Tag: DHL

DHL Malaysia Launches Promotion to Beat Year-end Rush

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

DHL has launched the Beat the Rush promotion for international shipments to help customers beat the year-end holiday season rush.

The promotion offers include half-day advantage for inbound shipments, flexible pick-up times, daily uplifts to ensure timely delivery, zero hidden costs and 24-hour customer service.

“In addition, DHL has added daily flights out of Johor Baharu and from its Central Asia Hub in Hong Kong and adding 20 tons of additional capacity to each flight,” country manager for Malaysia and Brunei Sam Leong said on a statement today.

The decision to extend the daily flights to Johor Baharu was due to capacity constraints on the Hong Kong-Singapore flights, he added.

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ProLogis leases more space to DHL in the Czech Republic

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

ProLogis has leased 424,000 square feet (39,400 square metres) of industrial space in the Czech Republic to DHL Logistics.

Under the new deal between the two parties, DHL has leased 100 pct of the space in a recently-completed building at ProLogis Park Prague-Jirny, a master-planned industrial park located approximately 20 kilometres east of Prague, along the D11 motorway. DHL now leases more than 1m square feet at the park; earlier this year the company signed new agreements for two other recently-completed buildings at the park comprising 642,000 square feet (59,700 square metres).

ProLogis Park Prague-Jirny consists of six buildings totalling more than 2m square feet (192,200 square metres) of modern warehouse and office space. In addition to DHL, GLOBUS, a German retailer and hypermarket chain owner, leases 323,000 square feet (30,000 square metres) at the park.

As of September 30, 2007, ProLogis’ platform in Central and Eastern Europe totalled more than 29m square feet (2.7m square metres) of industrial space owned, managed or under development, in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

DHL currently leases more than 2.65m square feet (246,300 square metres) from ProLogis in Central and Eastern Europe.

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DHL Germany delivers Sunday service before Christmas

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

DHL will provide a special service to its customers on the fourth Sunday in Advent: DHL will deliver packages like its a regular working day to ensure that all gifts will reach recipients in time for Christmas. Christmas Eve at DHL will be a regular delivery day for DHL for packages, parcels and letters as is the case every year. Customers who are not at home at the time of delivery on Christmas Eve do still have the opportunity to pick up their parcel on the same day until late evening at the nearest DHL station.

“This additional service on a Sunday again demonstrates DHL’s strong commitment towards customer driven services. Beneficiaries of this special offer are business customers as well as private consumers. Only DHL can provide this seamless service due to the engagement of our employees and our unparalleled distribution network in Germany,” says Uwe Brinks, Managing Director DHL Parcel Germany.

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UPS sees fast-growing Asia unaffected by softer U.S.

Posted by | Nov 29, 2007 | |

Packaging delivery company United Parcel Service Inc expects regional growth in Asia will remain robust and be unaffected by a slowing U.S. economy, a senior company official said on Thursday.

UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, has said growth this peak season would be below the previous four years, reflecting slowing U.S. economic growth, the housing sector slowdown and expectations of low retail sales growth.

But rising trade within the Asia-Pacific region was boosting demand for freight and logistics services in countries including China, India, Vietnam and Thailand, said Ken Torok, president of Asia-Pacific region for UPS.

“Asia-Pacific is our fastest growing region, as the momentum in the services sector and infrastructure development continues,” he said at a conference to launch a strategic alliance with local logistics firm AFL Pvt Ltd.

“And in the region, intra-Asia trade is the fastest growing and leading segment,” he said.

The UPS annual Asia Business Monitor for 2007 showed intra-Asia trade accounted for the most volume growth from small and medium enterprises. Also, trade with the Middle East overtook Europe and the United States for Asian firms.

“Growth within the region is so strong, that what happens in the U.S. market will not have as big an impact on Asia as it did some years ago,” Torok said.

For UPS, business in Asia grew by more than 20 percent in the third quarter, while China and India grew by more than 25 percent, Torok said.

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Fuel cost ups shipping bill (U.S.)

Posted by | Nov 29, 2007 | |

Carriers once again are responding to higher oil and gasoline prices by passing along the costs. Rather than raise base rates, they impose fuel surcharges.

– DHL raises the Air Express and International surcharge from 18.5 percent of the total shipping bill, to 19.5 percent. The surcharge for Ground Delivery service rises from 5 percent to 5.3 percent.

-UPS raises the Ground Delivery fuel surcharge from 5 percent to 5.25 percent. The surcharge for air and international deliveries goes from 16.50 percent to 17.50 percent.

FedEx fuel surcharges go up the same as UPS, for the same categories.

In catalogs and on Web sites, most of the tables on shipping costs don’t include a fuel surcharge.

The U.S. Postal Service, whose rates are governed by a federal commission, can’t impose fuel surcharges.

That doesn’t stop the postal service from taking other steps to realign pricing with the actual costs of processing the mail. First class stamp rates rose from 39 to 41 cents in May, Since then, the postal service also takes more consideration of the size and shape of a piece of mail, when calculating prices.

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