Tag: Mexico

DHL inaugurates the industry's largest Hub in Central America

Posted by | May 7, 2008 | |

DHL inaugurated the largest Hub in Central America. With this new center, DHL has increased its capacity to sort up to 5,000 packages per hour, representing a 250pct jump from its previous shipping handling capacity.

Strategically located at Tocumen International Airport in Panama, a country that connects the main poles in the Latin America, the new DHL hub boasts the infrastructure and capacity needed to efficiently respond to the accelerated rise in international trade, particularly between the United States and Central America, which stems from the recent free trade agreements.

The USD 4.5 million hub was designed to optimize space allowing for greater operational and storage areas which results in increased shipment capacity and improvements in aircraft departure time by 10pct . The new 83,000 square-foot center- three times larger than the previous facility- considers various innovations and technology systems including a cold room for storing packages that require temperature control, material handling system and a re-packaging area.

In Mexico, the expansion of DHL Mexico City’s main hub resulted in increasing the company’s operating capacity by 20pct. The expansion is part of a five-year investment plan of over USD 112 million.

In Brazil, DHL opened recently four points-of-sales centers in the country’s major cities strategically located in high-traffic areas that facilitate access to small- and medium-size companies.

In Jamaica, a new Gateway was built and recently inaugurated to speed customs clearance.

In Argentina, the company invested USD 1 M to open a customer service center with state-of-the art technology which doubled the capacity.

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DHL, UPS target Latin America growth

Posted by | Apr 22, 2008 | |

DHL Express and UPS plan to invest more in Latin America this year to grow their business in the region and partly compensate for the impact of the slowing US economy.

Roger Crook, CEO DHL Express International Americas, told Chilean newspaper El Mercurio that the company planned to invest about USD 70 million in Latin America during 2008 and aimed to grow about 12 pct. Plans include two new offices in Chile but he did not disclose further details of the investment.

A significant proportion is likely to go to Mexico, however, in view of DHL’s plan to spend USD 112 million there over the next five years. Crook said early last year that DHL would invest USD 80 million in the region and was aiming for 15-20 pct growth in 2007.

Meanwhile, UPS, which during 2006-07 invested USD 7 million on 15 new operation centres to extend its Mexican network to 35 locations, is opening a further eight centres in the country this year, according to Mexican newspaper El Financiero.

Rubén Medina, UPS international sales manager, told the newspaper that despite the US economic slowdown, the operator’s Mexican exports grew by 5 pctin the final quarter of 2007. UPS will also aim to win more business among manufacturing companies along the Mexican border and SMEs this year, he added.

Mexico is the largest market in Latin America for UPS which has five daily flights from Mexico City to five different US airports. UPS has invested USD 39 million in Mexico since launching operations there in 1989, the newspaper said.

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Omega United Acquires SkyPostal, Inc.

Posted by | Apr 18, 2008 | |

Omega United, Inc. has acquired SkyPostal, Inc., in a move to change its corporate strategy and direction. Omega will cease its previous business activities and file to change its name to SkyPostal Networks, Inc.

“Going public through this merger is the next step in our evolution, as SkyPostal strives to become the dominant mail distribution company in Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico (‘LAC’),” stated Albert P. Hernandez, SkyPostal’s President and CEO. Mr. Hernandez went on to say, “We are now in a position to implement an aggressive growth strategy that features internal growth as well as growth through the acquisition of key postal delivery companies within the region. The highly fragmented postal delivery industry in the LAC region is ripe for consolidation and offers economies of scale related to cost reduction and the elimination of redundant services. The market is ideal for the application of current technologies, standardization of operating systems and the region-wide development of the SkyPostal brand.”

SkyPostal is one of the largest facilitators of mail delivery from Europe and the US into LAC, for major European postal administrations and the leading mail consolidators, delivering more than 150 tons of mail per month into the region. The Company has exclusive agreements in place with over 20 major private postal services in 20 different countries throughout the LAC region for the delivery of commercial mail, periodicals and parcel post.

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UPU: ALACOPP joins the Consultative Committee

Posted by | Apr 3, 2008 | |

The Consultative Committee of the UPU has just welcomed a new member: the Latin American Association of Private Posts and Postal Operators (ALACOPP). This association, which is made up of private operators from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay, analyzes opportunities and challenges in the postal sector in order to increase the market for all industry players. The highly fragmented postal market in Latin America is made up of public operators and a large number of private entreprises.

According to ALACOPP’s Executive Director, Marcela MARON: “The challenge before us is for Latin America’s private operators to be successfully integrated into the work of the UPU, and for public and private operators to work together in our region to develop the postal sector as a whole, in order to improve the quality of service.”

The UPU Consultative Committee gives postal players other than public postal operators and regulators a voice in the organization’s deliberations. It consists of non-governmental organizations representing customers, delivery service providers, workers’ organizations, suppliers of goods and services to the postal sector and other organizations that have an interest in international postal services, including direct marketers, private operators, international mailers, philatelic associations and publishers.

As well as being the 25th member of the UPU Consultative Committee, ALACOPP is an observer member of the Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (PUASP).

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