Tag: International

Wal-Mart ends merchandise flight with DHL (U.S)

Posted by | Aug 15, 2008 | |

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ended its agreement to have DHL fly Wal-Mart merchandise nightly from Fayetteville, Ark., shortly after DHL’s May 28 announcement that it intended to hire United Parcel Service for its U.S. cargo airlift work, according to a pilot who flew the route for ASTAR Air Cargo, a DHL contractor.
The flights typically carried 40,000 pounds of jewelry each night for Wal-Mart, Pebler said.
Wal-Mart quit using DHL for the flight from Fayetteville, where it has a jewelry distribution and repair center, because DHL had changed its flight route patterns in ways that didn’t serve all the locations Wal-Mart has, said Dan Fogleman, a spokesman for the retailer. Fayetteville, about 30 miles from Wal-Mart’s corporate office in Bentonville, Ark., was among the areas affected by the DHL route changes, Fogleman said.
Fogleman declined to say how much additional business Wal-Mart does with DHL, or whether the retailer has shifted any of its shipping business to DHL competitors UPS or Federal Express.
DHL declined to discuss its business with Wal-Mart.

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CitySprint's Leeds ServiceCentre Moves to New Premises

Posted by | Aug 15, 2008 | |

CitySprint has relocated its Leeds ServiceCentre to larger premises in line with increasing demand in the area. The new ServiceCentre is located at Unit 18, Enterprise Park Industrial Estate, Old Lane, Moorhouse Avenue, Beeston, Leeds, LS11 8HA.

In addition to its Leeds ServiceCentre CitySprint has a network of 30+ ServiceCentres across the UK. This cross-country coverage is unique in the courier industry and enables CitySprint to provide a truly national or local service like no other same day courier company. Through its network of regional ServiceCentres and ServiceCentre based customer services teams CitySprint is able to provide its clients with local knowledge and expertise, regardless of where they might be based. CitySprint’s clients also enjoy the personal relationships they are able to develop with account managers and ServiceCentre staff at their local ServiceCentre. They can feel confident that if there is ever an issue, or if they simply want to discuss their job, they know they can pick up the phone and have a real person to speak to.

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Nightfreight launches pay-as-you-go logistics

Posted by | Aug 15, 2008 | |

West Midlands-based Nightfreight has begun a pay-as-you-go home delivery service, offering retailers transport savings of up to 50 pct. Targeted at distributors and retailers that have their own fleets, the service will be managed through Nightfreight’s Deliver2Hometeam. The group cites not having to pay for a fixed and rigid contract as the main benefit of the scheme.

Up to 50 pct can be saved on transport costs with the new variable charging system, in which customers pay for the actual number of deliveries required. Currently 50 HGVs and 110 staff are involved.

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DHL expands within SAARC region

Posted by | Aug 13, 2008 | |

DHL is looking at expanding its business within the SAARC region (South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation) with an integrated product portfolio that will bolster transportation and trade between SAARC nations.
DHL is the first logistics player to foray into the SAARC segment and plans to service the estimated 120 pound Express market share in the region.
This set of innovative logistics solutions will help in quicker transit times, better customer service through online track and trace, one invoice, door-to-door delivery and special SAARC zone pricing.
These services use DHL’s enhanced infrastructural support to gain direct connections to key SAARC destinations – Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
It has been observed that trade can significantly increase once trade barriers are lifted. According to an AT Kearney study in 2007, with implementation of NAFTA, ASEAN EU in 2003, trade grew significantly by 44 pct, 49 pct & 63pct respectively since implementation.

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DHL Express Singapore Renames Product Portfolio to Reflect Time Specific Services

Posted by | Aug 12, 2008 | |

DHL announced that it has completed an across-the-board portfolio renaming of its best-in-class products in Singapore. The renaming exercise is part of the global alignment of product portfolio which began in more than 220 countries and territories serviced by DHL’s global network in January 2008, and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Its completion has enabled DHL Express Singapore to harmonize a variety of product names to a single set of standard, logical and easy-to-understand names that aids recall and helps customers to select the products that best meet their express shipping needs.

The new names reflect the time specific nature of shipments to their destinations. By offering products based on a logical system of time-definite and day-definite choices, customers can now choose product services that offer flexibility and reliability based on speed, destinations and weights.

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