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Express firms aim for double-digit growth in South America

Posted by | Jun 1, 2007 | |

As South America’s leading economies expand in 2007, the top international express companies are laying out their strategies for healthy growth in this key emerging market.

Foreign express companies are upping their activity in South America this year, expanding their networks and product and service offerings in the belief that optimistic economic growth forecasts for the region will hold good. DHL has restructured its Latin American operations in anticipation of double-digit growth, while TNT is expecting the same following its purchase of Brazil’s Mercurio. UPS expanded its routes and increased the frequency of services between the region and the rest of the world at the beginning of this year, while FedEx is upgrading cargo-carrying capacity to the region through fleet upgrades and targeting small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in six top countries.

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Appointments – latest CEP managerial changes

Posted by | Jun 1, 2007 | |

A number of senior managerial changes have been announced by leading international express and parcel operators during May.

Jan Engels (47) has been appointed managing director marketing & sales at DHL Express Benelux as of June 1.

Ben Gordon has been named Express Logistics Operations and Implementations Manager for UAE.

Jean-Sébastien Leridon (32) has been named Commercial and Marketing director for DHL Global Mail in France. Thomas Sonnenschein (37) is the new secretary general of DHL Global Mail in France, responsible for administration and finances.

Jürgen Seifert has been named to the management board of TNT Express in Germany, with responsibility for Human Resources & General Services.

Andrew Watson has been appointed National Operations Manager in Bahrain with responsibility for country operations and the local road and air hubs.

Davide Rosetti has been named commercial director for Southern Europe, with responsibility for sales and commercial development.

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DHL prepares for 2007 hurricane season

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

DHL’s Disaster Response Team (DRT) Americas, Introduced in 2006, is Mobilized to Provide Emergency Relief Logistics Support to Communities Affected by Natural Disasters This Hurricane Season

With early predictions of an intense Atlantic hurricane season with a possible 10 hurricanes forecasted for this year by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, DHL Americas’ Disaster Response Team (DRT) has mobilized its resources and is prepared to provide emergency relief logistics support in the event of any natural disaster as needed throughout the region.

The DRT Americas is comprised of about 80 DHL employees stationed throughout the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean and stands ready to be deployed on an as-needed basis to support relief activities when called upon to almost anywhere in the Americas region.

In addition to performing their daily job functions, they have voluntarily committed themselves to being part of a global team, along with DRT units in Singapore and Dubai, that enables DHL to form a strategic partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the area of disaster management.

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Additional USD 40 million investment enhances DHL’s footprint in China

Posted by | May 29, 2007 | |

DHL announced a new dedicated flight connecting Qingdao and Hangzhou with DHL’s Central Asia Hub in Hong Kong. The move will increase the economic connectivity of the three cities and accelerate the inbound and outbound express business in Zhejiang and Shandong provinces. DHL has already started gateway operations at the Hangzhou International Airport. These latest investments by DHL totaled about USD 40 million, and are part of the planned USD110 million investment in its China business in the next few years, which DHL announced in February this year.

The new ten-time weekly flight allows DHL to better meet the increasing demand for international express and logistics services and capabilities due to the rapid economic development in these regions. The new flight, operated by a Yangtze River Express Airlines 737-300 freighter aircraft with a payload capacity of 13 tons, marks Hangzhou Airport’s first international air express cargo connection. The flight, together with DHL’s new 2,000 sqm Hangzhou Gateway, will boost the economic development in booming cities like Hangzhou, Ningbo and Qingdao, and further strengthen DHL’s market leadership in China.

Currently, DHL-Sinotrans has developed the largest air express services network in China with four international gateways – Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen – as well as eight additional direct flight gateways: Qingdao, Dalian, Chengdu, Wuhan, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Xi’an (outbound only) and Hangzhou.

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