and from abroad,” say the owners of the company.

Related to a prospective sell of the company, there have been many offers but none went beyond the principle stage.

The first quarter of the year, the company reported a turnover worth 9.8 million euros, over the same period of the previous year.

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DHL wins GBP 3.6 million British Home Stores contract (UK)

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

DHL Exel Supply Chain announced a new GBP 3.6 million (4.5 million euro) contract over three years to provide logistics e-fulfilment warehousing services for Bhs throughout the UK. This contract is an addition to DHL’s existing business with the major high street retailer and will involve handling over 150,000 customer orders each year.

DHL is to deliver a range of services to Bhs including: processing customer orders; processing customer returns; value added services and customer helpdesk services. The company will handle a variety of products for Bhs including clothing, gifts, home and lighting products

This additional contract was awarded to DHL after a competitive tender process. DHL’s capability will support growth of the online ordering business, reduce operating costs and improve service levels.

Bhs currently also uses DHL Global Forwarding for outbound freight logistics services and DHL Express for 24 and 48 hour parcel delivery services.

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Appel states DHL has to shut down Ohio facility

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post World Net CEO Frank Appel has rejected growing US political criticism of DHL’s plans to close its air hub at Wilmington, Ohio, with the likely loss of some 8,000 jobs, and to switch airlift operations to rival UPS.
The plans have drawn criticism from US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, the region’s members of Congress and local politicians. The US Congress plans two hearings on the proposed DHL-UPS deal in September.
DHL Express had to shut the hub as part of its restructuring programme in order to reduce its heavy US losses, Appel told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview, echoing his similar comments at the company’s recent half-year financial press conference.
The DPWN chief again stressed that UPS would remain a competitor to DHL despite supplying a service, and pointed out that a similar deal between the USPS and FedEx had been approved, despite being much larger in volume.
Appel added that the company was ready to set up a support programme for affected employees and the region to help people find new jobs, but he had no plans to travel to the USA, as Republican candidate John McCain had proposed.

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UPS spends USD 1.3M lobbying

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

UPS Inc. spent more than USD1.3 million in the second quarter to lobby on issues including its plan to carry air packages in North America for DHL, according to a recent disclosure form.

The Atlanta-based company also lobbied on the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, appropriations for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, as well as legislation dealing with patent reform, data security and health care policy.

UPS also lobbied on aviation safety issues and technology, as well as UPS’ “proposed airlift agreement with DHL,” according to the form posted online July 16 by the House clerk’s office.

The second quarter runs from April through June. On May 28, UPS announced it was seeking to work out a contract with DHL that would involve UPS providing the air transport of DHL packages between airports in North America, but not the pickup or delivery of DHL packages to customers.

UPS asserts the federal government does not have authority over the vendor relationship.

Besides Congress, UPS lobbied the departments of Transportation, Homeland Security, labor and other agencies in the April through June period.

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DHL Express Singapore Renames Product Portfolio to Reflect Time Specific Services

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

DHL announced that it has completed an across-the-board portfolio renaming of its best-in-class products in Singapore. The renaming exercise is part of the global alignment of product portfolio which began in more than 220 countries and territories serviced by DHL’s global network in January 2008, and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Its completion has enabled DHL Express Singapore to harmonize a variety of product names to a single set of standard, logical and easy-to-understand names that aids recall and helps customers to select the products that best meet their express shipping needs.

The new names reflect the time specific nature of shipments to their destinations. By offering products based on a logical system of time-definite and day-definite choices, customers can now choose product services that offer flexibility and reliability based on speed, destinations and weights.

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