Major players rev up parcel delivery trade
Courier services in Eastern Europe have blossomed in recent years and the major players have shown an active interest.
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UPS 1st quarter earnings rise 24percent on strong revenue growth
UPS has reported an 11.3percent increase in revenue and a 24percent gain in net income for the first quarter, reflecting strong results in all three business segments. Scott Davis, UPS’s chief financial officer, pointed to three highlights for the quarter including an increase in average U.S. ground and air volume of nearly 600,000 packages a day, or 5percent; a doubling of international profit to USD269 million, and double-digit revenue growth in the UPS Supply Chain Solutions unit.
Read MoreBlasting US Express Barriers
The U.S. International Trade Commission found that in addition to postal competition, U.S. express delivery companies are impeded abroad by unfair postal competition, inefficient customs practices, costly restrictions and tough barriers against entering new markets in the first place.”We believe this study, which highlights the importance of reducing foreign barriers to express delivery services, now can be used by U.S. negotiators in ongoing and future trade negotiations to obtain strong commitments for our industry,” UPS spokesman David Bolger said.
Read MorePharmaceuticals – Chilled from start to finish
Monitoring the necessary temperature throughout a drug’s total life cycle has become critical to the movement of pharmaceuticals, especially clinical trial products.
Regulatory policies worldwide increasingly require manufacturers to produce complete audit trails recording where a drug was made, with what ingredients, where it was stored and for how long, and where, when and how it was delivered.
UPS highest in delivery customer satisfaction
UPS ranks highest in business customer satisfaction for domestic air, ground and international delivery, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Small-Package Delivery Service Business Customer Satisfaction Study(SM). This study is based on 913 telephone interviews with shipping managers and other business personnel at U.S. businesses that have at least 10 employees at a specific location and spend USD10,000 or more annually to ship small packages (up to 150 lbs.). UPS performs particularly well in all three segments in the areas of shipping and delivery, delivery drivers, delivery tracking and communication.
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