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DHL to use Taiwan experience to tap mainland Chinese market
The international express delivery company DHL will use its Taiwan experience to tap into the mainland Chinese market, a ranking DHL official said Friday.
John P. Mullen, president of the DHL Asia-Pacific regional business, made the remarks while meeting with the Republic of China Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Ling-san.Mullen said that DHL had invested US$300 million to strengthen its infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region in the past several years. Of this amount, US$30 million was injected into Taiwan.
Taiwan Post Office offers parcel pickup service
The Directorate General of Posts (DGP) has decided to extend its services to parcel pickup in addition to deliveries, in the face of increasing competition from private mail and parcel service companies, a DGP spokesman said Thursday.
The spokesman said that state-run post offices, especially those in urban areas, have lost business to private companies, despite shortened inner city delivery times of four hours and that inter-city delivery times to six hours.While international express companies such as UPS and FedEx are doing well in Taiwan’s market, newly established domestic express service firms, including the Taiwan Pelican Express, with its convoy of 470 vans and hundreds of motorcycles, are posing a serious threat to the Post Office.
Taiwan to Negotiate Postal Links with China
Officials from Taiwan have said they will choose a delegation of business representatives to negotiate direct shipping, postal and travel links with China, signalling a possible breakthrough in ending a 53-year ban on such activity. Beijing has also signalled a willingness to allow direct links to be negotiated on a business, rather than a political level.
Read MoreTaiwan Express, Cargo: Upbeat Forecast
Major air cargo and express multinationals in Taiwan have given upbeat forecasts for their businesses this year. Firms with operations in Taiwan including DHL Corp. (X.DHL), Federal Express Corp., United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) and TNT Global Express, Logistics & Mail said in the first quarter on average their business grew 30%. They added business is expected to grow 25% in the second quarter and rise between 35%-40% in the third and fourth quarters. The firms said the reason for the upbeat outlook stems from a warmer economic relationship across the Taiwan Strait as Taiwan firms send orders to their China plants for production.
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