Tag: International

FedEx Express UK celebrates 35 years of service

Posted by | Apr 17, 2008 | |

FedEx Express is celebrating 35 years of service in the air cargo industry on 17 April 2008. In 1973, founder Fred Smith launched FedEx from an abandoned military hangar at Memphis International Airport. Since then, FedEx has risen to become a global company facilitating trade across nations and continents. FedEx has experienced many milestones along the way, including being the first express delivery company to introduce overnight shipments and to have its own fleet of aircraft.

On 17 April 1973, 14 FedEx Falcon airplanes took off carrying just 186 packages. Today FedEx Express employs approximately 141,000 employees and handles an average daily volume of more than 7.5 million shipments, with 671 aircraft and more than 44,500 vehicles servicing 220 countries in its integrated global network.

Operating in 123 countries and territories in Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Sub-Continent and Africa, FedEx has consistently been recognised by Fortune as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies, ranking sixth in 2008. The company has also been repeatedly named as a Great Place to Work and trusted employer throughout Europe and ranked in the top 50 companies in the UK.

In 2007 FedEx Express in the UK announced the launch of an express freighter flight directly linking Manchester to Memphis in the U.S. The service increased daily capacity from the UK to the US by 50 per cent and added up to 20 per cent daily capacity from Europe to the US. This flexibility to adapt to new circumstances that comes with each new challenge is possible thanks to the wide variety of services offered by FedEx worldwide.

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TNT unions to strike next week over labour talks

Posted by | Apr 16, 2008 | |

Trade unions at TNT NV will step up the pressure on the Dutch mail company with one-day strikes next week to back their demand for a 3.5 percent wage rise, a union leader said.

“Workers in The Hague will go on strike on Wednesday and workers in Amsterdam on Friday,” union director Anneke Stevens told Reuters.

She said this will be followed by industrial action in the different areas, culminating in a countrywide strike on May 27.

TNT, Europe’s second-largest mail company, said its workers are paid 20 to 25 percent more than market rates and has offered a 1.5 percent wage increase retroactive to April 1.

It had originally sought a pay freeze, seeking to cut costs and compete better with rivals. It is targeting cost savings of 395 million euros (USD 625.3 million) between 2007 and 2015. TNT also proposed a 1.5 percent rise on Jan. 1, 2009, conditional on changing employment conditions.

The company, which is expected to lose its monopoly in the domestic market this year, has said that without changes to employment terms, it may have to cut up to 11,000 from its Dutch workforce of 59,000.

TNT, which has steadily lost market share to rivals Sandd and Deutsche Post’s Selekt Mail, earlier on Wednesday urged unions to continue labour talks. Unions had set an April 16 deadline for the company to meet their demands.

It said the issue was not the salary levels but rather clarity on a future collective labour agreement that is in line with the market.

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DHL opens a new office in Murmansk

Posted by | Apr 16, 2008 | |

On the 6th of April DHL is opening its new office in Murmansk. The North-West of Russia occupies a special position on the country both in terms of economics and geography, representing a major point of interest for DHL to further develop its infrastructure. The opening of the new office will allow DHL to lay a strong foundation for the further improvement in the company’ s level of service to meet the increasing demand of customers in the Murmansk area.

Within the past few years, the North-West region has enjoyed extensive growth in shipment volumes. The number of customers has also increased. ‘The business situation in Murmansk and the Murmansk region requires us to provide the highest level of service’, says Daniel Kearvell, Area Manager DHL West Russia. ‘We opened our first office in Murmansk in 1996. Since that time our volumes have increased several times and we saw the necessity to open a new, modern office in Murmansk that could reflect our passion for quality and service excellence’.

The new office is equipped with a modern multi-channel telephone station that allows DHL customer service agents to answer all incoming customer enquiries with a 100 pct service level. An increased number of courier routes have made it possible to add an extra flight to Moscow and to serve various remote destinations in the Murmansk regions with DHL’s own resources.

DHL customers in Murmansk can take advantage of International and Domestic Time Definite and Day Definite deliveries across Russia and the world.

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US: Tax rebate leads more to file returns

Posted by | Apr 15, 2008 | |

Internal Revenue Service representatives said Monday 14th April they were expecting an increase in the number of tax returns filed this year.

The rise is due largely to an extra incentive — being one of the 130 million Americans expected to receive a federally funded rebate intended to encourage increased spending and stimulate the nation’s economy.

The IRS will use tax returns to determine eligibility and assess the amount a person receives, with single filers getting up to USD 600, and couples up to USD 1,200, plus USD 300 per dependent child.

Increased volume this time of year is nothing new for the U.S. Postal Service, which expects to handle around 59 million federal tax returns this year, or 43 percent of all individual returns filed.

Despite the increase of electronic filing in recent years, this year’s overall rise in filings is expected to also raise the number of mailed returns over last year by 3 percent, according to Tim Ratliff, postal service spokesman for the Northern Illinois district.

“Obviously, there is an increase of people filing electronically for all sorts of reasons,” he said. “At the same time, there is still a huge percentage of people that still depend on the postal service to mail their tax returns.”

And as in the past, Ratliff encourages people to file as early as possible but said the postal service has managed to adapt in order to accommodate one of the more exasperating traits in human nature.

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Deutsche Post and Fedex talks on U.S. express partnership deal fail

Posted by | Apr 15, 2008 | |

Talks between Deutsche Post World Net AG. and Fedex Corp. on a strategic partnership in the U.S. express market have collapsed, Handelsblatt reported.

‘Talks with Fedex on a cooperation have fizzled out,’ the report quoted Axel Funhoff, analyst at Dutch Bank ING Groep N.V. as saying, attributing his information to sources close to the companies.

Deutsche Post’s DHL express operations in the United States have posted unspecified losses since the German mail services company entered the market in 2004.

Chief executive Frank Appel in a recent interview said the company is in talks with potential partners but said Deutsche Post is not dependent on finding a partner.

The report said a spokeswoman for Deutsche Post declined to comment on the matter.

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