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TNT strengthens foothold in RI's express delivery market

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

Urip Hudiono, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta

TNT is one of the world’s largest express delivery and logistics services, competing against DHL, UPS and Federal Express.

Established in Australia, the now Netherlands-based company has been operating in Indonesia since 1979. It has been expanding its network in Indonesia since last year and provides special delivery services for its customers. The Jakarta Post spoke to TNT country general manager Peter Langley.

Question: What is Indonesia’s express delivery and logistics services market like?”

Answer: We’re in markets all around the world, some of the markets are growing, and some of the other markets are growing even much more.

And we look at places like China, Vietnam and Indonesia. They’re places we need to be, because we know those markets are growing very quickly, for import, export and domestically.

We want to be here, and we want to grow our infrastructure. Indonesia is a very important platform as part of our the global network.

Indonesia also has a very big market for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). I come from 10 years in the express delivery business in Australia, and the SME business is very big there, and I come here, and it’s even bigger.

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Cargo jets carry some risks along with shipments – Group boosts effort to educate senders about unsafe packages

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

A woman walked into Bruce Bernstein’s Pompano Beach, Fla., parcel shipping store with a box that she said had to arrive before July 4th. Inside were 28 pounds of fireworks, bottle rockets and illegal, high-powered firecrackers known as M-80s.

“It would have taken down a plane no problem,” says Bernstein, recalling an incident from two summers ago that underscores the difficulties private shippers have with keeping hazardous materials off planes.

The Associated Mail and Parcel Centers, which represents over 3,000 small shipping centers, estimates that each year thousands of packages like this one slip unnoticed onto planes all over the USA. The leading industry trade group and the government have stepped up efforts to educate the public about shipping flammable goods.

The rapid growth in shipments has made it increasingly difficult to police what goes into packages that crisscross the nation, the association says. Its members are small stores that pack items and funnel packages to the large shipping companies. They handle 29 million packages a year.

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DHL reaches half a million packstation users

Posted by | Nov 17, 2006 | |

Half a million customers are now using DHL’s Packstation service. Christine Schnellhammer from Munich was the 500,000th customer to sign up for the innovative automated parcel service. The degree of acceptance among customers demonstrates that what began as a DHL pilot project four years ago has proven to be a successful, nationwide 24/7 service.

“Strong customer response is motivating us to pursue a determined expansion drive for Packstation”, says Steffen Frankenberg, DHL’s Packstation project manager. The first Packstation machines for private customers were set up in Dortmund and Mainz in January 2002.

Since then their number has gone up and up. Today, more than 700 Packstation machines are in use in over 120 towns and cities, with around 30 more by the end of 2007.

Packstation enables registered customers to collect and send off small packets and parcels 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As soon as a shipment is ready for collection customers are sent a text message or e-mail. For customers sending parcels via a Packstatio, parcel stamps are available for sale at the machine.

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DHL launches GTS to simplify international trade

Posted by | Nov 17, 2006 | |

Express and logistics company DHL today launched a new service, Global Trade Services (GTS), to facilitate trade through international shipping by managing duty regulations and business processes.

The service for the company’s customers in the Asia Pacific region caters to the needs of international shippers looking at streamlining their logistics process, a company release said.

“Leveraging DHL’s trade facilitation expertise, customers will be able to reduce the complexity, risks and costs of international shipping and do more business,” DHL Express CEO Scott Price said.

The service would provide trade solutions apart from the company’s core transportation offerings and would enable shippers to trade internationally with greater control, increased transparency and efficiency, he added.

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DHL deepens commitment in Vietnam with USD 14 million investment

Posted by | Nov 16, 2006 | |

DHL, a leading express delivery and logistics company, today announced an investment of USD14 million for infrastructure upgrades and service expansion in Vietnam from its Express business, as well as a commitment to increase its strategic presence around Vietnam for the DHL Logistics arm.

Under the newly formed DHL-VNPT joint venture, DHL Express will be investing USD14 million into Vietnam, which is earmarked for new facilities in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Haiphong and Danang, as well as fleet upgrades, direct service expansion to key industrial zones, and new vehicles.

The expansion in Vietnam totals DHL’s Asia Pacific investment to more than USD1.7 billion. The logistics infrastructural announcement in China, the expansion of the Incheon facility in South Korea and, within the week, the inauguration of the new Bangkok hub, are part of DHL’ s recent announcements that further reiterate the company’s commitment to the Asia Pacific region.

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