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DHL (USA) completes hub automation at Riverside facility

Posted by | Mar 19, 2007 | |

DHL has completed the automation of its West Coast Distribution Facility in Riverside, Calif. The auto sort system upgrades now in place will allow DHL to increase letter-and-package throughput and provide customers with greater track-and-trace capabilities.

Key customer benefits of the automation effort include greater letter-and-package visibility through the auto sort system’s track-and-trace features as well as increased speed in the handling and processing of shipments. With the transition to auto sort functions, package throughput will increase by 28 percent. Letter-handling capabilities will improve by 67 percent.

The automation of the 262,000-sq.-ft. facility is part of DHL’s comprehensive USD 160 million hub investment program. The state-of-the-art equipment at the facility includes shoe-sort and tilt-tray systems, loaders, unloaders, singulators, dimensional and image scanners, scan tunnels and video coding.

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Kuehne + Nagel rises to challenge of congested British roads

Posted by | Mar 19, 2007 | |

Kuehne+Nagel is opening an intermodal terminal in central England to meet the increasing challenge of moving deepsea containers through British ports on ever more congested roads.

The Swiss global logistics provider has signed a deal to use part of ABP Connect’s rail-connected Hams Hall facility on the outskirts of Birmingham. It expects to start operations there within two months.

K+N’s chief executive for North West Europe, Peter Ulber, said that initially the intention was to run up to three container trains a day, two from Southampton and one from Felixstowe.

The development of those operations will help K+N to double the proportion of ocean freight containers it moves around the country by rail rather than by road.

‘Three years ago we had zero movement of containers by rail,’ he said. ‘Now the figure is about 25% and we expect within two years to increase that to 50%.’

The planned opening of the Hams Hall operation, was ‘in line with the strategy of being able to control (container) flows ourselves all the way to the distribution centres of our customers’.

In addition to the container train connections from and to leading ports, contracted out to existing operators such as EWS and Freightliner, the Hams Hall terminal would also handle ‘at least a certain percentage’ of the company’s road-based container movements in the country.

Last year K+N’s British contract logistics division had seen GBP80m (USD158m) of existing contracts renewed and also secured GBP140m of new contracts.

Based on turnover, K+N is now number three in the British contract logistics market behind DHL and Wincanton. Plans for further developing that business included expanding total capacity by about 10%.

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Hermes wins German market share and targets Austria

Posted by | Mar 14, 2007 | |

Hermes Logistik, the German consumer parcels company, today announced double-digit growth, a surge in the number of parcels sent by consumers, and its entry into the Austrian market this summer.

The operator, a subsidiary of Europe’s largest mail-order company, Otto Group, increased gross sales in the business year ending February 28, 2007, by 11.5% to EUR 1,016 million, with net sales up to EUR 872 million. It does not disclose profit figures.

Volumes in the business-to-consume (B2C) segment grew by 10.3% to 235 million shipments, increasing its German B2C market share to 37% from 35%, it said in a statement. The ProfiPaketService for medium-sized firms launched in February 2006 generated 3,000 new customers its first year.

The fastest-growing business, however, was the consumer-to-consumer (C2C) parcel business. “ We are particularly proud of massive growth in private parcels,” said managing director Hanjo Schneider “With an increase of 79% to 23.6 million items we have substantially reduced the gap on the current market leader.”

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DHL’s new 'break-bulk-express' service means faster, more convenient shipping across U.S.-Mexican border

Posted by | Mar 13, 2007 | |

DHL introduced “Break Bulk Express” (BBX) service to customers shipping multiple packages in one day from Mexico to the U.S. BBX consolidates customers’ multiple express shipments into single large bundles that substantially reduce customs clearances, delivery times, tracking and related costs.

DHL’s Northbound BBX is a key capability in the company’s recently-announced North America Trade Lane initiative, a five-year, USD100-million investment and build-out of infrastructure and service in North America. With the introduction of Northbound Break Bulk Express, DHL customers shipping into the U.S. from Mexico can combine individual packages into one large shipment to speed and simplify customs clearance. DHL then “breaks” the bundled shipment back into its individual package components and delivers each to its separate destination.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the market for BBX-type services in North America is currently about USD375 million a year, with air shipments representing approximately 30 percent of the total. Northbound shipments from Mexico include, in rank order, automotive parts, high-tech products, consumer electronic goods, and agricultural goods such as flowers, fruits and vegetables.

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DHL demos RFID-enabled delivery van

Posted by | Mar 8, 2007 | |

DHL has unveiled a prototype of an RFID-enabled van using software and hardware provided by SAVR Communications. The company developed the van to show existing and future customers how RFID technology can benefit them, as well as independent contractors and DHL itself in tracking the movement of vehicles and the individual packages they transport. However, the prototype has not been field-tested.

The prototype DHL van, which had been under development for the past few months, comes equipped with an RFID interrogator and antennas for locating an RFID-tagged package within the van, as well as a GPS device for monitoring the location of the van across its delivery route.

The current prototype van comes equipped with a SAVR UHF Gen 2 RFID interrogator complying with the ISO 18000-6C standard, and seven antennas installed throughout the interior of the van. They capture the RFID number of each tag on a package as it is loaded into the van and send that number to the reader. Antennas then automatically capture the number again when the package is removed. With SAVR software, DHL’s back-end system would be able to determine whether the package is being loaded or removed based on which antenna (such as the antenna in the back of the vehicle or by the door) captures the package’s RFID tag number.

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