Tag: South America

TNT opens new office in Mendoza, Argentina

Posted by | Aug 1, 2007 | |

TNT Express has continued its expansion in South America with the opening of larger premises in the Argentinean city of Mendoza last July. .

The new facility, with handling space of 250 msq, 300 msq of storage capacity and associated offices, is four times larger than the previous depot, the company said.

TNT Argentina said that the enlarged premises followed double-digit growth of 15 pct in weight transported and of 13 pct in volumes over the last six months. “We are thus consolidating in one of the most important export regions in the country,” the company stated.

“This will enable us to improve our consolidated air cargo service and to broaden the operational capacity ready for the peak season,” commented branch manager José Luis Bellino.

TNT Argentina has own offices at Buenos Aires international airport and downtown Buenos Aires as well as in the cities of Córdoba, Rosario, Mar del Plata, Mendoza and a recently opened branch in Salta.

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Chile’s Banco Santander Santiago optimizes cash processes with self-service solutions from Wincor Nixdorf

Posted by | Jul 31, 2007 | |

Banco Santander Santiago has awarded Wincor Nixdorf yet another contract – this time for 320 automated teller machines with application software. With this order, the installed base of Wincor Nixdorf ATMs at Banco Santander Santiago will rise to more than 1100 machines. The rollout is scheduled to be completed within the next four months. With this project, Wincor Nixdorf makes another contribution to significantly expand its position in Latin America. As to banking business the region is a growth market for Wincor Nixdorf offering great potential. Banks in Latin American are increasingly expanding their ATM networks or replacing old devices with new ones.

It is Banco Santander Santiago’s goal to expand its network of ATMs and to automate –and thus further optimize – the cash processes in its branches. The bank intends to successively reduce the high number of cash transactions that still take place at teller windows. Through the increased implementation of self-service systems, Banco Santander Santiago’s customers will be able to carry out cash transactions in all of the bank’s branches around the clock.

A special feature of this project is that all the ATMs are equipped with contactless card readers. Users of public transportation can load their “transantiago” cards at the bank’s ATMs and use them to pay for subway and bus travel. Currently in Chile there are three types of cards that can be loaded contactlessly to pay for public transportation: non-personalized cards that anyone can load or use, personalized cards that are imprinted with the user’s identity card number, and bank customer cards featuring both a magnetic strip and a chip for contactless loading.

The Chilean financial institution Santander Santiago is among the ten largest banks in Latin America. With 350 branches and 8000 employees, it is the largest bank in Chile. Banco Santander Santiago has an installed base of 1700 ATMs in Chile.

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Express firms aim for double-digit growth in South America

Posted by | Jun 1, 2007 | |

As South America’s leading economies expand in 2007, the top international express companies are laying out their strategies for healthy growth in this key emerging market.

Foreign express companies are upping their activity in South America this year, expanding their networks and product and service offerings in the belief that optimistic economic growth forecasts for the region will hold good. DHL has restructured its Latin American operations in anticipation of double-digit growth, while TNT is expecting the same following its purchase of Brazil’s Mercurio. UPS expanded its routes and increased the frequency of services between the region and the rest of the world at the beginning of this year, while FedEx is upgrading cargo-carrying capacity to the region through fleet upgrades and targeting small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in six top countries.

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Argentina: DHL grows 100% in five years locally

Posted by | May 13, 2007 | |

DHL was founded back in 1969 by Messrs Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn of the US; thirty years later, it became part of the Deutsche Post World Net group with a world turnover of around Euro 60bil. DHL’s express delivery and logistics services are available in 220 countries. In Argentina, it has invested USD 40mil and has been run by Norberto Lovaglio for the last six years (the executive was also made regional vice-president for Hispano-America earlier this year).
Locally, DHL has extended its international courier system and has begun working with local domestic post. Over the last five years, DHL’s Argentinian operations have expanded 101%: starting off in the year 2000, it had a 27% market share and it now has 50% of the market. The firm can be expected to try to buy up other operations soon but it does not, according to Lovaglio, plan to bid for Correo Argentina if the latter’s reprivatisation is called.

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