Tag: Japan

DHL boosts Asia Air Network with increased dedicated flights

Posted by | Oct 9, 2008 | |

DHL announced that it has increased the frequency of its dedicated Air Hong Kong flights from Hong Kong to Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul and Singapore. Flights to these cities have been increased to six times per week, up from the current five times a week, representing a 20 per cent increase in capacity for each of these four cities.

From October 27, Air Hong Kong, a 60/40 joint venture between Cathay Pacific and DHL, will now operate four additional A300-600 flights on Day 6 on these routes. This represents an increased dedicated capacity of 45 tons per week on each of the four routes to serve the needs of growing intra-Asia trade.

The increased dedicated capacity on the Asia Air Network comes on the back of DHL’s recent announcement of the expansion of its Central Asia Hub (CAH) at Hong Kong International Airport five years ahead of schedule. With a total investment of USD 210 million, the CAH facility is the first large-scale automated Express hub in Asia Pacific with a throughput of 75,000 pieces per hour (pph) of flyers and conveyable shipments, significantly bolstering DHL’s operational capability in Asia.

With over 40 per cent market share and USD 2.2 billion invested in the region, DHL’s investment in the CAH and enhancement of its Asia Air Network provides the core backbone to further enhance service excellence to extend its market-leading position in Asia Pacific.

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DHL launches Japan second 3PL-operated Clinical Trial Logistics Hub

Posted by | Sep 29, 2008 | |

DHL announced the launch of DHL Exel Supply Chains second Clinical Trial Logistics Hub.

With strong performance in clinical trial business launched in March 2007 as the first 3PL provider in Japan, the second operation base was opened following the facility setup in Yashio, Shinagawa in July 2007. The size of this new hub facility is expanded to 2,760‡u, about 20 times more than that of Yashio. DHL Supply Chain provides pharmaceutical companies with a supply chain solution for clinical trial such as warehouse management and transportation at this distribution hub. And this helps rationalize the cargo tracking capability, manage operations with high quality, and improve efficiency in operational processes complying with the regulations (standards & procedures based on GCP) on practice criteria for clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, the hub manages investigational materials in two temperature zones, and the temperature tolerance is observed strictly. In order to provide rigorous management, security system and back-up power supply are available as well.

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Postal Union hopes to use new delivery project early next year

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

Q-Post chairman al-Ali with UPU and other delegates at the meeting of the interim working group in Doha yesterday

Members of the quality steering committee of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) expressed confidence that the radio frequency identification project (RFID), aimed at improving the quality of postal delivery, would be successfully implemented in several countries across the world, most probably by early next year.

Experts, associating with the UPU’s initiative, are currently in Doha as part of the global monitoring system’s (GMS) interim working group’s third meeting in the city. The meeting will conclude tomorrow.

As part of the project, meetings are scheduled to be held also in Washington, Rio De Janerio, Lisbon, Botswana, Helsinki, and Japan. Some of the meetings have already been completed.

He said the core group had come out with some effective solutions which he said could be beneficial to all UPU members, in particular those in the developing world.
Jan Sertons (TNT, The Netherlands), Kai Perasalo (Itella, Finland), Antonio Caeiro, (UPU, Portugal) and Sakae Kamibayashi (Japan Post Service) are among the experts attending the meeting.

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Rural post offices look to tie-ups for survival (Japan)

Posted by | Sep 15, 2008 | |

With many small post offices being forced to close in rural regions due to lack of business, Japan Post is pinning its hopes on teaming up with other companies to improve access to the postal network.

On Friday (12th September), Japan Post Network Co. of the Japan Post group and Lawson Inc., a major convenience store chain, opened a post office in a Lawson outlet in Sakakimachi, Nagano Prefecture, as part of this effort.

As it is likely that calls will mount for a review of postal privatization depending on the result of the next general election, post offices also hope the move toward such partnerships could head off public criticisms about falling levels of service, business analysts said.

Small regional post offices in rural areas, hit by declining populations, have been closing one after another in recent years. As of the end of August, 433 such post offices, or more than 10 percent of the total, had closed.

In addition to a decrease in customers, rural post offices also have been forced to close because managers have been aging, and local governments and agricultural cooperatives that were consigned to manage the post offices have dropped out of the business as they have restructured.

When postal privatization was discussed in the Diet, lawmakers attached a resolution calling for maintenance of the nationwide post office network.

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