Tag: Middle East

DHL in deal with Dubai Industrial City

Posted by | Mar 22, 2008 | |

DHL has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai Industrial City.

Under the agreement, leading contract logistics company DHL Exel Supply Chain, in collaboration with sister companies DHL Express, Danzas AEI, and DHL Global Forwarding, are developing a unique supply model, said the company said in a statement.

The transPARK is a dedicated logistics park that will provide a single control point for, and access to, a full range of end-to-end logistics services to the companies at Dubai Industrial City.

Dubai Industrial City chief executive officer Rashed Al Ansari said transPARK stands to support the massive demand for logistics services that is being generated by the booming industrial and manufacturing sector.

Considered the third largest non-real estate project in Dubai, Dubai Industrial City aims to promote the continued expansion of the industrial sector in the region, particularly high-value manufacturing and production in the small and medium sector industries. The ultimate objective is to make Dubai less dependent on imports.

Using DHL’s global network, the transPARK complex will be positioned to provide services that include freight, inventory management, distribution and consultancy. transPARK’s warehousing includes storage areas for machinery and vehicles, bulk storage, bonded storage, racked storage, or temperature-controlled storage for perishable goods. Storage space will be leased on an individual or multi-user basis.

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Empost Continues The Success Of Ezimail Service

Posted by | Mar 16, 2008 | |

Ezimail is a unique mail service introduced by Empost that entails the personal delivery of mail directly from the central mail room to any location at the convenience of the customer. The leader in express courier and cargo and logistics in the UAE, Empost introduced Ezimail to ensure the arrival and delivery of mail to customers daily and regularly, without the need to visit the post office.

Elaborating on the benefits of the service, Empost’s CEO, Mr. Sultan Al Midfa said: “Ezimail affirms Empost’s unique capability of offering quick, integrated and functional solutions to small and large businesses alike. Our objective has always been to become the unmatched, premium, complete end-to-end service provider in the distribution, focusing on the needs of our customers at all times. Ezimail is an extension of Empost’s initiative in consistently delivering cost-effective solutions that will offer greater value to our customers helping them save on the most important resources of time and money.”

Through Ezimail, the mail is delivered in a sealed satchel to ensure safety and high confidentiality. Ezimail also offers customers added convenience by collecting mail for delivery to the post office besides the option to purchase postal stamps. Some of the features of Ezimail are the collection and delivery of ordinary postal items, registered letters, EMS/Mumtaz items and other normal mail contents.

Empost accredits its consistent growth through innovation and refinement of services, which have been the company’s primary strengths for over a decade. The company has evolved over the past decade to cater to growing and diverse business needs through a host of value-added services such as Total Mail Management, Heavies Express Service, Economy Express, Ezidox, Track and Trace, and a stream of other services including insurance on all dispatches. A reliable, comprehensive logistics solutions provider, Empost’s multi-pronged approach is put into practice by a team of 1,000 specialised staff members to make it the UAE’s fastest growing integrated freight forwarding and logistics solutions provider.

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GCC postal heads back proposal for world meet

Posted by | Mar 12, 2008 | |

The heads of postal corporations of the GCC States have backed Qatar in its efforts to host the Universal Postal Union’s World Postal Congress in 2012.
At a meeting held at the Q-Post head office yesterday, they also agreed to intensify their efforts to launch a logistics company, to be maintained and operated by the region’s postal corporations.

The countries have also agreed to participate in the world exhibition of stamps to be held as part of the UPU’s next World Postal Congress, scheduled for the last week of July in the Romanian capital of Bucharest.

The meeting also urged the Qatar Philately and Numismatic Club to strive for a Gulf Philately Union, with a world character. The Emirates Post made a proposal to jointly raise the issue of terminal use at the next WPC.

It pointed out that the latest move of the UPU to put GCC States in different postal zones would adversely affect the revenues of the postal corporations. Earlier Q-Post chairman Ali Mohamed al-Ali declared the meeting open.

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Evaluation of Q-Post project to be conducted

Posted by | Mar 11, 2008 | |

An evaluation of the ongoing Q-Post project of connecting the branch offices to the postal corporation’s IT network would be carried out soon.

This was decided at a meeting between Q-Post chairman Ali Mohamed al-Ali and chairman of international relations of Slovenian Post Jan Koehler at General Post Office yesterday. Koehler is the Universal Postal Union (UPU) official overseeing the improvement of the country’s ongoing postal projects.

Announcing the plans, Q-Post chairman said the corporation would utilise fully the share it had received from the UPU’s terminal use fund for improving the services of the corporation.

The UPU share of 7 pct for postal improvement would be allotted to all postal corporations. As per a UPU agreement, the money that the UPU allots for postal projects comes from the advanced industrialised countries. The fund is provided to finance the administering of projects until 2012. Each country has a national co-ordinator to oversee the ongoing projects.

For the improvement of services Jan Koehler suggested the training of postal staff. He said the movement of staff to other sectors in search of better opportunities would jeopardise the implementing of postal projects.

Al-Ali briefed the Slovenian official of the steps the Q-Post had undertaken to improve the postal services in Qatar. The electronic-linked developments at the corporation were also discussed.

The Slovenian official also held talks with Q-Post IT manager George Scott Campbell.

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Pakistan Post receives over 1,000 letters for contest

Posted by | Mar 11, 2008 | |

The Pakistan Post has received over 1,000 letters for “international letter writing contest” and the selection committee will soon finalise the letters to submit it to Universal Postal Union (UPU). Assistant Director International Post Manzoor Hussain Khattak told here on Monday that the international letters writing contest titled `Why tolerance and forbearance is compulsory for our world” will be held this year in Switzerland. He said that the main objective of the contest is to draw the attention of new generation towards writing letters.

The children with 15 years of age or less are eligible to participate in the contest and first three position holders in the country would get Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 cash prizes respectively. The participants have written the letters in Urdu and English languages and the selected letters from Pakistan will be sent to the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The selected letters must reach the UPU International Bureau before April 30.

He said the first three position holders would receive gold, silver, and copper medals and UPU post tickets albums. Complete letters of the participants having name, father’s name, age, class, picture, complete name of institute, address and telephone number, if any will be entertained, he added.

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