Tag: Thailand

TNT aims for regional logistics hub in Thailand

Posted by | Apr 21, 2008 | |

TNT Express is aiming to be the logistics gateway for the Greater Mekong region now that it has completed its huge depot in Rangsit, Pathum Thani.
The 3,465-square-metre depot will officially open next month, said Alan Miu, TNT’s Thailand country manager.
The depot will serve as its distribution centre and link with 26 outlets nationwide to tap into double-digit demand growth.
The network’s coverage area includes southern China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, the countries through which the Mekong River travels.
The logistics network in the Greater Mekong is a part of sub-regional pact to connect transport routes running through China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
The company said its logistics facilities across Asia would help its network link more than 120 cities with a full range of logistics services in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and China.
Thailand has strong potential as it serves as a production base for various industries such as automobiles, electronics and medical care.
Mr Miu said the new depot was one of the group’s major investment projects in Asia; it has a total budget of 100 million euros to spend from 2008 to 2012.
The budget will be used for expansion of its air express fleet, trucks and depots. Logistics networks in Thailand also cover the group’s time-critical express delivery service, which offers services for goods that require rush delivery.

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TNT invests Euro 100 million to capture freight opportunities between Southeast Asia, Europe and China

Posted by | Apr 11, 2008 | |

TNT announced it will invest Euro 100 million over the coming 5 years to strengthen its network coverage, connectivity and infrastructure. TNT aims to build a leadership position by leveraging on the soaring demand for freight express services between Southeast Asia, China and Europe. This demand is mainly driven by customers in the high-tech, equipment and machinery and healthcare sectors that are increasingly moving large volumes of high-value goods between Southeast Asia, China and Europe.

Commenting on the inaugural landing of TNT’s Boeing 747-400 ER Freighter in Singapore, James McCormac, Chief Operating Officer of TNT’s express division, said, “Our strategic objective is to build a leadership position in domestic, intra-regional and selected intercontinental express flows in the emerging Asian region. TNT’s volumes between China and Europe have grown over 20 per cent in 2007, and we’re certain that the stop in Singapore will further accelerate this volume growth.”

With Singapore as its Southeast Asian hub, TNT’s connectivity between Europe, Southeast Asia and China will further be enhanced to tap into significant trade flows between these regions. According to a study by TNT, Greater China is one of Southeast Asia’s largest trade partners, representing some 24 per cent of total express volumes transported by air. This is followed by Europe representing 20 per cent, with trade within Southeast Asia accounting for 11 per cent. Within Southeast Asia’s air trade, the high-tech sector alone accounts for over 76 per cent of total trade value.

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DHL Express expands network and services in Asia

Posted by | Feb 8, 2008 | |

DHL Express has unveiled a number of moves to expand its network and services in Asia over the past few weeks.

In Taiwan, DHL has announced a 17pct rise in operating profits for 2007 based on a 10pct rise in import volumes and 5pct rise in exports. Revenue figures were not disclosed. Expansion of the operations centre at the Farglory Free Trade Zone near Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in northern Taiwan is scheduled for completion in October and operational start in early 2009. This will triple cargo handling volumes at the site. DHL also won the Taiwan Ideal Brand in the ‘ International Express & Logistics’ category for the seventh consecutive year in an annual survey conducted by Taiwan’s Management Magazine.

In Bangladesh, DHL has launched an Airport to Door Express service for local customers importing from overseas suppliers under Free Carrier (FCA) Incoterms (International Commercial Terms) that do not require door-to-door transport.

In Malaysia, DHL extended its presence in the hi-tech Klang Valley region by opening three more Servicepoints in partnership with retail partners to offer express services to small companies and private individuals.

Meanwhile, Malaysian newspaper The Edge Financial Daily has reported that DHL is giving local cargo airline Transmile, with which it has a strategic cooperation alliance, time to restructure and build its reputation following financial problems last year.

DHL Asia Pacific chief executive officer Dan McHugh told the newspaper DHL has a “good, open relationship” with Transmile, and the two companies were in regular talks on network issues. Transmile was still a component of its global aviation strategy, operating routes such as Bangkok-Singapore, Singapore-Jakarta and Beijing-Hong Kong for DHL, he noted.

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FedEx expands portfolio of services with launch of FedEx International Economy in Asia Pacific

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

FedEx Express today announced the expansion of its customer portfolio of services with the launch of FedEx International Economy service in ten Asia Pacific markets.

FedEx International Economy is an economical, day-definite, customs-cleared, door-to-door service that features a transit time typically one to two days longer than premium FedEx International Priority service, which is designed for more time-sensitive shipments. The new service effectively addresses the needs of customers in Asia shipping intra-Asia and to the U.S. and Europe, who look for reliability and cost efficiency as a top priority in shipping.

FedEx International Economy is specially designed for customers with less urgent shipments of individual packages under 68kg, but who require the reliability they have come to expect with FedEx. No weight restrictions apply for multi-piece shipments. Offered on competitive list rates and backed by a money-back guarantee, FedEx International Economy typically delivers intra-Asia packages in two business days, and shipments to the U.S. and major markets in Europe typically in three to four business days. As with the FedEx International Priority service, customers can use www.fedex.com for online tracking with proactive e-mail notification in 16 languages.

FedEx International Economy service is now available in 10 APAC markets: Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. It will be available in March in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

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Technology developed by Mysore PTC to be launched on January 1, 2008

Posted by | Dec 12, 2007 | |

Mysore is likely to emerge as a “technology hub” for postal services in South Asia. With the Postal Training Centre (PTC) here already in the forefront of developing innovative technologies for the improvement of postal administration in 22 postal circles across the country, India Post is strongly vying for bringing the proposed South Asian Postal Technology Centre to Mysore.

India Post has sent a formal request to the Bern-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the Asia Pacific Postal Centre in Bangkok for considering Mysore as the venue for establishing the premier centre to train officers from South Asian countries in developing state-of-the-art technology in postal matters.

As a first step, India Post, which functions under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, is establishing the National Postal Technology Centre on the premises of PTC in Mysore. The centre, which will be one of its kind, will be developed as a “centre of excellence” to impart specialised training to the personnel of postal circles in developing technologies such as developing software and custom-made computers to suit postal services.

The Mysore PTC has been training postal employees from several African countries and Thailand. Significantly, the postal departments in countries such as Nepal, the Maldives and Bhutan are using the software developed by the PTC to improve their postal administration.

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