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Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. Begins Operations between Japan’s Kansai International Airport and Chicago O’Hare
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. announced that Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. (Polar) will begin service into Osaka’s Kansai International Airport from Chicago O’Hare International Airport, effective February 21, 2008. Polar will operate five times weekly between Chicago and Osaka using B747-400 freighter equipment. This new service will also provide connections from Osaka to Shanghai, as well as connecting Osaka with Polar’s U.S. destinations and the fast growing South American region.
Osaka has become an important Asian hub, with approximately 500 weekly flights to Asia, 70 weekly flights to Europe and the Middle East, and 40 weekly flights to North America. Now offering the benefit of 24-hour service and a newly-opened second runway, Osaka offers Polar efficiency and convenience as it continues to build its operations in Asia.
Polar announced it would expand its operations in Japan following the conclusion of the U.S.-Japan bilateral civil aviation negotiations in September. In addition to its existing five frequencies to Tokyo with service beyond to Seoul, South Korea, Polar was granted another six frequencies to Japan, excluding Tokyo, and the right to fly beyond this new point in Japan to two points. In this, Polar was given latitude in choosing the new destination in Japan, as well as the two points outside of the country. Polar chose to commence service into Osaka with Shanghai selected as the beyond point.
Read MoreUPS expanding global service in wake of US economic downturn
United Parcel Service (UPS) is expanding an international air-freight service that guarantees delivery dates in the wake of a slowing US economy, the Toronto Star reports.
The UPS Express Freight service will more than triple the amount of express lanes currently served, UPS officials said.
The service, which now reaches 52 countries, is designed to provide guaranteed time-definite, overnight-to-three day door-to-door delivery including routine customs clearance to major global metropolitan areas.
UPS has been boosting international revenue at a faster rate than in the US, where the economic expansion is waning, according to the Toronto Star. The report said UPS international operations accounted for 28 pct of the company’s total revenue in 2006.
time:matters takeover of express specialists JNE Netherlands
time:matters is continuing its strategy of internationalization with its acquisition of JNE
the takeover ensures representation in a market with attractive potentials for development
Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt am Main / Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 9 January 2008 –
time:matters, the special service provider which is part of the Lufthansa Group and provides courier, sameday and emergency logistics, is continuing its strategy of internationalization: with effect from 1 January 2008 time:matters took over the Dutch express logistics provider, JNE.
In concrete terms the transaction, for which secrecy was agreed with regard to its financial volume, is presented in such a way that with the New Year 100 per cent of the shares of JNE Netherlands BV were transferred to time:matters Holding GmbH. As a result of the acquisition the founder and former owner of JNE, Ben Hofs, was appointed managing director of the new Dutch time:matters subsidiary. He is assisted by the co-managing director, Dr Arne Schulke, the chief financial officer of the German time:matters Holding. All the employees of JNE have been taken over by the new company.
JNE and time:matters combine an optimal “Strategic & Cultural Fit”: “The strategic company alignment is virtually congruous: both companies operate in a very businesslike way and are defined by strong customer orientation; the portfolio of services complement each other in a truly ideal way”, Franz-Joseph Miller, the chief executive officer of time:matters stated.
Read MorePostal industry minimum wage to cost PIN Group up to 45 mln eur in 2008
The minimum wage to be brought into the postal industry, which was approved by Germany’s upper house in December, will cost PIN Group up to 45 mln eur in 2008, Chief Executive Horst Piepenburg told Die Zeit.
‘As a result of the minimum wage, costs of the PIN Group in 2008 will rise by 35-45 mln eur,’ he said.
Most of the costs are expected to be covered by a form of state reimbursement, he said.
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