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DHL to start negotiations to buy Colombian Servientrega

Posted by | Oct 5, 2006 | |

The global express and logistics company DHL is expected to start negotiations to acquire Colombian package delivery company Servientrega, the newspaper Portafolio said on October 4, 2006.
Representatives of DHL have already arrived in the Latin American country in order to start the talks.
Servientrega has been operating on the Colombian market for the last 24 years. DHL is a unit of German postal services group Deutsche Post AG.
The interest of DHL in Servientrega comes only days after the Colombian company announced investments of USD5.2 mln (4.09 mln euro) in order to start operations in Panama, Peru and Spain.
DHL is the leader on the Colombian package delivery market with a share of 60 pct.
Currently Servientrega (www.servientrega.com) has operations in Ecuador, Venezuela and the United States. The expected signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Colombia and Venezuela is seen to strongly boost the operations of the Colombian company.

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DHL in India. The subcontinent is booming

Posted by | Oct 3, 2006 | |

DHL focuses on logistics infrastructure, the express market, and air freight
The liberalization of the economy, which the Indian government has been continuously driving forward since 1991, has laid the foundations for strong growth. India is now considered one of Asia’s most important markets and a preferred target for foreign investors. Industry is opening up to the export markets and a growing middle class provides for increasing domestic demand.

The outcome is an increase in growth flows. The volume of the transport and logistics market is assessed at EUR 22 billion, and average growth for the coming years at 12 percent, creating strong opportunities for companies in the forwarding and logistics industry.

DHL has consistently expanded its base in the past years – in 2003 with the founding of DHL Danzas Lemuir and in 2005 with the acquisition of an 80 percent share in Blue Dart Express, the leading national express service provider in India. Some 5,800 employees serve over 50,000 customers at 14,000 destinations country wide. Focuses include booming sectors such as the automotive, life sciences, and electronics industries. A task that is not so easy to accomplish in a country around nine times the size of Germany.

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Competition is interested in parcels

Posted by | Oct 2, 2006 | |

DPD (France), post firm, will focus mainly on the delivery of parcels in the Czech Republic. It is a field of post services, where the national post firm Ceska posta (CP) (Czech Republic) has lost its monopoly. DPD transports about 5 mil parcels per year in the Czech Republic in 2006. According to the volume, DPD is in the third position after CP and DHL (US). DPD is a part of the multi-national group GeoPost, which is the third largest provider of express and parcel services in Europe. CP has about 39,000 employees and one-third of them are bearers. CP should be transformed from a state company to a joint-stock company shortly its privatization is being considered.

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DHL launches new express service in Eastern China

Posted by | Sep 29, 2006 | |

On September 26, DHL launched a new express service in China, which is suitable for air express with over 70 kgs of weight and provides an economical solution for heavy shipments from eastern China to America.

It signals the express giant begins to take actions in China’s express freight market with its advantages in the fields of express and freight services.

Compared with other express services, the new service of DHL especially fits express of large amount of freights with less urgency. Through its worlwide network, DHL provides door-to-door delivery service by handling all export requirements with a bill.

Data from China’s Ministry of Commerce shows America has become the largest export market of China. Every year, large amount of finished or semi-finished products are exported to overseas markets, America in particular. Therefore, the new products of DHL will meet the demand of the growing market.

At present, the new service has covered 17 Chinese cities in eastern China like Shanghai and cities in Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces.

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DHL launches parcel delivery desks in 100 Staples stores

Posted by | Sep 29, 2006 | |

DHL has launched a parcel delivery service in more than 100 Staples’ stores and aims to have a presence in 1,000 retail outlets by the end of next year.

DHL’s Service Point desk enables customers to drop off parcels at Staples, instead of waiting for a courier at home. The Service Point desk is live in 137 Staples stores in the UK, as well as London internet cafe Rex Lounge.

The Express4you service has four different tariffs within the UK, Europe, US and the rest of the world. DHL claims the service is attractive for retailers, because it will increase footfall.

DHL Service Point retail development manager Richard Noble said: “A lot of retailers, such as Staples, [want to] generate added footfall, such as getting new customers into stores to make additional purchases on top of the DHL service.”

Ideally, DHL wants to sign retailers with extended opening hours, making supermarkets and convenience stores key targets.

He added: “Retailers earn a commission for each parcel that they handle. It is a fairly substantial commission – we are not here to do people out of money.”

In addition to the drop-off service, the logistics firm aims to add a collect in-store service in the middle of next year.

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