TNT NV won a contract to manage a 15,000 sq m warehouse in Brazil from GE Plastics, a division of US General Electric, TNT said on April 18, 2006. The deal will be carried out by TNT’s logistics unit TNT Logistics. No financial details were disclosed.
Read MoreWant to pay a bill in Mexico? Go to the bank, and pay it straight into your creditor’s bank account. Wish to send a letter across town? Call a messenger. Something for abroad? Use an international courier. As for the state-owned postal service, Sepomex, it evokes a laugh from most Mexicans. Gonzalo Alarcón, Sepomex’s head, says that “delivery times are acceptable”. He seems to be among the few who thinks so. “If you are trying to send a piece of mail from a small city to another small city, may God help you,” says Carlos Casasús, a former official at the transport ministry. Sepomex is less inefficient than it was. Its annual losses were equal to half its total revenues, but have fallen to 10% even though wages for postmen have doubled in the past five years. But Sepomex has only one automated mail sorting-machine, at Mexico City’s airport. Many of the 2m letters and parcels it delivers each day are conveyed by bicycle. It does not help that Sepomex has just 20,000 employees serving 103m people.
Read MoreAccording to provisional data collected on their web site, SEPOMEX, the Mexican postal service, handled 732 million mail pieces in 2005 vs. 703 million in 2004 (+ 4%). Franked and permit mail items grew 5% from 627 to 660 million pieces.
Read MoreDHL Colombia announced on February 22, 2006 details on its expansion strategy in Colombia in 2006.
DHL Colombia’s strategy is concentrated on the expansion of its chain and the diversification and improvement of its services.
DHL Colombia plans to open five branches in Bogota, Barranquilla, Medellin and Cali. The company already operates 17 offices.
DHL Colombia’s sales rose 8.0 pct year-on-year in 2005 and the company aims to increase its sales by 17 pct year-on-year in 2006.
Read MoreDHL Global Forwarding Colombia plans to invest around USD2.0 mln (1.67 mln euro) in improvement of its services in 2006, the company’s manager, Alvaro Mancilla, said on February 19, 2006. DHL will invest the sum mainly for expansion of its cargo platforms in the city of Cali and along the Colombian Atlantic coast. The Colombian company exported 42,000 tonnes of cargo and imported 123,000 tonnes in 2005, and its sales totalled UD60 mln (50.2 mln euro).
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