Tag: Europe

PIN picks up Berlin city mail contract

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

prestigious mail contract from the Berlin city government.

PIN Mail, its Berlin-based subsidiary, has retained the Berlin contract following a tender, the company announced. The contract runs for 12 months with an option to extend it for a further year up to a maximum of three years.

PIN will deliver some 28 million letters a year covering all official documents up to a weight of 1kg. The contract is worth EUR 12.6 million in annual revenues.

“The renewed contract for PIN confirms the confidence of the state of Berlin in the quality of our service,” said Axel Stirl, managing director of PIN Mail. The company employs 1,000 staff in Berlin.

The news follows criticism by Deutsche Post chairman Klaus Zumwinkel of low wages at rival mail firms such as PIN Group and TNT Post. PIN Group chief executive Günter Thiel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview that he expected other German cities to follow the example of Berlin. In contrast, a Deutsche Post spokesman played down the importance of the Berlin contract, the newspaper added.

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DHL Hungary grows 25 pct in H1, 2007

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

DHL Express Hungary increased its revenues in the first six months of 2007 by 25.4 pct year-on-year to HUF 6 billion (EUR 24.4 million), according to a report from the Hungarian News Digest.

The company’s marketing manager, Joseph Borocz, was quoted as saying that DHL’s market share would rise over 50 pct within the next five years.

DHL is in the midst of investing in its Hungary operations. In September it is due to start operating its new EUR 18.3 million logistics base near Hungary’s second-largest airport FlyBalaton in Sarmellek on the shore of Lake Balaton, in western Hungary. The facility comprises 7,000 sq m of storage space and 1,400 sq m of offices.

In addition, DHL plans to build a 2,400 sqm, EUR 4.75 million air cargo cross-docking facilities at Sarmellek airport, the construction work of which will begin in September, as well as EUR 17.8 million logistics centre in Budapest that is also expected to be built this year.

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Verastream helps automate package sorting for DHL

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

The company is smart about optimizing processes and using technology in innovative ways. Its latest feat: improving service and cutting costs for DHL Belgium, thanks to a new automated sorting system with integrated shipping information.

Unlocking vital Unix-based data, DHL Belgium has become the linchpin of DHL’s worldwide express and logistics activities. It has 10 modern sorting centers and nearly 3 700 employees.

At the Zaventem Airport alone, DHL handles an average of 900 tons of packages a night. Sorting that many packages by size and weight is an extremely slow, error-prone and expensive process. In an effort to ensure faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective delivery, DHL Belgium decided to implement an automated sorting system. The system would be able to automatically scan, weigh, and measure packages, and then ship them to their appropriate destinations.

For that to happen, DHL needed to somehow integrate the required shipping information with the new sorting system. The problem was that all shipping information was locked inside a home-grown, London-based UNIX application. The application did not have a programming interface, and there was no way to access the database directly. Rewriting all the business logic was not an option. The only alternative was to access the data through the application’s VT terminal interface.Using Verastream, Vanherck found he could capture selected application logic and data in the central shipping application and wrap them up as easy-to-integrate Web services. The Web services, which retain all the information about the host behavior, can then be consumed by the automated sorting system’s material flow controller software.

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TNT Express import service available to120 countries

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

TNT has expanded its worldwide import service to 120 countries and plans to extend it to cover more of the globe.

The number of countries covered by the Import Service has risen to 120 with the addition of Malawi and New Caledonia, TNT Express Germany said in a statement. Source markets served include China, India, Brazil and Russia.

Under the service, customers can import documents, parcels and freights with minimum administration with agreed transit times and pay standardized prices in euros. TNT handles the shipment from collection, transport and customs clearance through to final delivery.

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Fedex quits Frankfurt

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

U.S. integrator FedEx will cease their Frankfurt flight operations and move traffic to Cologne/Bonn airport instead.
The move will be taken in spring 2010 and include 60 weekly flights.

Reason for doing so is the night flight ban Frankfurt’s airport company Fraport AG wants to impose by 2011 when runway number four will be ready and go into service.

Closing of Rhein/Main from midnight till 5:00 am is strongly backed by the local Hesse politicians.

Governor Herr Koch promised the public to shut down continental Europe’s busiest airport during night times as compromise for building an additional runway that will trigger more traffic and thus assault the vicinity of Rhein/Main.

Now FedEx however pulled the emergency brake by quitting Frankfurt and moving to Cologne.

Fedex announced the building of a new sorting center for 140 million euros that will open up its gates by 2010 and be exclusively utilized by FedEx.

While Cologne/Bonn airport invests 70 million euros the U.S. package giant promised to pay the other half for equipping the facility with a state-of-the-art sorting systems. Garvens further pointed out that he intends to renew the license for night flights beyond 2015 when the current allowance for as many as 36 nightly operations expires.

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