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DPD plans more parcel shops in Germany

Posted by | May 9, 2007 | |

DPD plans to build up a network of parcel shops across Germany to develop its currently small B2C business and take on DHL and Hermes. The move is part of a new strategy to broaden its product portfolio both in Germany and internationally.

“We have adopted a clear growth strategy,” DPD joint CEO Hans Fluri told German newspaper Die Welt in an interview. The German B2B market leader, with annual revenues of about EUR 1 billion, increased parcel volumes about 5.5% and turnover by 7% last year, the newspaper said. In the B2C market, however, DPD with 35 million shipments lags well behind DHL and Hermes (200 million parcels).

To expand its consumer parcels business, the La Poste subsidiary aims to build up its small network of DPD Shops. “Today we have about 500 DPD Shops. By the end of 2007 we want 2,500 outlets. By 2010 we are aiming for 5,000 shops,” Fluri said.

Although Hermes, with 13,000 outlets, and GLS (4,000) are much larger, DPD sees potential for a third network, he added. “Customer behaviour in terms of parcel shops is not yet fixed and will change. We are convinced that as a well-known firm we have a good chance,” Fluri stated.

Meanwhile, DPD now offers its international parcel distribution by air express to more than 220 countries through a network of cooperation partners, Die Welt reported. Prices are about 40% lower than normal air express rates, and transit times are 1-2 days longer. DPD recently enhanced its express service within Germany with new service options.

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DHL Innovation project wins RFID Journal Award 2007

Posted by | May 8, 2007 | |

The pilot project “temperature-monitored pharmaceutical logistics with RFID” conducted by the DHL Innovation Initiative was honored with the “RFID Journal Award 2007” at the congress “RFID Journal LIVE: Putting RFID to Work” (held from April 30 through May 2, 2007, in Orlando, Florida). The RFID application developed by DHL in cooperation with the innovation partners IBM and Infratab was nominated in the category “Best Use of RFID in a Service.”

Today’s pharmaceutical products generally consist of temperature-sensitive ingredients that can lose their effectiveness when they are placed in an environment that is too cold or too hot. The DHL Innovation Initiative developed an inventive solution to monitor temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products during transport. RFID sensor tags made by the development partner Infratab monitor the temperature of pharmaceutical shipments. The stored measurement data can be read by a RFID reader without physical contact using radio waves. In the process, the shipment does not have to be opened. The link to the database is handled by solutions created by IBM, one of the global innovation partners of the DHL Innovation Initiative. Thanks to the new service, pharmaceutical companies can react to temperatures that exceed or fall below limits even while the shipment is still being transported.

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DHL wins Asia’s Platinum Award for the third straight year

Posted by | May 8, 2007 | |

DHL announced it has won the highly coveted and prestigious Asia Platinum Award for the third consecutive year in the Airfreight/Courier Service category at the ninth annual ‘Trusted Brand Awards 2007’ organized by Reader’s Digest.

DHL is the first and only company to be awarded the Platinum Award for the Asia region for three consecutive years and in Hong Kong for four consecutive years, since the Airfreight/Courier Service category was introduced in 2004.

DHL improved on its strong performance in 2006, when it garnered three Platinum and five Gold awards. This year, DHL received Platinum Awards in the ‘Trusted Brand Awards’ surveys conducted in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan, as well as Gold Awards in the same surveys carried out in India, Philippines and Thailand. Singapore and Taiwan were the latest countries in which DHL received the Platinum Award.

The Platinum Award represents the highest honor conferred on a brand in the annual survey. Only brands with a rating score three times the nearest rating score of the next brand, or two times plus reaching a certain average overall quality rating receive the Platinum Award. Gold Awards are given to brands that score clearly above other brands in the category. The survey is conducted by independent research company Nielsen Media Research.

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Global Shipping & Logistics signs deal with DHL-Danzas and Master Foods

Posted by | May 8, 2007 | |

Global Shipping & Logistics (GSL), a young logistics service provider and subsidiary of Al Shirawi Group, is expecting a significant increase in its business operation following an agreement with DHL-Danzas and Master Foods.

Khalid Al Shirawi, executive director of GSL, said the company would host, manage and provide a specialised support to DHL Danzas, an innovative global freight forwarder and subsidiary of Deutsche Post World Net, the world’s leading provider of IT-supported logistics solutions covering air and ocean shipment. Al Shirawi said GSL would be in charge with the distribution of products by Master Foods, a unit responsible for sales and marketing of chocolate products by Mars Incorporated, in the UAE, other Gulf states and the entire MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.

GSL has a Dh130 million warehousing and distribution centre at Dubai Investment Park, and installed last year one of the most hi-tech cooling systems that allows customers to monitor their food consignments on the Internet. Its facility also features racking and converters to maximise cold storage space. The complex offers a total of 20,000-tonne capacity for frozen and chilled products, with temperatures ranging from -25C to +4C.

A dozen special chambers offer storage spaces ranging from 12 sea containers to 1,500 pallets of stock. Master Foods sells various chocolate brands, including Snickers, Mars and M&M’s, Abou Siouf, Galaxy and Uncle Ben’s, to some 1.4 billion consumers worldwide. It has regional offices in Dubai, Cairo and Casablanca.

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DHL launches Intracity Express service in Moscow

Posted by | May 3, 2007 | |

DHL has launched a new express delivery service called Intracity Express.

This service is for documents and parcels within the Moscow region which covers door-to-door delivery of parcels and documents within Moscow city and around 90 other locations.

Intracity Express is targeted at companies and individuals and can be used in combination with other services.
DHL plans to expand Intracity Express to other big cities across the country, as the demand for express delivery increases in Russia.

“Moscow is one of the largest and most dynamic cities in the world. Therefore we have to keep pace with the customers’needs for high-quality express-delivery services for documents and parcels,” said Mark Jordan, commercial director of DHL Russia.

Customers using the service could reduce their costs by a third through the selection of optimal delivery dates, he added.

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