Tag: International

TNT aims for regional logistics hub in Thailand

Posted by | Apr 21, 2008 | |

TNT Express is aiming to be the logistics gateway for the Greater Mekong region now that it has completed its huge depot in Rangsit, Pathum Thani.
The 3,465-square-metre depot will officially open next month, said Alan Miu, TNT’s Thailand country manager.
The depot will serve as its distribution centre and link with 26 outlets nationwide to tap into double-digit demand growth.
The network’s coverage area includes southern China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, the countries through which the Mekong River travels.
The logistics network in the Greater Mekong is a part of sub-regional pact to connect transport routes running through China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
The company said its logistics facilities across Asia would help its network link more than 120 cities with a full range of logistics services in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and China.
Thailand has strong potential as it serves as a production base for various industries such as automobiles, electronics and medical care.
Mr Miu said the new depot was one of the group’s major investment projects in Asia; it has a total budget of 100 million euros to spend from 2008 to 2012.
The budget will be used for expansion of its air express fleet, trucks and depots. Logistics networks in Thailand also cover the group’s time-critical express delivery service, which offers services for goods that require rush delivery.

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TNT tops Royal Mail on branding

Posted by | Apr 21, 2008 | |

TNT has been classed a Business Superbrand ahead of rival Royal Mail in a recent YouGov survey of the UK’s strongest B2B brands for 2008.

The survey was commissioned by Business Superbrands UK Ltd and canvassed the views of more than 1500 business professionals. Within the list of top 500 brands, TNT is ranked 118, 22 places ahead of Royal Mail, its leading competitor in the UK postal market.

The announcement comes as TNT Post, celebrates its fourth anniversary of becoming a downsteam access provider in the UK mail market. Since signing the agreement in April 2004, TNT Post has made great strides in its mailing proposition for UK businesses. In the last 12 months, TNT Post’s downstream access business has experienced more than a 60 per cent growth in its mailing volumes and the company now delivers an average of 160 million items a month. With its broad range of services, TNT Post enables both businesses large and small to benefit from the high quality and innovative services that competition has brought to the postal market.

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Deutsche Post: ver.di rejects very good offer

Posted by | Apr 19, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post made ver.di a very attractive offer, according to which dismissals protection would be extended to June 30, 2011 and contractual employees’ wages would be increased by around 5.5 percent over the next two years.

In return, employees’ working hours would be moderately increased. That means that employees would work an extra half hour each week, or six minutes more each day. Civil servants will work 40 hours a week instead of 41 in the future, that’s one hour less than is usual for German federal civil servants and has been in force at Deutsche Post since April 1st ver.di rejected this offer.

Walter Scheurle, Board Member, Personnel, commented: “Whoever rejects 39 months of dismissals protection and a reasonable salary increase in exchange for a working-hours increase of six minutes per day, definitely does not represent the interest of our employees.”

Deutsche Post emphasized its readiness to continue with the employment pact and thus its commitment to job security as well as to a salary increase that is attractive to employees, but at the same time economically viable. This precludes that the social partner is prepared to discuss an increase in working hours.

According to the assessment of Deutsche Post, job security assurance and the proposed salary increase correspond to the paramount interests of employees. The stubborn attitude of ver.di in regard to the working hours issue is obviously based more on dogmatism and in strategic and image goals than anything else.

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Omega United Acquires SkyPostal, Inc.

Posted by | Apr 18, 2008 | |

Omega United, Inc. has acquired SkyPostal, Inc., in a move to change its corporate strategy and direction. Omega will cease its previous business activities and file to change its name to SkyPostal Networks, Inc.

“Going public through this merger is the next step in our evolution, as SkyPostal strives to become the dominant mail distribution company in Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico (‘LAC’),” stated Albert P. Hernandez, SkyPostal’s President and CEO. Mr. Hernandez went on to say, “We are now in a position to implement an aggressive growth strategy that features internal growth as well as growth through the acquisition of key postal delivery companies within the region. The highly fragmented postal delivery industry in the LAC region is ripe for consolidation and offers economies of scale related to cost reduction and the elimination of redundant services. The market is ideal for the application of current technologies, standardization of operating systems and the region-wide development of the SkyPostal brand.”

SkyPostal is one of the largest facilitators of mail delivery from Europe and the US into LAC, for major European postal administrations and the leading mail consolidators, delivering more than 150 tons of mail per month into the region. The Company has exclusive agreements in place with over 20 major private postal services in 20 different countries throughout the LAC region for the delivery of commercial mail, periodicals and parcel post.

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Deutsche Post's DHL struggles with delays new Leipzig hub

Posted by | Apr 18, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG’s express unit, DHL, is struggling with delays at its new cargo hub in Leipzig, Die Welt reported, citing pilots’ comments in internet forums.
The newspaper quoted a spokesman for the German mail services company as saying everything is going according to plan.
Deutsche Post plans to inaugurate the 300 million euro Leipzig hub, its third global hub after Hong Kong and Wilmington, United States, officially on May 26.
The report said pilots have claimed that ground staff at the new hub has not yet been sufficiently trained.
It alleged some flights have been redirected to Brussels, DHL’s previous hub.
The start-up of DHL’s Wilmington hub was delayed by several months, putting pressure on the start of Deutsche Post’s U.S. express operations, which have posted unspecified losses since the company entered the market in 2004.

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