Tag: Switzerland

DHL launches New York overnight express to Europe

Posted by | Jun 25, 2007 | |

DHL, introduced the service for urgent next day documents from New York City to major European destinations.

Available for customers with shipments originating from lower Manhattan, DHL’s next day delivery trip begins with the pickup of urgent material by courier for transfer to the DHL helicopter pad in New York City. Shipments are then flown by helicopter directly to John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport, avoiding New York City traffic. From there, they move on flights bound for nine cities in Europe.

Available Monday thru Thursday, the new offering gives customers the ability to get their shipments delivered next business day from New York City to Amsterdam, Holland; Brussels, Belgium; Dublin, Ireland; Frankfurt, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; London, England; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; and Zurich, Switzerland. Next day by 12:00 noon delivery is available to some of the main financial centers in Europe.

For more than two decades, DHL has been leveraging its Manhattan helicopter to serve the financial district, and is the only express shipper to provide continual same day and overnight delivery of cash letters from Europe and Asia to the US banking system — a service vital to the world’s leading financial institutions. By cutting as much as a day off the time in transit for these shipments, financial institutions and their customers can save millions of dollars each year in otherwise lost interest and delayed business transactions.

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Swiss intermodal operators on a roll

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

Swiss intermodal operators no longer need subsidies from their government, because intermodal is performing so well, according to operator Hupac.

Bernhard Kunz, director of Hupac, said the success was partly thanks to a pro-rail freight policy by the Swiss government that included substantial investments in both terminals and infrastructure.

Three years ago, rail freight volumes surpassed those of road in Switzerland.

Hupac is planning to invest EUR 44m (USD 56m) a year by 2010 in new terminal infrastructure and rolling stock.

The Swiss government is currently funding vital infrastructure developments including two tunnels, one of which is being inaugurated this week, the second in 2017.
Hupac currently moves around 1.1m teu of goods a year around Europe, using 100 trains with dedicated terminals and IT systems.

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Posts and electronic services go hand-in-hand

Posted by | Jun 11, 2007 | |

Some 150 people attended a conference on the postal sector and the information society, organized on Friday 8 June at UPU headquarters in Berne.

E-Commerce development, Internet security, identity authentication, delivery of merchandise bought online, protection of personal data, and partnerships to be explored were among the many topics discussed during the conference organized by the UPU in cooperation with the International Telecom-munications Union. The discussions brought to light many opportunities and issues facing companies that have gone the e-business route and for which the postal sector, with the help of the UPU, could bring solutions through more standardization as well as improvements to quality of service and security.

In their presentations, the Canadian, Tunisian, Italian and Korean Posts showed how they used new technologies to develop innovative services that responded to customers’ needs. For example, the Korean Post has developed systems such as PostNet to better manage its mail operations and ePost to facilitate Internet access through post offices. With the creation of its electronic bank, today close to 67% of all postal financial transactions are electronic. The Korean Post now wants to become ubiquitous thanks to its u-Post project, which relies on radio-frequency identification technology.

eBay International explained how the company maintains a very close relationship with postal services for the delivery of merchandise bought on eBay sites, while Ernst & Young talked about the evolution of cyberspace security and improvements made to better protect electronic data.

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