Deutsche Post World Net AG’s express mail unit DHL will begin construction this month on a new logistics centre in Staufenberg, central Germany, for 44 mln eur, a spokesman for the company said.
About 300 employees will work in the new facility.
Read MoreGerman postal services company Deutsche Post AG is likely to keep its current number of outlets throughout the country after the German letter delivery sector liberalisation in 2008, Deutsche Post’s CEO Klaus Zumwinkel said on June 6, 2005.
Currently, Deutsche Post maintains a network of nearly 12,500 outlets in Germany. Zumwinkel expressed confidence that the current collective labour agreement, which expires in 2008, will be renegotiated. He added that the company has so far managed to avoid layoffs, and will stick to the strategy in the future.
Read MoreOne of the biggest rebranding exercises undertaken in the transport sector is under way to coincide with the Lions rugby tour.
Express Couriers, the joint venture formed between Deutsche Post-owned DHL and New Zealand Post’s courier business, is adopting the DHL yellow but keeping the CourierPost, Pace and Contract Logistics brands. The Skyroad Express courier brand is being rolled into the CourierPost brand.
The rebranding involves ordering 2500 polo shirts, 900 shorts, 900 vests, 900 polar fleeces and 900 track pants and painting 750 vans and 40 trucks.
Courier Express chief executive Jim Quinn did not say how much the bill b was, but he said the rebranding was always contemplated when the joint venture was set up, and its execution deliberately coincided with the Lions tour.
DHL’s profile is raised during the tour as it is a sponsor.
Read MoreGlobal express and logistics company DHL, a unit of German post operator Deutsche Post AG, has signed an agreement with German carmaker BMW to handle its supplies, DHL said on June 1, 2005.
DHL has been handling supplies to BMW’s 14 production sites in Germany, Austria and the UK since March 2005.
Under the agreement, DHL will deliver materials from BMW’s 1,800 suppliers in 18 countries to the carmaker’s plants and will subsequently return all multiple-use containers to the suppliers.
This is the first time when a vehicle producer has transferred its entire volume of parts to the transportation network of a single service provider, DHL said.
Read MoreNearly two years ago, a surface-to-air missile slammed into a DHL cargo plane as it took off from Baghdad en route to Bahrain with a load of U.S. military mail.
The aircraft landed safely, albeit minus a wing, but the incident was enough to provoke DHL officials to discuss whether it was too hazardous to continue as the G.I. postal service.
Nearly two years ago, a surface-to-air missile slammed into a DHL cargo plane as it took off from Baghdad en route to Bahrain with a load of U.S. military mail.
“It put huge pressure on us as a company to determine what is reasonable risk,” DHL Express Joint Chief Executive John Mullen told the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.
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