Tag: UK

AMI Quality Express launches a new web-based system

Posted by | Jun 17, 2002 | |

High-volume customers of express wholesaler AMI Quality Express can now offer international courier and heavyweight express services under their own brand name, but supported by real-time tracking information.
The company’s new online service, www. mywaybill. com, enables freight forwarders and express operators which ship more than 250 consignments a month to create barcoded air waybills in their own house style and carrying their logo.
The password-protected domain is designed to generate multiple air waybills quickly, with a batching facility which further streamlines the process when the pressure is really on. A sophisticated piece of programming ties shipper and consignee address books together, bringing additional savings.

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DHL launches a Web Shipping booking facility

Posted by | Jun 17, 2002 | |

DHL has launched a Web Shipping booking facility, which allows registered customers to book a collection via the Internet, track the status of a shipment, e-mail shipment notifications and order supplies online. It is possible to store up to 300 frequently used shipment addresses.
Advice is also available on customs and duty requirements for international shipments.

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Post offices hit in MBI collapse

Posted by | Jun 17, 2002 | |

Europe’s leading post offices head a £10m ( t10.6m) creditors’ list after the collapse in March of wholesaler and lettershop services provider Mail Brokers International.
And there may be more pain to come after holding company MBI Logistics followed Mail Brokers into liquidation last month.
Royal Mail, Parcelforce, Deutsche Post, La Poste, Swisspost and UPS are all owed six-figure sums. But a former MBI member of staff – one of 60 who received no salary or severance pay last month – said it was the smaller creditors he felt sorry for.
Creditors are pressuring the UK DTI to investigate MBI’s directors, accusing them of trading while knowingly insolvent.

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German Parcel Abandons Acquisition Plans

Posted by | Jun 16, 2002 | |

German Parcel, a unit of British postal service Consignia, and its European holding company General Logistics Systems (GLS) have shelved plans to expand their existing European parcel-delivery network through acquisitions.
German Parcel chief executive Rico Back told Handelsblatt that his company, currently the number four in its sector in Germany, will instead use joint ventures and partnerships as a way of closing the gaps in its existing networks.
The company previously made acquisitions in Italy and Finland. The new strategy will now be implemented not only in Norway, Switzerland and Greece but also in Spain, Back said.

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1.5M pounds cash for urban post offices

Posted by | Jun 16, 2002 | |

THE Scottish Executive has agreed 1.5m pounds in funding to help support post offices in urban deprived areas. Details of the scheme are to be worked out between Consignia and the Executive by the end of the calendar year.
The money will go into a central fund to which post offices in these areas can apply for funding to help make local offices viable in areas where otherwise they are struggling financially.
It would mean support could be available for post offices like that in the Lambhill area of Glasgow where there has been widespread local concern about what the loss of the office would mean to the local area.

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