Tag: International

DHL opens new Korea service centre

Posted by | Dec 18, 2007 | |

DHL Express Korea officially opened its service centre in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, allowing it to strengthen the logistics network in the region.

The Suwon Service Centre in Youngtong-gu, Woncheon-dong, is part of the company’s plans to improve its domestic network infrastructure to provide more efficient services.

DHL Express Korea has been steadily investing in the local market for the past few years, opening ten new and renovated service centers in the past two years. The centres are part of DHL’s strategy to strengthen its leading position in Korea’s express and logistics market.

Alan Cassels, country manager of DHL Express Korea, said the new DHL service center in Suwon allowed the company to further strengthen service capacity, particularly in support of major exporters, providing better and faster services to customers with even greater efficiency.

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UPS names Romaine Seguin as new VP of Operations

Posted by | Dec 18, 2007 | |

Romaine Seguin, a 24-year veteran of and a native of Missouri, has been named the Vice President of Operations for the company’s South Europe District. In her new role, Seguin will be responsible for small package shipments throughout Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, the Balkans, the Middle East and the entire African continent.

Seguin started her UPS career in the Missouri District in 1983 as a part-time Hub Supervisor. She held a variety of staff and operational assignments in Missouri and was later promoted to Manager.

In 1989, Seguin accepted a five-year assignment to Europe as part of an integration team as UPS expanded its operations there, residing in the UK and France. Since then, she has held a variety of management positions throughout the UPS organization, including promotion to Gulf South District Manager in 2001 and Minnesota District Manager in 2004.

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DHL ready to deliver for national children's charity drive (U.S.)

Posted by | Dec 18, 2007 | |

This month, DHL is kicking off its support for Variety, a multi-million dollar philanthropic organization that assists children with disabilities through the efforts of volunteers, corporate contributors and local business men and women. DHL will be delivering heart-shaped pins to thousands of movie theaters around the country for the Gold Heart Pin Campaign, Variety’s signature fundraising endeavor, with in-theater sales of the pins benefiting children with special needs.

Running through March 2008, the Gold Heart Pin Campaign is a unique partnership between Variety, DHL, and the motion picture industry that raises approximately $2 million annually for children across the U.S.

This year, Variety celebrates 80 years of helping children in communities around the country who need it most by providing funding and allowing millions of children with disabilities greater freedom and opportunities. Variety raises money through local chapters that focus on support for children in their communities, as well as “Variety Kids on the Go!”, a durable medical equipment grant program.

DHL has also provided shipping support for Variety’s Lifeline division, which offers urgent medical care to children in developing countries around the world.

DHL supports a variety of corporate citizenship initiatives – from disaster relief efforts, to children’s health needs and special programs. DHL employee groups and DHL airline partners around the country are participating in local toy drives and food drives this holiday season. In cities across the U.S., DHL employees are also working with America’s Second Harvest to collect and deliver donations that benefit the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States.

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DHL Express France to delivery winter clothes

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL Express France said it will again provide express delivery of winter clothes and skiing equipment to retail outlets in France and Europe this year, including international shipments for skiing equipment manufacturer Eider.

From now on until the end of March, DHL teams will handle more than 100,000 parcels amounting to 1,300 tonnes and deliver them to the summits of more than 90 major mountain resort areas in France as well as to big European cities.

In extreme winter and difficult traffic conditions, the DHL Express teams of Annecy, Chambéry, Voreppe, Grenoble and Besancon will handle volumes that could be more than 60 pct higher than normal business. DHL said it will support its clients by recruiting additional staff, providing additional vehicles, adapted routes and longer opening hours.

The biggest manufacturers of winter sports equipment like Rossignol, Dynastar and Eider rely on this service, DHL said. This winter, Eider has chosen DHL France for international express delivery of its sports equipment and winter clothes to European stores in 48/72 hours. DHL Express teams from Annecy and Besancon will deliver more than one tonne of winter clothes and skiing equipment for Eider, picking up the goods at its production site to transport them via lorries to English, Belgian, Spanish, Swiss, Italian, Dutch and Austrian retail outlets.

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DHL gives Transmile chance to rebuild reputation

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

DHL is maintaining its business relationship with loss-making Transmile Group Bhd, which was hit by massive accounting irregularities, and wants to give it a chance to turn around and rebuild its reputation.

DHL Asia Pacific chief executive officer Daniel McHugh said the leading courier services provider still has a “good, open relationship” with Transmile, and was in talks weekly on the challenges both companies faced. “Discussions go on every week with Transmile on how we operate our network, and how they operate their network.”

McHugh said DHL had a long-term business relationship with Transmile and it was willing to give the latter a second chance to rebuild its reputation, as it had done so with US-based Northwest Airlines.

Transmile plunged into the red and it had to restate its financial accounts after massive accounting irregularities were revealed this year.

Transmile provides express air cargo service to DHL, its single largest customer. It has said that DHL is expected to contribute almost half of its revenue from July 2007 to June 2008.

McHugh added Transmile was a component of DHL’s global aviation strategy by operating in multiple sectors in Asia. For instance, it undertook short haul flights, including the Bangkok-Singapore, Singapore-Jakarta and Beijing-Hong Kong routes.

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