Tag: Germany

Claude Béglé to join DHL Express

Posted by | Oct 4, 2005 | |

Claude Béglé will be joining DHL, the global market leader in express and logistics, after having spent several years successfully building an international network and managing the Geopost International Division. He has been a Board Member of the Geopost group since 1999 and the Chairman of the European DPD organisation. Both Geopost and DPD are subsidiaries of the French La Poste. Béglé, 56, will assume the role of Chief Operating Officer for DHL Express Germany and will also be Managing Director DHL Express Central Europe, responsible for Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. In his new position, Claude Béglé will report to Peter E. Kruse, Management Board member of Deutsche Post World Net and CEO of DHL Express Europe.

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Germany’s Fiege eyes acquisitions in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, France

Posted by | Sep 29, 2005 | |

German logistics company Fiege is eyeing acquisitions in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and France, Handelsblatt newspaper said, citing Heinz Fiege, managing director of the company. ‘We are already targeting several companies and want to invest a total of about 300 mln eur,’ Fiege said. The company also hopes to win new customers following Deutsche Post AG’s planned takeover of Exel PLC.

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UPS finds favour with German logistics managers

Posted by | Sep 28, 2005 | |

United Parcel Service, the US parcel forwarding company, enjoys the most favourable image among logistics service providers on the German market, according to the annual survey by the market research institute Emnid involving 300 logistics managers. The German shipping and logistics company Hapag-Lloyd Container Line ranks second, while Lufthansa Cargo, the freight arm of the airline group Deutsche Lufthansa, ranks third. They are followed by DPD Deutscher Paketdienst, which belongs to the French group La Poste, US group Federal Express (Fedex) and Hermes, a subsidiary of the German mail order group Otto. DHL, the German market leader, ranks only 11th with a verdict of ‘average’.

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DHL’s hub shift to Leipzig/Halle Airport is official

Posted by | Sep 27, 2005 | |

The contract for the establishment at Leipzig/Halle Airport of the European airfreight hub to be operated by DHL was signed on September 21, 2005, marking the ratification of the agreement to relocate the DHL hub to Leipzig/Halle.
The conclusion of the contract will allow the Central German airport to become one of the most significant freight nodal points in Europe. From 2008, some fifty DHL freight aircraft will be using Leipzig/Halle as their hub base every day, in order for up to 2,000 tonnes of freight to be sorted and forwarded worldwide every night. “We have concluded a good contract which will secure the growth of DHL and of the Airport, and which represents an important milestone on the way to Leipzig/Halle by DHL,” said managing director of DHL Hub Leipzig, Michael Reinboth. “This contract has established an important precondition towards the creation of the planned 3,500 jobs at DHL as the air freight hub.”

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Deutsche Post suspected by regulator of abusing dominant market position

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post AG is suspected by Germany’s Federal Networks Agency regulator of abusing its dominant market position and may face a formal investigation on the matter, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing an internal agency memo it obtained. The newspaper also wrote that numerous private mail delivery companies complained that Deutsche Post was hindering their ability to enter the market for collecting and sorting letters. A Deutsche Post spokesman denied it was hindering competition when contacted by the newspaper.

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