Tag: Domestic

TNT restructures express services

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

TNT claimed its emphasis on morning deliveries, which it is backing with an international communications campaign under the “Good Morning!” theme, was unique in the market.

The key to TNT’s restructuring is close integration between its road and air networks. Nigel Barton, strategic operations director, said TNT was the only integrator with fully merged road and air operations in Europe, operating 3,700 linehauls a week.

The company has an intraregional focus rather than the intercontinental focus of its main express rivals.

Marie-Christine Lombard, group MD for TNT Express, said the company would operate only on selected long haul routes, but was seeking to replicate its European regional road/air model in markets such as Brazil, India and China, where it has acquired large domestic players in the last two years.

TNT has calculated its share of Europe’s GBP 21bn (USD 26.8 bn) express market at 17 pct , ahead of DHL on 16 pct. Lombard said it was a great opportunity that “others” outside the main integrators and post offices still accounted for 48 pct of the market, since so many smaller players were “destination specialists” offering just one or two countries.

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Geodis partnership extends Xpedx's reach

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

A local distributor has formed an alliance with a French company that will expand both companies’ global footprint.

Xpedx announced Monday that it has signed a strategic alliance with Geodis, a Paris-based third-party logistics company. The two companies will offer a full range of logistics services, including air, sea and multi-modal transport, asset and inventory management, and other supply chain services.

“We will provide Geodis comprehensive geographical coverage and extended logistics service for their customers throughout the U.S.,” said Dan Watkoske, vice president of sales for Loveland-based Xpedx. “They, in turn, will provide the same for our customers with operations outside the U.S.”

Geodis, which has subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Mexico, recently acquired TNT Freight Management, part of an Amsterdam firm with global operations, including in the United States.

Xpedx is a unit of International Paper headquartered in Memphis, Tenn.

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New milestone in company’s history as ANC becomes FedEx UK

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

FedEx Express announced the re-branding of its recently-acquired UK domestic express company, ANC. From today, ANC will be known as FedEx UK and the new brand will be rolled out across all assets and uniforms by autumn next year.
“Since acquiring ANC in December last year, our management teams have been working together to ensure the benefits of the acquisition are passed on to customers of both organizations. Today’s unveiling of the new brand is an exciting step in fully embracing the FedEx UK staff and operations into the broader FedEx family,” said Robert W. Elliott, president, FedEx Express, Europe, Middle-East, Indian sub-continent and Africa.
“Today marks a major and symbolic milestone in our corporate history and one that everyone at FedEx UK warmly welcomes. At the end of the re-branding in the autumn of 2008, about 2,000 vehicles and 3,000 uniformed employees and contractors will proudly carry the new FedEx UK livery,” said FedEx UK CEO, Michael Holt.
Under its new brand, FedEx UK will continue to provide an outstanding range of comprehensive domestic distribution and logistics services with an established national pick-up and delivery network. FedEx UK will build on its strong customer service heritage and remain focused on delivery reliability and the development of its employees.

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Privatized Japan Post gets new business model

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

Introducing Toyota Motor Corp.’s business methods to Japan Post Corporation, which will be privatized on Oct. 1, is the next challenge for Norio Kitamura, a former Toyota Motor Italia president who will be the chairman and chief executive officer of Japan Post Service Co., one of four operating firms in charge of postal services.

Japan Post will be divided into a holding company and four operating firms handling postal delivery, customer service, postal savings and postal insurance.

Kitamura was the president of the Italian subsidiary of Toyota. for 10 years until June 2006, when he was urged to take the Japan Post position by Toyota’s former chairman, Hiroshi Okuda, then a member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy.

He was chosen because of his remarkable achievements at the Italian subsidiary, but his experience at Toyota, which is famous for kaizen (operational improvements), is also expected to contribute to better postal services.

Although the postal services are different from the automobile industry, “the basics of business are the same,” Kitamura said.

In the fiscal year that ended in March 31, the total operating income of Japan Post was 19.6 trillion yen. Income from postal delivery was 1.9 trillion yen, an increase of 3.3 billion yen from the previous fiscal year due to increased shipments of small packages and international mail. However, the total quantity of domestic and international mail and packages has decreased over the past five years.

Increasing value of small packages and international mail, which only account for about 10 percent of the total quantity of postal material, is also a key for the postal delivery business. USD = 115.090 JPY

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German cabinet set to approve minimum wage for postal sector

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

The German grand coalition cabinet is set to approve a minimum wage for the postal deliveries sector when it meets Wednesday, a government spokesman said Monday.

Spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said he expects the necessary steps will be taken to approve it.

The Social Democrats’ SPD party and the conservative parties CDU and CSU recently clashed over the introduction of a minimum wage parallel to the completion of the liberalization of the letter deliveries market that is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2008.

The Social Democrats had publicly called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to accept the minimum wage as agreed in a previous agenda, despite resistance from the German Economics Minister Michael Glos.

A spokeswoman for Glos said Monday she was confident that a solution could be found Wednesday.

Former monopoly Deutsche Post AG and services union ver.di recently agreed on a minimum wage in a range of between EUR8 and EUR9.8 per hour.

The SPD remains committed to extend minimum wages to other sectors, Hubertus Heil, the SPD’s general secretary said.

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