Tag: International

DHL expands global network and operations with new state-of-the-art European air hub

Posted by | May 26, 2008 | |

DHL has officially opened its new European air freight hub at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany. The hub, one of Europe’s largest construction sites, expands DHL’s international network, providing greater connectivity to global growth markets and enabling DHL to improve its overall customer service.

Approximately 300 million Euros has been invested by Deutsche Post World Net in the construction of the DHL air freight hub Leipzig/Halle which enhances DHL’s speed, connectivity and reach in a number of ways. It is situated at a crossroads to provide direct North-South and East-West access to Europe, and connects both established and emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia.

The decisive criteria for the choice of location were the position of the airport, its proximity to growth markets in Eastern Europe, the long-term planning security with comprehensive authorization for night-time flights, the wealth of motivated and highly qualified locally-based personnel, and impressive infrastructure which allows for a future-oriented combination of the carriers air, road and rail.

The hub comprises of a distribution center, an aircraft hangar, apron, tank station and administration building. The amount of freight transshipped every working day is currently around 1,500 tons per night but by 2012 this figure is set to rise to 2,000 tons.

Leipzig is the first DHL facility able to meet its needs for electricity, heating and cooling energy, to a large extent self-sufficiently. This is ensured by a cogeneration unit for combined heat and power generation, together with 1,000 square meters of solar cells on the roof of the hangar workshop for the generation of electricity from solar energy. In addition, two underground cisterns, with a capacity of 300 cubic meters each collecting around 3,000 cubic meters of rain water each year, will be used instead of drinking water to wash the aircraft.

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DPD to hike prices for parcel deliveries instead of parcel shops expansion

Posted by | May 23, 2008 | |

DPD has stopped the expansion of its parcel shops in Germany and is instead planning to increase prices for parcel deliveries to cope with the rising fuel costs, DPD CEO Arnold Schroven told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview this week.

In the beginning of April, the company had announced that it would continue its strategic growth by opening another 1,500 parcel shops in Germany by the end of 2008 in addition to its existing 3,000 retail outlets. Meanwhile, DPD has surprisingly changed its strategy and is now planning to invest in the development of a new express delivery service and to concentrate on its international parcels business. In both segments, the company generates considerably higher profits than in the domestic parcels business, Arnold Schroven further explained. He added that the company was under pressure as it couldn’t fully implement the price increase of 4 pct for parcel deliveries planned for this year.

In view of the rising transport costs, further increases in parcel deliveries between business clients – the company’s core service – are unavoidable from 2009, Schroven said.

From October this year, the company plans to increase the prices for a single parcel by 3 cents due to the government plans to hike truck toll fees. As a result of the price increase, Schroven expects an annual revenue growth of 50 pct in the express sector. Currently, DPD’s express division accounts only for 5 pct of the total group revenues.

Last year, the company’s sales grew more than 5 pct, exceeding EUR 1 billion revenues for the first time.

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Chronopost extends geographical coverage of delivery service (FRA)

Posted by | May 23, 2008 | |

Chronopost has extended the geographical coverage of its next-day delivery service “Chrono 10” providing next-day delivery before 10 a.m now covering all important cities and regions in France.

More than 1000 new French “communes” will be accessible with this service offered to contract customers and customers of the Chronopost online shop.

“Chrono 10” delivers parcels to all destinations nationwide from Monday to Saturday and covers 6000 communes from a total of 36000 French communes representing the last subdivision of 100 départments and 26 regions in France. The new cities covered by the extended service include Le Havre, Perpignan, Nancy, Monaco, Angers and Lorient.

“The optimisation of the coverage will strengthen our next-morning delivery service. Thus we are responding to our customers’ demands for parcel delivery in the service and industry sectors. For certain types of shipments, it is essential that the parcel arrives in the beginning of the working day”, said Chronopost CEO Christian Emery.

Founded in 1985, Chronopost is specialized in express delivery of parcels up to 30 kg to companies and private customers worldwide. In 2007, the company generated revenues of EUR 587 million. It has a nationwide network of 76 operational sites including 6 hubs and employs 3500 people.

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TNT Hungary revenue jumps 26 percent in 2007

Posted by | May 22, 2008 | |

Net revenue of the Hungarian unit of Amsterdam-based express delivery company TNT jumped 26pc in 2007 as the result of a one-off project, managing director of TNT Express Worldwide Hungary Marton Jarosi said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday. Mr Jarosi declined to reveal an absolute revenue figure.

The unit’s revenue rose well over TNT’s global revenue increase of 9.5pc in 2007.
TNT Express Worldwide Hungary spent a little more than HUF 300m on developments last year, including HUF 120m to build a 1,200-square-metre logistics centre in Szombathely, near Hungary’s border with Austria. The centre is the unit’s third in Hungary. TNT Express Worldwide Hungary also spent HUF 55m to upgrade its IT system and HUF 128bn on other infrastructure investments.

This year the unit plans to spend HUF 310m on investments, including HUF 83m on IT developments. Mr Jarosi said TNT is market leader on Hungary’s HUF 20bn a year express delivery market. The unit employs a staff of 459.

1.00 USD=155.313 HUF

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Philippines to ask UPS to retain some operations after moving hub

Posted by | May 22, 2008 | |

The Philippine government will ask United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) to retain some operations in the country after the U.S. logistics giant announced it was relocating to southern China, President Gloria Arroyo’s spokeswoman said Thursday.

UPS on Wednesday announced the planned transfer of its hub to a more centrally located USD 180-million facility to be built at Shenzen airport.

It said the move would place UPS closer to the center of the region’s economic activity and would improve customer service by reducing transit times across Asia.

The announcement represents a blow to the Philippines, which also faces a possible exit by Intel Corp., the world’s top chipmaker, from its second offshore assembly operations center in Asia.

Arroyo spokesman Lorelei Fajardo told reporters that the authorities at the Clark airport, where UPS had built its USD 300-million intra-Asia hub in 2002, were in talks with the U.S. company’s representatives to explore alternatives to its planned downsizing.

UPS said on Wednesday that it was “exploring placing alternative operations” at its Clark hub, located north of Manila, which it said would “continue to be a strategic location for UPS’s multi-hub network in Asia.”

Staff and flights would be reduced, company officials said, but they didn’t elaborate on the other alternatives.

Fajardo said the Clark International Airport Authority asked UPS to reorient the facility to provide systems patterned after its facilities in Louisville, Kentucky.

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