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FedEx partner to open campus design center in the UK

Posted by | Jan 18, 2007 | |

UK Auxiliary Services announced the grand opening of the Design, Print and Mail Center in the White Hall Classroom Building at a ribbon cutting ceremony.

FedEx partnered with UK Auxiliary Services to open the new center.

Crutcher said this is only the beginning for the Design, Print and Mail Center. The next project is to open a retail store on campus where there is more visibility aside from the Classroom Building basement.

The partnership will also benefit faculty and staff while they are away from campus, such as while on sabbatical or traveling to a conference, by allowing them to use Lexington prices at other FedEx Kinko’s and charging the services to the university.

UK is now partnered as one of 1,700 FedEx Kinko’s in the nation. Steve Dillingham, managing director of operations for FedEx Kinko’s, said the available services will continue to expand.

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The ROI of Nice

Posted by | Jan 18, 2007 | |

Can this relationship be saved? That was one of the questions in the mind of Mike Hmel, FedEx Ground’s senior vice president of IT and CIO, as he prepared for a meeting with Sun Microsystems.
The IT department at FedEx Ground was struggling to develop a transportation management system (TMS) using what was a new technology in 1998 – Sun Microsystems’ Java software. The TMS would help determine the most efficient and cost-effective way for the $US5.3 billion company to move its tractors, trailers and dollies among its 29 hubs and more than 500 pickup/delivery terminals. As such, it would be the backbone of the Pittsburgh-based FedEx Corp. subsidiary.
But the multimillion-dollar development effort was “stuck in the mud”, according to Hmel. Implementing the software was far more complicated than Hmel had expected. Java was more than a programming language: It was a technology that would have a profound impact on FedEx Ground’s IT infrastructure, requiring a shift from two-tiered client/server computing environments to multi-tiered Web-based computing environments. It also demanded a new approach to application development. What’s more, FedEx Ground’s IT department wound up having to buy more products to support the development of the TMS. Consequently, the relationship between Sun and FedEx Ground grew strained, which didn’t make resolving the problems any easier.

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FedEx Jet flying with anti-missile system

Posted by | Jan 18, 2007 | |

An anti-missile system is being tested aboard a FedEx MD-10 during its regular cargo flights, Northrop Grumman said this week. The airplane launched on Tuesday from Los Angeles International Airport with the Guardian system installed, starting the operational test and evaluation portion of the program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The tests will continue through March 2008. The Guardian system uses proven military technology to defend against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, Northrop Grumman said. The system detects an approaching missile and directs a non-visible, eye-safe laser toward it to disrupt its guidance signals.

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Foreign Capital swarmed into China Logistics

Posted by | Jan 15, 2007 | |

Many foreign companies made investments in China’s logistics last year because of the opening up in 2005.

The competition in logistics mainly focuses on cargo transportation and express services. FedEx, the world’s largest express company, offers services to more than 220 Chinese cities. The number will increase by 100 in the following four or five years.

UPS, a leading global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services in the US, operates six direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai and has set up offices in over 20 cities, including Shenzhen, Qingdao, and Xiamen.

TNT, a world leading provider of express delivery services, logistics supply chain solutions and mail services, has had more than 2,000 service networks in China.

Meanwhile, foreign capital also focuses on auto logistics, energy transportation and port logistics.

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Indian express industry set for sizzling growth

Posted by | Jan 15, 2007 | |

India’s express industry is expected to register a growth of at least 20 per cent per annum during the next five years and more than double its size by 2012, according to a study by rating agency Credit Analysis & Research (CARE). Opening of banking, insurance, retail, aviation and telecom sectors and their penetration to smaller cities would be the major growth driver.

According to CARE, the size of India’s courier industry currently stands at around Rs 7,100 crore and is estimated to have grown at a CAGR of around 33 per cent over the past decade. At its current estimated size, the courier industry is larger than the tea industry and close to the size of paper and shipping industries in India.
The industry is highly fragmented with more than 2500 express players and a few large sized players account more than half of the industry revenues.

The industry contributes more than Rs 1000 crore to the government revenues by way of service tax, income tax and other levies and it offers employment opportunity to about a million people.

Amongst domestic players Blue Dart, DTDC, First Flight and Overnite Express are leading express services companies in India while UPS, FedEx, DHL and TNT are leading international players presence in the country. According to the CARE survey, the industry players earn about 52 per cent of its revenues from document parcels.

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