Tag: Europe

TNT Express names new Head of Communications

Posted by | Jul 3, 2008 | |

TNT Express GmbH, based in Troisdorf (DE), have appointed Markus Gehmeyrist as Head of Company Communication on 1 July. In this position he is responsible for the merger sectors external and internal communications, as well as the events/sponsoring segment and company spokesman. Gehmeyrist reports directly to Thomas Kraus, Chairman of TNT Express GmbH. Markus Wohler, who led the press and public relations department for over 19 years, is leaving TNT by mutual consent.

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State aid: Commission endorses EUR 1.6 million training aid for DHL in Leipzig-Halle and rejects EUR 6.1 million operating aid

Posted by | Jul 3, 2008 | |

The European Commission has endorsed EUR 1.6 million of training aid at DHL’s new site in Leipzig-Halle, Germany but rejected a further EUR 6.1 of aid which would have acted as an illegal operating aid. The Commission’s decision follows an in-depth investigation under EC Treaty state aid rules launched in June 2007. The Commission concluded that the EUR 1.6 million would genuinely lead to additional training which goes beyond legal requirements and operational needs, and therefore complied with the EU state aid rules on training aid.

However, the Commission rejected as incompatible a further EUR 6.1 million of funding that would have served to finance training activities that DHL would have carried out anyway, even without aid, and concluded that the aid would be used finance ordinary operating costs of DHL. Such operating aid would have given DHL an unfair advantage over its competitors, who don’t receive such aid, and so seriously distorted competition.

Germany notified its intention to grant subsidies of EUR 7.7 million to DHL for a training project concerning certain jobs such as ground handling of airfreight, security agents, pre-flight and ramp mechanics. Following its relocation to Leipzig-Halle, DHL, with the support of regional aid approved by the Commission in April 2004,, built a new delivery and airfreight centre, where it employs around 1500 new staff, of which 480 are concerned by the training project.

The Commission is in favour of supporting training activities, because they benefit the European economy by broadening the pool of skilled workers. However, it is necessary to ensure that such aid actually motivates companies to carry out additional training activities and is not simply used to subsidise the cost of training that the company would in any case have to undertake. This is particularly necessary in a globalised economy, where companies decide to relocate to new sites and where unjustified aid can give rise to considerable distortions of competition.

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DHL expands French express network with new centres and flights

Posted by | Jul 3, 2008 | |

DHL Express has extended its network in France with investment of EUR 15 million this year in new sorting centres in Paris and two branches in northern and eastern France. It has also launched flights between Paris and the new European air hub in Leipzig.
More than EUR 5 million was invested into the new sorting centre at Villeneuve-la-Garenne on the northern outskirts of Paris. DHL also inaugurated a new sorting centre at Vitry, south of Paris, new branches in Lille and Metz, northern France, and two new air routes linking Roissy and Vatry with Leipzig.
The 5900 sqm facility at Villeneuve, completed in March this year, consists of a 5000 sqm warehouse divided into two parts and 900 sqm of office space. Two thirds of the warehouse area is destined for sorting activity and the other third is used for distribution. The sorting system has capacity for up to 5,000 parcels an hour. Some 165 employees work at the site.
In total, there are about 4,200 inbound and 4,200 outbound shipments handled daily at Villeneuve, amounting to 85 daily truck journeys and 30 air containers. The centre, open 24/7, handles a daily average of 40 tonnes of imports and 55 tonnes of exports.
Security is ensured by X-ray tunnels which scan all departing shipments in line with the air cargo security regulations of the French civil aviation authority DGAC. To improve handling, the conveyor belts are equipped with high-tech scanning technology which enables regular transfer every 10 minutes of shipment information for tracking, delivery and pick-up purposes. Solar panels generate warm water and other environmental measures such as selective sorting and training for eco-driving will be implemented by the end of this year.

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Airbus selects DHL as lead transport provider

Posted by | Jul 2, 2008 | |

DHL to manage significant part of inbound transportation from air, ocean, road, customs and value-added services

DHL announced a new five-year agreement with Airbus.

Under this agreement, DHL becomes the lead transport provider and a tier one partner of Airbus. DHL will implement its full transportation system, 4PL control tower and optimization program to streamline the flow of materials to Airbus manufacturing plants.

The Control Tower will manage a significant part of inbound transportation including air and ocean freight, road freight, customs and value added services.

DHL’s expertise in deploying transportation solutions to deliver harmonization and optimization of transportation processes aims at generating savings for large size customers.

Implementation of the new transportation concept will start 1st September this year.

Global Customer Solutions (GCS) has been serving DHL group’s major customers through a dedicated customer management organization since 2004. Industry experts within GCS act as empowered single point of contact along the entire supply chain of the individual key customers. The team of experts also continuously develop the group’s business in line with changing market conditions and customer needs.

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Poste Italiane: In Cairo, Sarmi gives go ahead for plans to develop Egypt’s Postal System

Posted by | Jul 2, 2008 | |

CEO of Poste Italiane, Massimo Sarmi, and President and CEO of Egypt Post, Alaa Fahmy, are scheduled to starts off a cooperative program for the development of Egypt’s national postal system as established by the agreement signed last March. This agreement between Poste Italiane and Egypt Post allows for the activation of joint projects aimed at improving the quality of Egypt’s postal system and heightening innovation through the introduction of new services. It also specifies that Finmeccanica will be acting as technological partner which will provide the technological platforms with which the Egyptian postal system will operate.

Experts involved in the project were divided into five comparable work groups in order to study the development of products and services (with particular focus on financial services), through the optimization of the logistics network (in reference to the monitoring and control over phases of collection, sorting, shipping, and delivery), the development of ICT services and their application in the logistics network, the expansion of real estate assets, and projects involving human resource training.

The work groups are overseen by a Steering Committee formed by Poste Italiane, Egypt Post and Finmeccanica. The CIO structures of Poste Italiane and Egypt Post are also working on a joint project in order to activate a secure connection (SVPN) that will allow the work groups to exchange data and information through secure and reliable lines of communication.

Poste Italiane and Finmeccanica know-how will allow them to provide Egypt Post with solutions for optimal organization in postal services, automation and distribution of mailing and delivery, security systems, hybrid mail, applications for the peripheral network of Egyptian post offices, innovation in the ICT sector, and human resource training.

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