Palletways has completed the process of joining up the domestic IT systems across all the European countries served by the company’s networks, making it the first pallet network to offer a truly integrated delivery service to a vast European marketplace.
Read MoreAfter two and half years of construction, UPS has opened a greatly expanded, more automated package sorting hub in Europe that will accommodate the shipping needs of its growing customer base for years to come. The expanded facility, located at the Cologne/Bonn Airport, almost doubles the original hub’s sorting capacity to 110,000 packages per hour, or more than 30 packages per second. Much of that increase in speed has been accomplished through the deployment of new automation technology, making the hub the most advanced as well as the largest facility of its type in Europe. “UPS continues to experience strong growth in Europe and this facility will ensure we are able to provide our customers with reliable, global distribution solutions,” said Wolfgang Flick, president, UPS Europe. “The investment is part of a long-term strategy to help customers compete and succeed in the key trading lanes within Europe and linking Europe to North America and Asia.”
Read MoreDHL has begun operating aircraft out of Leipzig in eastern Germany, two years before the airport becomes fully operational as its main European hub. Five aircraft have been switched from Berlin to the new facility, with five more due to call at Leipzig later this year to serve eastern Europe. DHL is investing EUR300m in Leipzig, which is expected to handle 2,000 tonnes of freight a day at maximum capacity. From 2008, 60-70 aircraft movements through Leipzig are expected every night. Peter Kruse, CEO of DHL said: “Not all [European] aircraft will need to go to Leipzig; our existing hub in Brussels will still be operational as a smaller gateway serving the Benelux.”
Read MoreToday UPS announces the launch of UPS Mail LogicSM, a new international mail service that allows customers to streamline their mail operations by relying on UPS’s package delivery expertise. With UPS Mail Logic, businesses can simply gather their international letters, flats or packets into one parcel – no sorting by destination, metering or stamping necessary. Customers arrange for UPS pick-up along with any other small packages ready for delivery. UPS then transports the international mail to well-respected postal service entities that sort and ship the mail to the destination postal authority or other licensed party for final delivery. The launch follows a successful Mail Logic pilot programme initiated in the UK in January 2005. The success of the seven month programme, which was made available to businesses of all sizes, has prompted UPS to roll out the new service first to The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France, with additional European markets to follow.
Read MoreVer.di, the gigantic services sector labour union, wants wage increases of up to 4.5 percent for employees at Deutsche Post, the semi-privatised German postal service, Ver.di board member Rolf Buettner said in a newspaper interview published Monday. The union would be demanding wage increases of 3.5-4.5 percent for the transport sector as a whole, Buettner told the daily Die Welt.
“And I’ll recommend Deutsche Post employees to set their demand at the top end of this range in the 2006 wage round,” the Ver.di official said.
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