Tag: Germany

Deutsche Post World Net opens future lab DHL Innovation Center

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post World Net opened the DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf near Bonn today. The goal and mission of the DHL Innovation Center are to develop marketable, highly innovative products from logistics trends of the future. In addition, the laboratory of the future forms an umbrella organization for all areas of technical innovation management that the company has been exploring. The laboratory of the future plays a key role in the Group’s strategy, with which Deutsche Post World Net as the No. 1 company in the global logistics market intends to become the world’s most innovative logistics company.

The projects at the DHL Innovation Center are being conducted jointly with partners. The innovation partners from the business world include IBM, Intel and SAP. The DHL Innovation Center also maintains research partnerships with the logistics institutes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston and Zaragoza, and the German Fraunhofer institutes. About 20 permanent employees are working on innovation projects in the center. An additional 10 jobs are filled by employees from the innovation and research partners.

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Glos says Germany will stick to plans to end Deutsche Post mail monopoly

Posted by | Mar 26, 2007 | |

Economy Minister Michael Glos said Germany is sticking to its plans to end Deutsche Post AG’s monopoly on mail delivery operations by the end of this year.

Glos’ comments came amidst calls by Social Democratic politicians and trade unions to allow Deutsche Post to keep its monopoly on the grounds that other European countries have not yet made any significant moves to liberalise their own postal services.

Deutsche Post still enjoys the monopoly of delivering mails weighing less than 50 grams.

‘We need open postal markets. That is an advantage for consumers,’ he said in a speech at an international cartel conference.

Glos said the oft-touted scenario of ‘an invasion of foreign postal firms in the German market is not a realistic threat’.

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Charles Graham appointed as new Global CEO for Aviation, DHL Express

Posted by | Mar 22, 2007 | |

DHL has announced the appointment of Charles Graham as the new Global CEO for Aviation, DHL Express and as a member of the company’s Global Express Management Board. He succeeds Terry Nord, who will retire from DHL after eight successful years of managing growth for DHL’s global aviation services.

Based in Bonn, Germany, Mr. Graham will be responsible for all aspects of DHL’s aviation activities, in particular leading the strategic development of DHL’s global aviation network to both drive and support the Company’s growth plans.

Mr. Graham has had a distinguished career in the global express and aviation industry, and most recently was CEO of AWAS (formerly known as Ansett Worldwide), a position he assumed in 1997 until 2006. AWAS is one of the world’s leading aircraft leasing organizations, boasting a fleet of 180 aircraft and conducting business in some 80 countries.

Under his leadership, AWAS successfully went through significant strategic changes and growth, including the integration of the company and the former Morgan Stanley Aircraft Finance in 2000, and its eventual sale to private equity in 2006. AWAS was originally a joint cooperative venture between TNT and News Corporation before becoming an independent operating company in 1999.

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Exel acquisition lifts Deutsche Post figures

Posted by | Mar 21, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post said it boosted the sea freight business of its subsidiary DHL last year, both through the acquisition of Exel and through organic growth, writes Katrin Berkenkopf in Cologne.

‘We notched significantly increased volumes from existing business and with new customers,’ the group said.

With a volume of 2.4m teu, DHL should be the number one sea freight forwarder globally in terms of transport volume, although competitor Kuehne+Nagel is considerably larger when it comes to turnover.

The 2.4m teu contrasts with only half of that volume seen a year earlier, which demonstrates the leap ahead that the acquisition of Exel meant for DHL’s Global Forwarding business.

The growth in revenue is clearly lagging behind the volume increase, however. Sea freight turnover grew by 41% to EUR2.66bn (USD3.5bn). Deutsche Post pointed out that a dip in freight rates on high-volume routes had a negative impact on finances.

Kuehne+Nagel last week reported a seaborne transport volume of 2.3m teu and turnover of SFr8.3bn (USD6.8bn). Overall, the logistics division of Deutsche Post which includes ocean and air freight, supply chain business and land-based freight business recorded a turnover of EUR22.9bn, up from EUR9.9bn.

Acquisitions, first of all that of Exel, account for EUR11.6bn of the increase. Earnings before interest and taxes grew from EUR346m to EUR762m. Deutsche Post chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel reiterated his forecast of operating profits in logistics reaching EUR1.2bn by 2009. For the current year, he expects a rise of 15%.

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Lufthansa Cargo summer schedules: More frequencies and new destinations

Posted by | Mar 21, 2007 | |

Lufthansa Cargo is increasing its freighter frequencies to Dallas, Sao Paulo and Shanghai in the summer timetable. New destinations in the summer flight schedules are Lahore and a direct connection from Cologne through East Midlands (UK) to Wilmington (USA). Cargo customers will also benefit from changes bearing on airfreight in Lufthansa passenger services.

In the freighter timetable, Lufthansa Cargo is raising frequencies to Dallas from two to thrice weekly. Sao Paulo will be served by six flights weekly from Frankfurt. Frequencies to Shanghai will be increased from eight to nine weekly. Changes are also forthcoming in traffic days to Los Angeles. In the summer flight schedules, Los Angeles will be served twice weekly – on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Lufthansa Cargo is, moreover, operating scheduled flights in summer to and from Lahore in Pakistan. These services will be laid on ex Frankfurt, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in combination with Bangkok. New in the timetable is a direct connection from Cologne through East Midlands to Wilmington. This service will be operated within the framework of the existing intercontinental joint venture with DHL.

The summer timetable is valid from 25 March to 27 October 2007.

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