Tag: Europe

GLS to invest EUR 12.3m in eco-depot (GER)

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

GLS Germany announced that it will invest EUR 12 .3 million in building its first ecological depot in Vaihingen-Enz, southeast Germany.
The construction of the eco-depot started this month at the 5,000 sqm facility located in Vaihingen-Enz for which GLS signed the purchase contract in July. The company plans to go into operation by April 2009 with a warehouse capacity handling about 55,000 parcels per day. About 342 people will be employed at the new depot.
A large part of the investment will pay off in the long term not only ecologically, but also economically, the company said in a statement. The amount of EUR 1 million is invested in “Think Green” measurements including a heat pump heating system and a photovoltaic installation.
GLS planned to invest an amount of EUR 94 million in infrastructure and services with priority in Germany, Poland, Netherlands and France for 2008/2009.

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FedEx Express breaks ground on new central and Eastern Europe hub

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

FedEx Express broke ground on a new hub at the Cologne/Bonn airport, the site of the company’s new Central and Eastern European gateway.

The state-of-the-art facility will be the largest FedEx Express gateway in Germany. In addition, it will be the first solar-powered hub for FedEx outside of the U.S. and the company’s largest solar-powered hub worldwide. The hub is slated for completion in 2010 and is expected to employ 450 people in Cologne.

New ramp, freight and sort facilities with a fully-automated sort system will cover a floor space of approximately 50,000 square meters. In addition, the facility will be equipped with a 1.4-megawatt solar power system, which can generate approximately 1.3 gigawatt hours of electricity per year – equivalent to the annual consumption of 370 households. Solar panels, fitted to the roof of the new ramp and sort facilities, will cover a total surface area of 16,000 square meters.

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GLS system now provides delivery status in real-time

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

At GLS, seamless parcel tracking has been a matter of course for years. At each interface, i.e. every time a parcel reaches or leaves a depot or vehicle, the individual parcel number is recorded with a scanning device. These status reports are transmitted to the GLS IT system, where they are made available to customers – via the Internet or telephone. Up until now, however, delivery information was transmitted to the system in the evenings when the driver returned to the depot. This has now changed. As of September, parcel tracking at GLS is now possible in real-time.

Delivery data is transferred directly “on tour” from the delivery vehicle. When the parcel is handed over to the recipient, the GLS driver utilises a handheld scanner to record both the parcel number and the consignee’s signature.

GLS thoroughly – and successfully – tested the mobile data transfer service at one of its subsidiaries. Based on these results, it is now implemented comprehensively throughout the entire group.

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Bulgarian Post expects 7 percent growth in 2008

Posted by | Oct 20, 2008 | |

It is expected the income of the postal service to exceed 7 pct in 2008. It is envisaged increasing the number of the legal operators in 2008, chairperson of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications, Plamen Vachkov said during a roundtable discussion, FOCUS News Agency reporter informed. More than 80 postal operators are on the Bulgarian market in the situation of liberalization of the postal services.

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Rivals deliver new blow to Royal Mail (UK)

Posted by | Oct 19, 2008 | |

Private postal companies are rapidly gaining ground on the Royal Mail in Scotland, with one firm tripling its business since the start of the year.

Figures to be released on Friday by TNT Post UK will show private operators have seized a large slice of the business delivery market over the past 12 months as more firms move away from the Royal Mail.

TNT Post will reveal it has tripled its business clients in Scotland to 300 since January.

It has also doubled the number of letters and packages it carries north of the border from 4.5m to nine million in the past 12 months.

The company says its services are proving particularly popular among Scotland’s army of small and medium-sized businesses which are looking to trim their costs.

The figures will make grim reading for the Royal Mail, which has faced mounting competition from firms such as TNT Post and DX since the UK postal market was liberalised in 2006.

TNT Post says it wants to launch a nationwide “end-to-end” service, where it will handle post at every stage, from pick up to delivery, but it is currently prevented from doing so because of unfair barriers in certain parts of the market.

Most private operators still pay the Royal Mail to deliver mail over the “final mile”.

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