The European Commission are set to clear a 70 mln eur aid package offered by the German government to Deutsche Post AG’s express delivery service DHL, industry sources said.
DHL Companies Cologne GmbH will put the 70 mln eur towards the cost of constructing a logistics centre at Halle-Leipzig city airport. The total cost of the project is 253 mln eur.
Read MoreAn historic agreement between package-delivery company DHL and Teamster local unions provides job security and pay protections for more than 6,000 union members who previously worked for Airborne Express in US/Canada.
“This historic agreement protects the security of our hardworking members and the security of their families,” said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President. “This agreement will lead to more solid family-wage jobs in the future.”
Read MoreUPS ranks highest in business customer satisfaction for domestic air, ground and international delivery, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Small-Package Delivery Service Business Customer Satisfaction Study(SM). This study is based on 913 telephone interviews with shipping managers and other business personnel at U.S. businesses that have at least 10 employees at a specific location and spend USD10,000 or more annually to ship small packages (up to 150 lbs.). UPS performs particularly well in all three segments in the areas of shipping and delivery, delivery drivers, delivery tracking and communication.
Read MoreDHL Express has launched a new service called Air Cross in Malaysia.
Air Cross, an extension of DHL’s Import Express service, allows customers to arrange delivery directly from their oversea suppliers to international and domestic clients.
Read MoreThe Deutsche Post World Net and its subsidiary DHL are in the middle of a fundamental consolidation process. The ITJ spoke to Sal di Franco, Managing Director of DHL Italy.
Taking four express networks and making them into one should be a win-win situation for company and customer alike.
But Sal di Franco, who, as head of DHL Italy and its Italian subsidiary, is managing just such a consolidation process for Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) in Italy, knows things are not that simple south of the Alps.
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