Tag: North America

Siemens awarded USD 217.5 million flats sequencing system subcontract from Northrop Grumman

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

Siemens announced that it has been awarded a USD 217.5 million fixed-price contract to provide key technologies of the Flats Sequencing Systems (FSS) contract from the Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Northrop Grumman was contracted by the U.S. Postal Service to provide 100 FSS to further automate its flats mail stream, which includes large envelopes, catalogs and magazines.

Siemens will provide the optical character recognition and video coding systems (OCR/VCS), the tray staging device (TSD), and the sorter built to Northrop Grumman Corporation’s design. Additionally, Siemens will provide extensive logistical services and support.

A pre-production version of the system will be fielded later this year. This version will be used by the U.S. Postal Service to develop system operational procedures. Installation of the first FSS production units at U.S. Postal Service facilities nationwide is expected to begin in 2008 with the remaining FSS installations scheduled for completion by 2010.

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U.S. Postal Service, MBDC announce “Cradle to Cradle” SM Certification

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

Consumers now can send a very “green” message across town or around the world when sending Priority Mail and Express Mail packages and envelopes.

The U.S. Postal Service is the only mailing or shipping company in the nation to achieve “Cradle to Cradle” SM Certification at the Silver level from MBDC (McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry) for human and environmental health. Postal Service mailing and shipping supplies already had exceeded government requirements, including recycled content standards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Going beyond existing federal and state agency requirements was a goal in seeking certification.

Cradle to Cradle Certification is a scientifically based process that reviews specific criteria to assess the environmental attributes of materials used in products. MBDC examined 60 packaging items, breaking those items down to 250 component materials and then further analyzing 1,400 individual ingredients in those component materials before awarding the certification.

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FedEx and The Salvation Army stand ready to weather 2007 hurricane season

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

FedEx Corp. made a “just in time” delivery to The Salvation Army today in advance of the 2007 hurricane season.

The charitable donation included the largest Mobile Feeding Unit in The Salvation Army’s fleet of mobile canteen vehicles plus four others in cities across the country. In addition to the canteen units and emergency supplies, FedEx contributed a grant to train Salvation Army emergency response personnel in countries around the world.

The five mobile canteens will be based in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York. Each vehicle is co-branded with the FedEx and Salvation Army logos and is equipped with the latest equipment and technology to assist disaster response personnel in reacting to emergencies that could include hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, fires or other scenarios.

The canteens can feed between 1,000 and 2,500 people per day and are outfitted with new GPS tracking devices that let commanders know their exact location at any given time. As part of the gift, FedEx also contributed 1,800 disaster clean-up kits that include mops, brooms, sponges, gloves and cleaning solution.

With a busy hurricane season predicted for south Florida in 2007, the Miami-based canteen will be particularly critical. More than twice the size of the other vehicles in use, this mobile canteen is now the largest in the Salvation Army’s fleet. It measures 30 feet by 8 feet and can carry a payload of 7,000 pounds.

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DHL prepares for 2007 hurricane season

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

DHL’s Disaster Response Team (DRT) Americas, Introduced in 2006, is Mobilized to Provide Emergency Relief Logistics Support to Communities Affected by Natural Disasters This Hurricane Season

With early predictions of an intense Atlantic hurricane season with a possible 10 hurricanes forecasted for this year by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, DHL Americas’ Disaster Response Team (DRT) has mobilized its resources and is prepared to provide emergency relief logistics support in the event of any natural disaster as needed throughout the region.

The DRT Americas is comprised of about 80 DHL employees stationed throughout the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean and stands ready to be deployed on an as-needed basis to support relief activities when called upon to almost anywhere in the Americas region.

In addition to performing their daily job functions, they have voluntarily committed themselves to being part of a global team, along with DRT units in Singapore and Dubai, that enables DHL to form a strategic partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the area of disaster management.

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Selling retailers on opening shop at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

Michael Baldwin wants a FedEx Kinko’s store inside Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.

Baldwin, an executive in the airport’s revenue-management department, has spent a year and a half cajoling the Dallas-based chain to put one of its printing-and-shipping stores inside an airport terminal for the first time.

Last week, he traveled 1,100 miles to pay the company another visit, at a sprawling booth in Las Vegas. Baldwin was one of six executives from D/FW Airport attending the annual convention of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the world’s largest trade show for retailers.

The airport, which is trying to fill its five terminals with restaurants and shops, sent its largest delegation to this year’s show.

D/FW has been pressing to add more retail — it gets about half of its annual USD 500 million budget from airlines. In Las Vegas, it was touting the impending openings of several new stores and restaurants, ranging from Dunkin’ Donuts to Mont Blanc, and the availability of credit-card processing at 97 Pepsi machines.

At the same time, D/FW was recently called out by respondents in a J.D. Power survey on the depth — or lack thereof — of its food, beverage and retail offerings, even though it placed first among North American airports in overall satisfaction. Other airports also rated low in the retail categories.

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