Deutsche Post World Net AG. is planning to hike the number of its automatic parcel delivery stations in Germany to 2,500 from a current 1,000 by the end of 2009, also using stores of retailer Aldi, Focus reported in an article to be published tomorrow, citing no sources.
The total investment is seen at 20 million to 30 million euros, Focus added, with several hundred stations to be installed in Aldi stores.
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Read MoreTNT Express has chosen Jürgen Marx as its new director of human resources. The industrial administrator and economist is responsible for the following divisions: people and organisational development, human resources management and payroll, compensation and benefits, as well as labour law. Marx reports directly to Jürgen Seifert, managing director human resources and general services of TNT Express GmbH.
Read MoreOn August 6, the second round of DHL Fast Forward, the first worldwide logistics business simulation, will get underway.
Round one saw more than 8,500 participants from over 120 countries. Now it’s down to the best 100 teams, each with 5 players, to master the unique online strategy game.
While the players used the first round to build up their country’s leading express courier company, phase two will be about taking on the global market. At the same time, business models will be expanded to include other logistics services such as air travel and sea cargo.
At the start of 2009, the ten best teams of this competition will meet at Deutsche Post World Net’s headquarters in Bonn, Germany, and contend in the final round of DHL Fast Forward.
In mid-April, DHL launched its international Discover Logistics initiative under the patronage of German Secretary of State, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The aim of Discover Logistics is to open up the exciting and fast-growing logistics industry to as many talented newcomers as possible and give them a good idea of career perspectives available in the logistics industry.
On top of in-depth industry knowledge and business expertise, the second phase of DHL Fast Forward will require excellent communication skills and the ability to organize teamwork effectively across national borders and different cultural backgrounds. It will take seven weeks in total, and this time everyone who battled it out on their own in the first phase will have to show their ability to contribute to a team effort.
The winning team is in for EUR50,000 worth of prizes, including management training, travel vouchers and opportunities to make invaluable contacts from all corners of the world’s largest logistics employer.
Read MoreRed Parcel Post, the prospective German parcel market entrant, is all set to start work on its EUR 130 million hub in eastern Germany, according to media reports. The launch of the start-up parcels carrier has been repeatedly announced and then postponed in recent years.
Regional radio station MDR reported that the company will start construction of a large logistics centre on an 860,000 sqm area of land in Stegelitz, between Leipzig and Magdeburg, within the next six weeks. The company already gained building permission one year ago but construction was delayed due to complex technical preparations for the logistics centre, MDR reported.
Red Parcel owner Walter Hellmich told the radio station that the company would make the logistics centre into its hub for distribution across Germany and to neighbouring European markets. Operations would start in mid-2009, creating about 260 jobs, he said.
In the past, Hellmich, head of the Hellmich construction group, has said that the start-up B2B parcels company would build about four logistics centres, operate a fleet of up to 800 delivery vans and aimed to carry about 35 million parcels a year. The company originally planned to launch in 2007 but has repeatedly postponed its market entry, leaving observers sceptical about its plans.
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