Tag: South America

Mexico: DHL too speedy for deceleration

Posted by | Oct 22, 2001 | |

Express delivery group DHL is set to keep up growth levels of over 15% in 2001 – it has averaged 25% growth in the last 6 years – despite these troubled times for Mexico. In 2000, the group posted a turnover of US$200mil. Results could well be 20% below original predictions however. Its 65% share of services to the US is down to 60% but services to Europe and South America are up. It is attracting more importers thanks to its new Import Express product – at present, the importers’ market represents a total of US$150mil in Mexico and DHL makes off with 10%.

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Lan Chile – Bucking the Latin American Trend

Posted by | Oct 16, 2001 | |

IN THE tough market that the air cargo industry currently finds itself, it is becoming increasingly difficult to pick winners and losers.
But it is a fair bet that when the current crisis is over, LanChile Cargo will still be on the winners’ list.
An extraordinary success story, it has grown in the last 12 years from its relatively small home market — “a narrow land with desert in the north and ice in the south” as Paul Petrelli, LanChile’s vice-president cargo Europe (and an Argentinian) puts it — to a dominant position in the Latin American freight market.

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Correo Argentino starts its process of calling in the receivers

Posted by | Oct 13, 2001 | |

According to South American Business Information, “the postal company Correo Argentino called in the receivers 3 weeks ago, and now this process was approved by a judge. The company controlled by the Macri group declared a debt of US$737mil of which around US$260mil corresponds to unpaid levies to the State since 1999. Franco Macri, President of Sideco, company which controls 68.5% of the shares of Correo, blamed the Government and the disloyal competition for the economic crisis of the company. The Ministry of Infrastructure admitted a debt of the National State to the company of US$34mil for unpaid services in 1999. The Government does not recognise the around US$800mil that Correo claims for non-fulfilment of the contract of the concession.”

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e-Access Planned for Cuban Post Customers

Posted by | Oct 2, 2001 | |

In a cool room in a post office in Havana’s Vedado district, a row of seven young Cubans lean over computers that let them send e-mail, enter a single Cuban-run chat room and surf a small corner of the Internet. The center, which opened last month, is one of four such facilities in Havana, and the plan is for them to spread to post offices across the communist-ruled island. In a sense, they are like cyber-cafes without the coffee — or the full-fledged Internet. Their limitations typify Cuba’s slow entry into the cyber world. It is not that President Fidel Castro’s government has not seized on the Internet with enthusiasm as a tool to spread its political message and even sell its wares. The several hundred sites it has set up or approved in recent years range from details on the Communist Party and the single labor union through online state media, business, the arts and sports.

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Red tape clogs transport chain

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

Automotive Logistics

PSA, owner of Peugeot and Citroen, has lofty ambitions in South America. It established a direct presence in Brazil last year by opening a small assembly plant, and plans to produce more cars to fill the forecourts of a promised 200 dealers next year, double the present number.
Whether, as a latecomer to this market, the group can take on and beat the established powers in the region, such as VW, Fiat and Ford, only time will tell. But any gains in market share PSAmakes will be to the benefit of Gefco, its in-house logistics provider.

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