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DHL gives Transmile chance to rebuild reputation

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL is maintaining its business relationship with loss-making Transmile Group Bhd, which was hit by massive accounting irregularities, and wants to give it a chance to turn around and rebuild its reputation.

DHL Asia Pacific chief executive officer Daniel McHugh said the leading courier services provider still has a “good, open relationship” with Transmile, and was in talks weekly on the challenges both companies faced. “Discussions go on every week with Transmile on how we operate our network, and how they operate their network.”

McHugh said DHL had a long-term business relationship with Transmile and it was willing to give the latter a second chance to rebuild its reputation, as it had done so with US-based Northwest Airlines.

Transmile plunged into the red and it had to restate its financial accounts after massive accounting irregularities were revealed this year.

Transmile provides express air cargo service to DHL, its single largest customer. It has said that DHL is expected to contribute almost half of its revenue from July 2007 to June 2008.

McHugh added Transmile was a component of DHL’s global aviation strategy by operating in multiple sectors in Asia. For instance, it undertook short haul flights, including the Bangkok-Singapore, Singapore-Jakarta and Beijing-Hong Kong routes.

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DHL USA restarts

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL’s losses in the United States appear to be deepening and the express carrier is looking closely at the entire operation even as it struggles with its major North American air service provider, ABX Air.

DHL and ABX Air agreed to binding arbitration last month to settle a financial dispute between the two operators, a dispute that bared the enmity between the businesses and the direction of their operations.

But DHL is concerned with larger issues, including a sharp decline in its air express business in North America over the last year that helped drag down overall profits at parent Deutsche Post World Net in the third quarter. DPWN Chairman Klaus Zumwinkle told analysts in Germany last month the company must look at how to “restart the whole thing” next year, but he rejected any idea that DHL would scale back in the face of problems in the United States.

The company last month reported a 4.6 percent drop in express revenue in the Americas in the first nine months of 2007, including a 6.6 percent decline in the third quarter. The U.S. air express market generally has been in decline in recent years, and volume for key competitors FedEx and UPS in that area has been flat.

In the meantime, DHL is trying to work out its problems with ABX. Their rift deepened in recent months when ABX added new aircraft for its charter and leasing business outside the DHL contract, and ABX then rejected a takeover overture from DHL’s other sub-service air operator, ASTAR Air Cargo.

ABX this fall bought another freighter airline, Cargo Holdings International, boosting its non-DHL business and along the way making ABX a tougher takeover target.

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DHL prepares for holiday season peak on

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL enters the peak day of December 17 – known to those in red and yellow DHL uniforms as “Super Monday” – with 10,000 team members strong at its primary U.S. hub as well as tens of thousands of others across the country to efficiently move packages through the DHL network. Overall, DHL expects to move over 14.5 million packages across the globe on Super Monday.

DHL expects a 50 percent increase over its average daily volume during the first three quarters of this year, as it will deliver approximately 2.5 million packages and pick up 2.3 million packages across the United States.

DHL has taken the following steps to manage shipments during the peak of this 2007 holiday season:
• DHL has added more than 440 daily truck routes to its regular network schedule, a 25 percent increase over its average daily ground linehaul capacity.
• Nearly 10,000 staff members, including hundreds of seasonal and temporary workers, are working around the clock at DHL’s principal air and ground hub in Wilmington, OH, to ensure customer packages reach their destinations in time for the holidays.
• The workforce has also increased at DHL’s 18 other U.S. regional sort centers by 50 percent.
• The average daily volume for DHL@home, DHL’s business-to-consumer service in partnership with the U.S. Postal Service, will more than double during the month of December, driven by online retailers, catalog companies and other business-to-consumer shipments.
• During the month of December, DHL expects to double the volume of packages handled through DHL drop boxes and its nationwide retail network of DHL Authorized Shipping Centers®, including OfficeMax® locations and independent mail and parcel centers.
• During the month of December, DHL projects a 10 percent increase in customer shipments processed online and a 30 percent increase in online tracking requests over last season.

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DHL, UNICEF, Sanofi and HPIC team up to deliver life-saving vaccines to children of Uzbekistan

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

On Monday 10 December, 2007, the last shipment of more than 750,000 life-saving vaccines was loaded on an airplane bound for Uzbekistan, in the final chapter of an extraordinary humanitarian effort in Canada spearheaded by UNICEF, sanofi-aventis Group, one of the country’s leading medical aid agencies, and the logistics division of DHL to provide badly needed medicines to the children of Uzbekistan.

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis, donated the single doses of vaccine to Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC), a Canadian medical aid agency dedicated to improving access to healthcare and medicine in the developing world. HPIC is providing the vaccines to UNICEF, the world’s leading children’s humanitarian agency, for use this winter in a vaccination program for the children of Uzbekistan.

DHL discounted the transportation cost of 26 temperature controlled containers

The vaccine will be used to immunize children under the age of two against pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, tetanus and polio. Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health covered all in-field transportation costs and supplied sufficient quantities of syringes and safety boxes. DHL, a long time corporate partner of UNICEF, discounted the transportation cost of 26 temperature controlled containers, and leveraged its unmatched global network and delivery expertise to manage the movements of the precious cargo.

Jeremy Shrubbs, Director Business Development, Lifescience, DHL Global Forwarding, Canada, said: “Because the vaccines had to remain in a range between +2°C to +8°C at all times, this shipment was especially challenging. As a result, we engaged LifeConEx, a joint venture with DHL Global Forwarding and Lufthansa Cargo, to ensure the vaccines were safeguarded and maintained complete integrity at each step of the journey.”

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DHL and Fujitsu commended for efforts in Green Logistics

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL was commended today – along with Fujitsu Ltd – by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry for its DHL Exel Supply Chain business unit (trading in Japan under then name DHL Supply Chain Ltd) reducing CO2 emissions by 20 pct, or just over 300 tons per annum.

The Green Logistics Partnership Promotion Project seeks to reduce CO2 emissions by enhancing partnerships between shippers and logistics suppliers. Under the 2006 Green Logistics Partnership Project business model, DHL and Fujitsu have successfully reduced CO2 emissions by utilizing concentrated vehicle allocation control, consistently from point of sourcing to product delivery.

Three criteria were the basis for receiving the award: the shipper and logistics provider working together throughout the supply chain process in order to streamline the logistics operation; structuring the advanced tool for automatically calculating CO2 amount emitted based on the data both of actual measuring by in-vehicle terminal and of transportation detail; and. implementation of multiple measures to streamline logistics process, introducing site consolidation and electronic data processing.

DHL has a logistics outsourcing agreement with Fujitsu to fulfill most of its logistics needs in Japan, including the delivery operations cited above, truck trunking, rail transport network, warehouse management, packaging material design, reverse logistics services, service parts delivery, heavy machinery installation and the recycling of information technology devices.

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