Tag: UPS

Delivery firms rack up parking tickets

Posted by | Sep 1, 2006 | |

Commercial delivery companies such as UPS, FedEx and others pay a steep price for doing business in New York City, getting an average of 7,000 parking tickets every day and paying more than USD102 million in fines.

The parking violations turned into such a bureaucratic nightmare that the city created a program to reduce or dismiss the tickets in exchange for companies waiving their right to contest them. The program has eliminated 770,000 ticket hearings and saved USD1 million in administrative costs per year since it began two years ago.

The companies are also saving cash, although their annual New York City parking tab is still high because some tickets are not covered under the program.

UPS has a fleet of 1,000 trucks and receives about 15,000 tickets a month here. The company is the biggest offender in the city, paying USD18.7 million in parking violations for the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to city data. FedEx was second with USD8.2 million.

“We receive by far more parking fines in New York City than anywhere else in the world,” UPS spokeswoman Diane Hatcher said. “Simply stated, we don’t have the same level of difficulty with finding available parking spaces or loading zones anywhere else.”

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Made in America

Posted by | Aug 21, 2006 | |

What do blue jeans, DVDs, moisturizer and athletic shoes have in common? They are among the American products that Chinese consumers desire most, according to a UPS survey of 1,200 middle-class consumers in six Chinese cities.

The second annual UPS survey of Chinese urban consumers – often referred to as “Chuppies” – reaffirms their demand for high-quality U.S. products and unearths more detailed insight into their buying preferences and demographic differences. UPS, which flies to more points in China than any other U.S. airline, commissioned the survey to help its customers do business in the world’s fastest-growing market.

“The survey highlights the need for small-to-mid-sized businesses to be prepared and focused on exactly what it is they want to accomplish by entering China,” said Kevin M. O’Connell, senior partner of the law firm O’Connell and Co., which handles foreign direct investment and general business matters in China. “They need to set themselves apart from their competition and from the large multi-nationals and market to a very specific niche.”

The most sought-after products in this year’s survey were American videos/DVDs, music or books and consumer electronics – which also were the top categories in the 2005 survey.

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EMS quickens deliveries to regain share

Posted by | Aug 16, 2006 | |

Express Mail Service (EMS), operated by state-owned China Courier Service Corp., has sped up its deliveries in a bid to regain its decreasing market share.

Now it takes just more than ten hours to deliver an express mail from Shanghai to Beijing, about two hours shorter than before. Moreover, EMS deliverers are dressed in orange, a change from the former green, and equipped with data collection machines, which provide timely information about the delivery process.

With millions of Chinese yuan put into upgrading facilities, adjusting networks and improving systems, EMS has accelerated both inside and outside the country.

It is the biggest move for EMS since it started twenty-six years ago. It has finally got moving when the Chinese express market is crowded with more and more privately owned express companies and global logistics titans.

EMS’ acceleration is mainly depending on upgrading equipment and optimizing operation, an upgrading model focusing on technologies.

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DHL Algerie ranks 1st express delivery company in Algeria

Posted by | Aug 16, 2006 | |

DHL Algerie, the Algerian unit of International express and logistics company DHL, a subsidiary of German post office Deutsche Post, tops the list of Algeria’s biggest express delivery companies for international deliveries, according to information of Algeria’s post and telecommunications regulation authority ARPT published on August 16, 2006.
DHL Algerie generated a turnover of 609 mln Algerian dinars (USD 8.6 mln/6.7 mln euro) in 2005 and increased order backlog by 25 pct year-on-year.

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Rail service better

Posted by | Aug 16, 2006 | |

North American rail service improved in the second quarter and year over year, according to Bear Stearns’s quarterly survey of 1,000 shippers.

The survey respondents named CSX, Canadian National, and Canadian Pacific as having the most improved service.

Although 28 percent of the shippers still expect rail service to deteriorate during the peak season, this is down considerably from 53 percent a year ago.

Shippers expect to pay a 4.4-percent average rail rate increase in 2006, meaningfully up from 3.7 percent in the first quarter and 3.5 percent a year ago. Forty-four percent of the survey respondents described full-truckload capacity as “balanced;” 34 percent described the full-truckload market as “tight” and 22 percent as “over capacity.” For the first time since 2001, no respondent saw “extremely tight” capacity. The survey found shippers see even greater less-than-truckload capacity availability.

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