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DHL Global Forwarding achieves worldwide Cargo 2000 Phase 2 certification

Posted by | Apr 3, 2008 | |

DHL Global Forwarding has achieved Phase 2 certification for Cargo 2000’s quality management system that covers the planning, control and measurement of the door-to-door process for air cargo shipments at House Air Waybill level.

The certification is for all DHL Global Forwarding sites worldwide. The company has been working toward global Phase 2 accreditation since gaining certification of its initial pilot stations five years ago.

Phase 2 of the Cargo 2000 program covers all of the intermediate activities performed by freight forwarders, addressing all key milestones in the air cargo quality measurement process for door-to-door deliveries at house air-waybill level. DHL Global Forwarding currently plans, measures and reports more than 300,000 shipments per month within the Cargo 2000 quality system.

The Cargo 2000 program is being implemented in three distinct phases. Phase 1 manages airport-to-airport movements (shipment planning & tracking at MAWB level). Phase 2 provides interactive monitoring of door-to-door movement (shipment planning and tracking at HAWB level). Phase 3 manages shipment planning and tracking at individual piece level plus document tracking.

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DPD Ireland chooses Blackbay and Intermec to deliver mobile workforce solution

Posted by | Apr 3, 2008 | |

Blackbay today announced that DPD Ireland, formerly Interlink Ireland Ltd, has chosen Blackbay’s Delivery Connect mobile tracking solution to enable the real-time online tracking of deliveries for DPD Ireland’s customers. DPD Ireland, owned by La Poste, the French Post Office, and Ireland’s premier provider of next day parcel delivery, has awarded the contract worth in excess of GBP 1 million to Blackbay and global data capture hardware manufacturer Intermec.

The contract will see DPD Ireland implementing Blackbay’s Delivery Connect mobile software solution on Intermec’s integrated GPS and GPRS enabled CN3 rugged mobile computers. The CN3 will be rolled out to 600 couriers who will use the devices to track all deliveries from the point of collection through to proof of delivery.

Delivery Connect running on Intermec’s CN3 will enable DPD Ireland’s customers to track their parcels over the Internet in real-time. Ensuring the exact status and location of each delivery will be available at all times, reducing the need for customer queries.

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FedEx to sort out Heathrow baggage mess

Posted by | Apr 2, 2008 | |

British Airways PLC canceled 50 flights at London Heathrow airport’s new Terminal 5 and brought in US courier firm FedEx Corp. to help reunite passengers with about 20,000 delayed bags.

The airline scrapped 13 percent of scheduled flights from the terminal on the sixth day of disruption at Europe’s busiest airport. Another 50 flights will be abandoned today, a British Airways spokeswoman Sophie Greenyer said.

Cancellations caused by snags in the USD 8.5 billion terminal’s computerized baggage system total more than 300 since it opened on March 27. The number of bags waiting to be returned to their owners has risen by about one-third in the past two days, though British Airways is now beginning to reduce the backlog, it said.

FedEx handled about 800 bags at Heathrow Monday and planned to deliver about that many bags again yesterday, spokeswoman Sally Davenport said. The Memphis, Tenn.-based company has helped British Airways handle passenger baggage in the past, she said.

FedEx is the second-largest US package shipper behind Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc.

British Airways has yet to give guidance on flight cancellations for the rest of the week.

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Prime minister says appeal to Royal Mail, not us

Posted by | Apr 2, 2008 | |

The Prime Minister has sought to shift responsibility for the threat of closure facing post offices.

Gordon Brown insists the decisions about which branches to close are being made by the Post Office, not the Government. He said that if people had a strong case over the planned closure of their local branch they could appeal, with cases going to Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton if necessary.

Devon will find out in late May which post offices will be closed as part of a government overhaul of the network.

More than one in six branches in the area could go, among the 2,500 to be shut across the country.

Mr Brown said four million fewer people a week were using post offices than two years ago, and the network was losing GBP 3.5m a week.

“To keep 11,500 post offices going, the changes are being made now,” he said. “These decisions are not being made by us – the Government – but by the Post Office.

“They have come to us, and got more money from us, to enable them to carry out a programme that will cost us GBP 1.7bn over the next few years.

“Thousands of post offices remain in existence as a result of the help that we are giving.”

During a parliamentary debate over the closures many Labour MPs and Ministers were accused of hypocrisy for opposing closure of individual branches but backing the overall programme.

Mr Brown said complaints against specific closures should be aimed at Post Office bosses, not government Ministers.

He said: “It’s the Post Office that’s prepared to reconsider the individual closure decisions under the appeal network, and the appeal can go finally to Allan Leighton.”

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