Tag: International

DHL Russia introduced an evening pick-up product

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

As of December 1, DHL has offered its customers a new ‘Evening pick-up’ product. It is now possible to hand in shipments to DHL courier even when the working time is over.

DHL Evening pick-up product is available in Moscow and St. Petersburg for downtown areas of the two cities. DHL plans to expand the service coverage in the near future to make it available to its customers across the rest of Russia.

‘We are aware just how tough the schedule of our customers can be’, says Eugenia Panfilova, Acting Commercial Manager DHL Russia. ‘For objective reasons, arranging a shipment may take much more time than expected. We strive to meet our customers’ expectations and give them extra time to prepare their shipment for the pick-up. We realize that success of a business depends greatly on the time it takes to deliver a shipment and we will do our best to ensure that our customers face no inconveniences in their day-to-day operations’, she added.

No additional paperwork is needed to order the new DHL product. The courier pick-up request is done in a standard way. To file the request for the current day, one needs to call DHL before 19:00. The shipments are picked up by the courier until 22:00.

Additionally DHL customers may arrange for various optional services such as Insurance, Proactive Tracking and Proof of Delivery. DHL customers may also benefit from a wide range of packaging materials offered by DHL as well as Remote Area Service.

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Dutch MP doubts minimum wage a problem for TNT

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

TNT has said it would lobby to delay the market liberalisation, due for January 2008, because Germany is poised to introduce a minimum wage which TNT says is too high for it to effectively compete with Deutsche Post. One of the conditions for opening the market was a level playing field with Germany.

TNT aims to compensate for an expected loss of business at home when the market is opened up by expanding abroad, and Germany and the UK are its main targets.

Mei Li Vos, responsible for postal liberalisation within the Dutch Labour party, said it was doubtful whether a minimum wage for postal workers in Germany would pose a major problem for TNT, adding she was not convinced Dutch liberalisation should be delayed over it. “As a social democrat, I find it great that there will be a minimum wage. I doubt whether that is really a problem with regards to a level playing field,” Vos told Reuters.

A delay is unlikely if Labour, part of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s centrist coalition, opposes it.

Asked if the German minimum wage was a reason to use an “emergency break” procedure to delay Dutch liberalisation, Vos said: “Not for this reason. If we are going to use it, it’s in the event that Dutch employment conditions have not been regulated well.”
Vos said, however, that no final conclusions had been reached and that parliamentarians were still looking into possible other competition problems in the German market.

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UPS To Relocate Europe Logistics Division To Brussels -Report

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

United Parcel Services Inc. (UPS) will move the headquarters for its logistics distribution division from Biel/Bienne, Switzerland to Brussels, Belgium, resulting in the transfer of 85 employees, Belgian daily L’Echo reported Monday.

The move follows the company’s decision to locate the company’s European headquarters in Brussels. The Swiss headquarters will close in May 2008.

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DHL Malaysia Launches Promotion to Beat Year-end Rush

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

DHL has launched the Beat the Rush promotion for international shipments to help customers beat the year-end holiday season rush.

The promotion offers include half-day advantage for inbound shipments, flexible pick-up times, daily uplifts to ensure timely delivery, zero hidden costs and 24-hour customer service.

“In addition, DHL has added daily flights out of Johor Baharu and from its Central Asia Hub in Hong Kong and adding 20 tons of additional capacity to each flight,” country manager for Malaysia and Brunei Sam Leong said on a statement today.

The decision to extend the daily flights to Johor Baharu was due to capacity constraints on the Hong Kong-Singapore flights, he added.

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Time:matters opens new branch office in Poland

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

German same-day express and emergency logistics provider time:matters has opened its third European branch office in Warsaw following the offices in Zurich and Vienna as part of its internationalization strategy under which it aims to achieve European market leadership within a few years.

Due to its location, Poland provides an essential link between the established Western European industrialized countries and the emerging economic nations of the former Eastern Bloc with a substantial market potential, time:matters said in a statement.

The new time:matters branch in Warsaw is staffed with local logistics experts who are not only well familiar with the Polish market, but also with the specific express logistics needs of companies based in other Eastern European countries, for example in the Ukraine or Hungary, it pointed out.

time:matters’ services now incorporate Polish companies into the company’s international logistics network that encompasses around 400 destinations in 90 countries. Customers benefit from extremely short processing times for the transport of their products to other economic centres. In addition, customers benefit from authorized accelerated customs clearance and options such as on-site pick-up and delivery, time:matters added.

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