Tag: Germany

DHL to seal ties with India Post

Posted by | Aug 24, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post is looking at developing a strategic partnership with the Indian postal system.

Through this venture, both postal authorities are aiming at strengthening their global business operations. The entities are in early stages of discussions to ascertain specific segments, like last mile delivery, sharing infrastructural facility & technological innovations in which they could strike a partnership and initiate operations.

According to sources close to the development, with this strategic partnership, DHL will leverage India Post’s vast infrastructural facility, almost 150,00 post offices spread all over India, for their last mile delivery operations and increasing its market penetration. India Post, on the other hand, will be looking at benefiting from the superior technical expertise of DHL in handling logistics operations. The final structure of the relationship, though, is yet to be finalized.

DHL, along with its 81 pct stake in the Indian air express company Blue Dart, already has a huge footprint in India in the express logistics and freight forwarding segment, though, limited to semi-urban and urban areas.

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New ‘high speed’ In-bound European Logistics Service from Business Direct

Posted by | Aug 23, 2007 | |

Business Direct Group plc. has set up a subsidiary company in Germany in advance of the launch of a dedicated inbound European ‘high speed’ through the night logistics service into the UK.
Business Direct GmbH has already opened an office at the local airport Niederrhein Weeze on the Dutch-German border for the 5 times a week nightly air bridge service into Coventry airport in the UK. Negotiations are at an advanced stage for a dedicated charter aircraft ready for the launch of the new service that cannot be achieved using scheduled services.
The new ‘high speed’ through the night service offers, computer, electronics and materials handling manufacturers with European-based distribution centers very late cut off times of 8pm for pick up and delivery into the UK before 8am the next morning. Niederrhein has been chosen as the European hub of this new through the night service as its location is near several hundred major distribution centres in Holland and North Western Germany and provides a straightforward collection opportunity.
Business Direct’s inbound European air service provides a completely seamless service linking directly in to its national network of over 300 Parcel Exchange facilities throughout the UK, in-boot service and next day technical courier services or direct into the manufacturer’s parts dealerships.
The other major advantage of this through the night service is that it will enable major suppliers of spare parts into the UK from central stocks in Europe to eliminate the need to hold stocks in the UK and therefore significantly reduce inventory, warehousing and distribution costs.

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German postal workers may win minimum wage

Posted by | Aug 21, 2007 | |

German postal workers may be subject to a minimum wage from early next year after the ruling coalition parties reached a late-night deal to extend basic pay levels, Labor Minister Franz Muentefering said.
Muentefering said he expects postal services employers and the Ver.di labor union to agree this year on a minimum wage, a precondition for the government to make the pay level binding for postal workers across the country as a whole.
A statutory minimum wage may be good news for Deutsche Post AG, Europe’s biggest postal service, as it prepares for the end of its letter-delivery monopoly, its most profitable business, on Jan. 1. The company has forecast domestic competition will trim earnings at its mail division by as much as 20 percent by 2009. Minimum wage regulations would also apply to competitors such as Pin AG.
“The postal monopoly will be phased out, that can’t be changed, but we’ll introduce a minimum wage and that’s something we can get done this autumn,” Muentefering said.

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DHL delivers help to earthquake victims in Peru

Posted by | Aug 21, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post World Net has joined the international relief effort to help victims of the earthquake disaster in Peru. The DHL Disaster Response Team (DRT) for the Americas region is supporting the National Civil Defense Institute at the Pisco Air Force Base with its logistics know-how. The city of Pisco, 250 kilometers south of Peru’s capital Lima, is located in the region that is severely affected by the earthquake. DHL in 2005 entered into a humanitarian partnership with OCHA, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to improve disaster response. Deutsche Post World Net Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Klaus Zumwinkel: “This is part of our corporate social responsibility program.”

The DRT Americas, based in South Florida, and DRT Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, were both set up last year. A third DRT for the region Middle East and Africa is planned for this year so that DHL will be able to offer its humanitarian support worldwide. The DRTs, whose services are provided, free of charge, each draw on a pool of about 80 DHL employees. Up to 15 DHL expert volunteers are on the scene at any one time.

In recent years, DHL and its employees have gained extensive experience in disaster relief management and are able to react quickly and in a professional manner to sudden natural disasters. The company has already used its transport and logistics skills as part of relief efforts launched after the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean, Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region and the earthquake in northern Pakistan. DHL for years has been active in the countries it does business in to live up to its social responsibility standards.

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GO! Express & Logistics grows at double-digit rates in H1, 2007

Posted by | Aug 21, 2007 | |

German express company GO! Express & Logistics said it increased its overnight shipments by 13 pct and transported volumes by almost 20 pct in the first half of 2007.

GO! said that it is demonstrating its performance ability through considerable investments and is also establishing GO! Stations in Europe to expand its services. In total, 1,400 employees and 3,000 couriers are employed in more than 100 GO! stations in Germany and Europe to serve about 70,000 customers.

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