Tag: Europe

Parcelforce IT boosts productivity

Posted by | Feb 1, 2005 | |

Parcelforce Worldwide has improved driver productivity by 20% after rolling out route planning and scheduling software. Parcelforce also cut route planning time for its 2,000-vehicle operation by 90% after replacing a system based on Excel with software from Paragon. The company, which delivers 150,000 parcels a day, uses the software to allocate work to routes and calculate efficient route sequences. This helps it plan driver start and finish times, mileage, the number of drops and driver and van utilisation. Eddie McBride, project manager at Parcelforce, said, “Improving driver productivity by 20% has enabled us to reduce the number of drivers and the number of vehicles we need to use to achieve the same, if not higher, levels of service.”

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UK Exel shares rise on takeover talk

Posted by | Feb 1, 2005 | |

Shares in British logistics provider Exel closed up 9 percent at a two-and-a-half year high on Tuesday on speculation it is the target of a takeover bid. The BBC reported that industry speculation has focused on United Parcel Services as the most likely bidder. DHL, a unit of Germany’s Deutsche Post, and finance firm GE Capital have also been prominently mentioned. At Tuesday’s market close, Exel was valued at USD6.3 billion. Exel employs 109,000 people in more than 120 countries and has itself been active in the consolidation of the logistics sector, buying UK firm Tibbett & Britten last August.

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Business Post launches its own drop-box system

Posted by | Feb 1, 2005 | |

In what could turn out to be a landmark development, Business Post has started marketing its own drop-box system for unattended deliveries. The company is thought to be the first mainstream UK parcels carrier to have taken this step, although others such as Royal Mail have experimented with box systems of various kinds, and Hays had its own extensive network of box banks for deliveries to field staff (it was later sold to ByBox). The Business Post system is based round the Canadian-developed eBox range, for which the company has become the exclusive UK distributor. eBox consists of individual boxes (they come in three sizes), which are placed directly outside the recipient’s business or home. Business Post is targeting both business and consumer markets with the eBox, although business users are initially seen as the prime potential users.

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Bring it on home to me

Posted by | Feb 1, 2005 | |

Two-man home deliveries are on the increase as home shopping flourishes and products get more unwieldy. But it takes a special range of skills to get it right. Two-man operations remain a small percentage of the home delivery market – some say just 2 per cent, other 5 to 10 per cent – but it is growing at an impressive rate.

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GeoPost expands into Bosnia Herzegovina

Posted by | Jan 31, 2005 | |

GeoPost has continued its expandion across the Balkans by launching its DPD road express network in Bosnia Herzegovina through a joint venture with Austrian dcompany Lagermax. The company is now also opoerational in Bulgaria thanks to a jv between its Turkish arm, GeoPost Yurtici Kargo Servisi, and local courier City Express.

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