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DHL expands Time Definite Delivery service to US

Posted by | Apr 5, 2007 | |

DHL announced today the expansion of its Time Definite Delivery (TDD) service to the United States.

A suite of time-definite delivery products, DHL’s TDD portfolio comprises StartDay Express for guaranteed delivery by 9 a.m., and MidDay Express for delivery by noon. With this latest service enhancement, DHL will begin offering MidDay Express for United States-bound documents. This new service allows customers in Japan to send documents to the major business area in San Francisco, Los Angels and New York by noon of the next business day for an additional 1,500 yen on top of normal shipment charges. DHL will be providing this service for United States-bound documents for only an additional 500 yen in a promotional campaign until the end of April.

Furthermore, in addition to the current handling of India-bound documents, DHL also began offering MidDay Express for parcels on April 5, 2007, with guaranteed delivery of parcels to India by noon of the second business day for an additional 3,000 yen on top of standard charges.

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Retail progress helps domestic courier services grow in Romania

Posted by | Apr 5, 2007 | |

DHL Romania last year witnessed a 60% growth in the sector of domestic delivery services, with this sector expected to continue as one of the company’s main growth drivers in the future, says Gian Sharp country manager with DHL.

He explained that while document delivery will not experience a rise, as documents can now be sent by e-mail, express parcel shipment services would certainly witness growth.

Though internal courier services account for only around 10 percent of the company’s turnover the growth remains significant.

In 2005, DHL derived around 18 million euros from courier services alone, with the company’s representatives putting last year’s growth rate at more than 20%, which means the company’s 2006 turnover for this sector exceeded 20 million euros.

Consecutively the company posted a 21.7% increase on the sector of express imports, which was bolstered by rising online sales with Romanians now able to buy products from abroad by using the Internet. As regards the volume of express import services, the company also expects significant increases this year, but the biggest increase will be witnessed on the segment of day definite services.

According to the company’s representatives DHL is a global as well as domestic leader in the segment of express delivery services. DHL expects its domestic turnover to increase by 35-40% this year, having already witnessed growth of over 30% in the first three months of 2007 against the same period last year.

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Germany rethinks board structure after corruption scandals

Posted by | Apr 5, 2007 | |

Under German law, companies are required to give as many as half of their supervisory board seats to labor representatives. That increasingly appears to be leading to conflicts of interest and bribery in corporate Germany, because executives need a board’s support to keep their jobs and carry out strategies.

Nowhere in Europe are the ties between labor and management so close.
Germany requires any company with more than 2,000 employees to grant half its board seats to labor.

Its advocates say that the consensus-driven corporate culture helped the country emerge from the devastating effects of hyperinflation and two world wars over the last century to become a powerhouse in the global economy.
But German media are beginning to point to questionable practices between labor representatives and management at other German companies, such as Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Post.

At Deutsche Post World Net, the German postal company and operator of the DHL express delivery service, the chief executive, Klaus Zumwinkel, has also been accused of getting too cozy with labor. Good relations will be important next year when a commitment of no layoffs expires.
In one example, Deutsche Post has 530 employees who have put their normal jobs aside to act as full-time labor representatives, often with company cars and private secretaries. This is well above the legal minimum of about 400 for the company, which has more than 500,000 workers and is one of the world’s largest employers.

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Emirates Post to spend Dh1 billion on expansion drive

Posted by | Apr 4, 2007 | |

Emirates Post, which plans to spend Dh1 billion on an expansion drive within the next 18 months, has set into motion an ambitious programme to acquire 50 aircraft in five years to boost its soon-to-be-launched airfreight activities.

A spokesman of the postal company, quoting Abdullah Ebrahim Al Daboos, director-general, Emirates Post, said yesterday the first two aircraft — Airbus300, each with 44 tonne capacity — will be in operation shortly. As part of the expansion, the company will be adding one aircraft per month. In expanding its freighter division, Emirates Post, which has been pressing ahead with a diversification programme, is believed to follow the DHL, Fedex and UPS models. “The idea is not to rely on private carrier where capacity is usually unavailable because of heavy demand,” he said.

The spokesman, however, did not specify the type of the other aircraft Emirates Post would be adding to its fleet in the coming five years.

Also in the pipeline for UAE’s fast growing national postal company is an IPO proposal, which is awaiting individual sanction from all emirates. “The IPO will be finalised by the end of this month. What is yet to be decided is the IPO’s public-government ratio,” he said.

The spokesman said the air courier service is one of three new companies Emirates Post plans to introduce during 2007, the other two being a trucking company for the GCC and Middle East market and a money management and movement company. The holding group will be known as the Emirates Post Group following sanction of its IPO proposal.

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DHL Express launches customer loyalty programme in Switzerland

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

DHL Express has started what it claims to be the first customer loyalty programme in Switzerland offered by a logistics company.

The “DHL Ship & More” programme, launched at the start of April, offers a range of rewards and is available to contract customers, DHL Express Switzerland announced.

Customers can register online for the programme, and collect points for each shipment sent by DHL. One point is earned for every CHF 1 of the net shipment price, excluding customs charges and other fees.

Rewards can be earned starting from 500 points, with a range of products ranging travel vouchers to consumer electronics and other items. Points can also be donated to World Vision charity projects, DHL pointed out.

The rewards go to the company of the customer, and it is up to management to decide what to do with the item in question, DHL added.

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