Emirates Post – Building up an own freighter fleet
Emirates Post – Building up an own freighter fleet
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Global Shipping & Logistics signs deal with DHL-Danzas and Master Foods
Global Shipping & Logistics (GSL), a young logistics service provider and subsidiary of Al Shirawi Group, is expecting a significant increase in its business operation following an agreement with DHL-Danzas and Master Foods.
Khalid Al Shirawi, executive director of GSL, said the company would host, manage and provide a specialised support to DHL Danzas, an innovative global freight forwarder and subsidiary of Deutsche Post World Net, the world’s leading provider of IT-supported logistics solutions covering air and ocean shipment. Al Shirawi said GSL would be in charge with the distribution of products by Master Foods, a unit responsible for sales and marketing of chocolate products by Mars Incorporated, in the UAE, other Gulf states and the entire MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.
GSL has a Dh130 million warehousing and distribution centre at Dubai Investment Park, and installed last year one of the most hi-tech cooling systems that allows customers to monitor their food consignments on the Internet. Its facility also features racking and converters to maximise cold storage space. The complex offers a total of 20,000-tonne capacity for frozen and chilled products, with temperatures ranging from -25C to +4C.
A dozen special chambers offer storage spaces ranging from 12 sea containers to 1,500 pallets of stock. Master Foods sells various chocolate brands, including Snickers, Mars and M&M’s, Abou Siouf, Galaxy and Uncle Ben’s, to some 1.4 billion consumers worldwide. It has regional offices in Dubai, Cairo and Casablanca.
Read MoreArab Permanent Postal Council calls for stronger Arab role in global postal strategies
Officials of postal administrations from Arab countries called for a greater role in the global postal strategies and appointed a task force to develop a postal strategy for Arab countries, at the 14th meeting of the Arab Permanent Postal Council held in Amman, Jordan.
A high-level delegation from Emirates Post, comprising Mr. Salem Al Shaya, Assistant Director General, Operations, Abdullah Al Zaabi, Director of Research and Development and Nasser Qadoumi, Acting Manager of Postal Operations, took part in the deliberations. The delegation made a special presentation on the speed post service that will ensure mail delivery within two days across the Middle East.
The meeting was presided over by Mr. Edouard Dayan, Director General, Universal Postal Union, and attended by Mr. Mansour Malhas, Director General of Jordan Post and Mr. Najeeb Abu Laras, UPU Consultant for Arab Region.
The participants reviewed the implementation of the Bucharest 2004 postal strategy in the Arab world and identified issues to be raised at the next UPU Congress to be held in Nairobi in 2008.
The meeting discussed the importance of Arab postal corporations creating postal projects under UPU funding, and submitting them before August 1, 2007. They also resolved to help Palestine Post to strengthen its postal network. It also agreed to update the database of all participating postal corporations and appointed officials in each country to forward the information to the Secretariat and Jordan Post within stipulated timeframe.
The participants urged all postal corporations to take part in the stamp exhibition taking place in Doha in September and called for greater participation in other exhibitions in the region.
Read MoreEmirates Post's daily average mail volumes cross 1 million this month
Emirates Post’s Ramoul Sorting Centre handled an average of over 1 million pieces of lettermail per day in the first week of April, against the normal average of between 500,000 and 800,000 pieces.
The increasing mail volumes have prompted Emirates Post to increase the sorting capacity by acquiring more advanced sorting machines, which are due to be installed at Ramoul at the end of 2007, with a capacity of 3 million pieces of mail per day.
‘The rising mail volumes are a reflection of accelerated business activity and booming national economy. These volumes endorse UAE’s position as a major business and tourism hub and demonstrate Emirates Post’s ability to handle such huge volumes,’ said Mr. Abdulla Al Daboos, Director General, Emirates Post.
Incoming mail is sorted at the Ramoul Sorting Centre and dispatched to the respective main and sub post offices within 24 hours, to be deposited in P.O. Boxes before 10 am. The outgoing international mail is sent to the Mail Transit Hub at Dubai airport before 2 a.m., processed using state of the art systems and dispatched by regular flights.
As part of the expansion, Emirates Post is building a new postal operations hub adjacent to the existing sorting centre. The three-storey building will house a highly advanced mail sorting facility as well as offices of Electronic Document Centre (EDC), Emirates Marketing & Promotions (EMP) and Training & Development Centre.
The new machines will increase mail sorting capacity by 10 times. The new mail sorting centre will have the ability to automate registered mail processing, automatically redirect mail, handle large-size envelops and heavier mail, read addresses more rapidly and categorise mail as per P.O. Box numbers.
Read MoreEmirates Post to spend Dh1 billion on expansion drive
Emirates Post, which plans to spend Dh1 billion on an expansion drive within the next 18 months, has set into motion an ambitious programme to acquire 50 aircraft in five years to boost its soon-to-be-launched airfreight activities.
A spokesman of the postal company, quoting Abdullah Ebrahim Al Daboos, director-general, Emirates Post, said yesterday the first two aircraft — Airbus300, each with 44 tonne capacity — will be in operation shortly. As part of the expansion, the company will be adding one aircraft per month. In expanding its freighter division, Emirates Post, which has been pressing ahead with a diversification programme, is believed to follow the DHL, Fedex and UPS models. “The idea is not to rely on private carrier where capacity is usually unavailable because of heavy demand,” he said.
The spokesman, however, did not specify the type of the other aircraft Emirates Post would be adding to its fleet in the coming five years.
Also in the pipeline for UAE’s fast growing national postal company is an IPO proposal, which is awaiting individual sanction from all emirates. “The IPO will be finalised by the end of this month. What is yet to be decided is the IPO’s public-government ratio,” he said.
The spokesman said the air courier service is one of three new companies Emirates Post plans to introduce during 2007, the other two being a trucking company for the GCC and Middle East market and a money management and movement company. The holding group will be known as the Emirates Post Group following sanction of its IPO proposal.
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