Tag: Philippines

Philippines Post CEO tells UNI Apro he will consult with workers on modernisation

Posted by | Oct 27, 2008 | |

The UNI Apro Post & Logistics Committee, meeting in Manila, had a good exchange of views with the CEO of PhilPost, Mr Hector Villanueva who came and addressed the meeting. He told the meeting that unless they wanted privatisation they needed to make sure the post company was making a profit, they needed to give incentives to the Government so they would want to keep their investment. One of the things the company needed to do to stay profitable was to modernise and use new technology. UNI told the Mr Villanueva that while unions weren’t opposed to new technology and modernisation, they wanted to be consulted and to be able to ensure their members were re-skilled, retrained and given new jobs and the the work wasn’t outsourced. Mr Villanueva gave assurances that the union would be an integral part of the decision making over modernisation.
He also told unions attending the UNI-Apro meeting that PhilPost was one of the first fully deregulated markets in the world where all post was subject to competition since 1991. He said the company was doing well competing with new entrants and in reality it was PhilPost that still had to provide the Universal Service, but that was now a difficult task with falling volumes of mail.

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Money orders are major income source: PhilPost

Posted by | Sep 9, 2008 | |

The electronic mail may have practically killed the “snail mail,” once the main preoccupation of the country’s postal service, but life goes on for the Philippine Postal Corporation.

Postmaster General Hector Villanueva said PhilPost is thriving in money orders, which is now its major source of income.

Contrary to perception that PhilPost services would be become irrelevant because Filipinos has largely embraced the e-mail, he said that postal service is actually a flourishing business.

He said PhilPost has entered the remittance business, wherein it credits international money order to the PostalBank ATM accounts of the recipients.

The service now covers 12 countries Brunei, Hongkong, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.

Despite this new service, PhilPost still caters to the basic postal delivery needs such as express mail and registered as well parcel services for big businesses.

“Our advantage is that we’re the only one that penetrates the countryside. Most of our competitors concentrate on the cities, that’s where we get clobbered,” Villanueva said.

He said, however, that PhilPost can eventually catch up with major couriers because the countryside belongs to them.

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UPS to build new Asia hub

Posted by | Sep 2, 2008 | |

The US express service provider United Parcel Service is investing USD 125 million in a new intercontinental airfreight hub in Shanghai (China). The approximately 100,000 sqm facility is scheduled to go into service in November. Over and above this, the CEP service provider wants to start construction work on a USD 180 million hub in Shenzhen (China) for intra Asian flights. This platform should be finished by 2010 and replace UPS’ existing facility in the Philippines. UPS anticipates that it will generate 40 pct of its sales in international traffic in 2010. At present the figure is 25–30 pct. UPS has also announced that it is acquiring a logistics company in China, but it is still remaining tight-lipped about the rumours concerning its supposed USD 20 billion offer for TNT, Europe’s second largest CEP service provider.

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PhilPost and the USPS secures postal remittance partnership

Posted by | Aug 29, 2008 | |

The Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) and the United States Postal Service (USPS) are working towards the establishment of a fast, secure but low-cost remittance project which will benefit the 4.4 million Filipinos in the United States and their millions of relatives in the Philippines.

Postmaster General Hector R. R. Villanueva said that Filipinos in the US will soon be able to send money anywhere in the Philippines through PhilPost’s more than 2,000 post offices nationwide.

When finalized, the effort will lead to a Bilateral Agreement on International Electronic Money Transfer between the two countries.

The project is in line with the government’s directive to bring down the remittance fees for overseas Filipino workers who remitted USD 15 billion last year to the Philippines. More than half of that remittances or roughly USD 8 billion came from the Filipinos in the US.

Chairman Ray Anthony Roxas Chua III of the Commission of Information and Communications Technology (CITC), the agency which supervises Philpost, and Philippine Ambassador to the US Willy C. Gaa hailed the project.

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UPS chooses Shenzhen for new Intra-Asia Air Hub

Posted by | May 21, 2008 | |

UPS is moving its intra-Asia air hub from the Philippines to Shenzhen in China’s thriving Pearl River Delta to improve customer service by reducing transit times across Asia.

UPS will base the new intra-Asia hub at the Shenzhen Airport in southern China, near Hong Kong. The repositioning will slash at least a day off shipment times-in-transit for Asian customers while offering a new level of service to the manufacturing region located just north of Shenzhen. The new cost-efficient hub will be operational in 2010 and represents an estimated investment of US$180 million.

Currently, the markets of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan account for more than half of UPS’s total intra-Asia volume.
In 2007, UPS signed an agreement with the Shanghai Airport Group to establish a UPS International Air Hub at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. When it opens in November, the Shanghai hub will connect China to the UPS global air network, including U.S. and European destinations. It thus will play a substantially different role than the hub in Shenzhen, which will connect all major Asian points.

The Shenzhen hub, expected to total about 89,000 square meters in size (almost 1 million square feet), will include an express customs handling unit, sorting facilities, cargo handling and cargo build-up areas and ramp handling operations. It will be capable initially of processing up to 18,000 pieces per hour – compared to the existing 7,500 pieces per hour in the Philippines – but can be easily expanded to a capacity of 36,000 pieces per hour. It will employ about 400 people.

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