Tag: Europe

Bulgaria and Romania – DPD Masterlink opened new road connections from Poland

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

In order to satisfy new market demands, DPD Masterlink opened daily road connections to Bulgaria and Romania. DPD Masterlinks customers as well as clients of partner subsidiaries belonging to the GeoPost Group, show great interest in sending parcels to these countries. The free circulation of goods within the European Union has resulted in the creation of a new international road transportation market for parcel delivery.

This market did not exist before, because of the prohibitive costs of customs clearance. The cost was the same for a single parcel and a whole grouping of parcels. Import and export volumes will fully benefit from the disappearance of customs barriers. It is predicted, similarly to when Poland joined the European Union, that volumes from Bulgaria and Romania will rise to 4 times the amount within the very first year of EU membership.

The new transport network set up by DPD gives our clients additional proof of our commitment to following them in emerging markets but also towards destinations beyond the European Community area, farther afield towards Central and Eastern Europe. We are once again showing our willingness to increase our quality of service to these countries by our capacity for adapting our organisation, explains Paul-Marie Chavanne, CEO of GeoPost.

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Correos’ urgent post delivery workers are now using PDAs

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

Correos has successfully completed the incorporation of PDA terminals in its 100 Special Service Units (USEs) distributed throughout Spain. This will not only make the work easier for the over 2,000 delivery personnel in these units who have received this technological tool, but it will also make the delivery service more efficient and dynamic.

Incorporating the PDAs in the Urgent Delivery Units has taken an investment of euro 2 million, though Correos ‘ overall project is to extend the use of PDAs to all of its 30,000 workers who deliver mail every day. Through this ambitious plan, the post office aims to increase the quality of its delivery service. By using the PDAs, the postal workers will be able to dedicate more time to deliveries and less time to administrative tasks at the unit. In addition, the PDAs will make quality control easier and will provide more and better information on deliveries, allowing Correos to give its users and clients comprehensive information on their deliveries. Additionally, using these digital assistants, the post office will be able to offer new added value services, such as tracking urgent deliveries by time bands, digital acknowledgement of receipt, etc.

There are three stages to this mobility plan. In the first, a pilot study was conducted at two Special Service Units in Madrid and one in Toledo. The second stage has just been completed, with the deployment of the PDAs in the 100 USEs, following training of their 2,000 users. The third and final stage will be the gradual deployment of this technology to all other delivery centres, giving PDAs to the whole network, which comprises 2,000 main units and over 8,000 rural postal delivery workers.

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TNT Post looks to text response to bring new business

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

TNT Post, the UK postal service, has launched an advertising and mailing campaign with a text response and mobile download element.

TNT is hoping to poach customers from Royal Mail and the company wants to expand on the 60m letters a month it currently processes.
It has decided to use the mobile phone channel rather than the internet as the medium to give interested prospects more information about the company, having decided it speeds up response rates. It also allows TNT’s saleforce to make follow up calls.

The marketing materials invite people to text ‘TNT Post’ to the number 60123. They are sent back a link to the TNT Post mobile internet site, from which they can download more information including testimonial videos from current TNT clients Sky and Lloyds TSB.

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Swiss Kuehne & Nagel To Carry Out UK House of Fraser Home Delivery Services

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

Swiss logistics company Kuehne & Nagel International AG started to carry out the home delivery services for made-to-order furniture of UK department stores operator House of Fraser as of the beginning of February 2007, Kuehne & Nagel reported on February 8, 2007.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Under the terms of the contract, Kuehne & Nagel will be responsible for the warehousing and for some 30,000 deliveries annually to customers across UK and Ireland. House of Fraser will make cost savings through reduced inventory by a closer alignment of order to delivery time and through the support of Kuehne & Nagel’s information technology (IT) and booking processes. The logistics company will integrate House of Fraser business into its furniture distribution

network which is used by other unnamed UK furniture retailers for more than 175,000 deliveries annually.

Kuehne & Nagel (www.kuehne-nagel.com) employs 45,000 at 830 locations in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company provides seafreight, airfreight, contract logistics and overland businesses and IT-based supply chain

management services. Its UK and Ireland organisation operates at 80 locations and employs more than 10,000.

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Palletways acquires Italian operation

Posted by | Feb 13, 2007 | |

Palletways Europe, parent company of Palletways UK, has acquired the Italian operation it licensed out in 2002.

Palletways Italia has more than 60 depots and two hub facilities in Bologna and Naples.

As part of the acquisition, Palletways has purchased land near the Bologna facility in order to construct a new 15,000 m2 hub to accommodate future volume growth. Excected to be fully operational by early-2008, the new hub facility will handle express deliveries across Italy and to other parts of Europe served by Palletways.

The acquisition forms part of Palletways’ strategy to provide a dedicated and integrated pan-European network for the express delivery of small consignments of palletised freight.

Palletways now controls all its networks in the UK and mainland Europe, which today comprise more than 250 depots and eight hub facilities, handling around 20,000 pallets a day.

According to Palletways chief executive James Wilson, the company is also in the process of linking the Palletways Italia operation with the company’s other networks covering the Benelux region, Denmark, France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and, later, Spain, to enable cross-border deliveries between all these countries.

Palletways Europe has appointed Roberto Rossi (ex-TNT Logistics) as chairman of Palletways Italia, Bernardo Cammarata (ex-TNT and DHL) as general manager, and Dr Antonio Giambrone as director of finance.

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