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Panalpina introduces new airfreight service to Latin America

Posted by | Apr 9, 2008 | |

Panalpina, together with its partner Centurion Air Cargo, has launched a new service – Palmair – linking its worldwide network with Latin America via the Miami, Florida gateway.

Panalpina will offer a direct transhipment concept for destinations in Latin America.

Miami serves as both Centurion Air Cargo’s base as well as Panalpina’s gateway to Latin America for freight originating from Europe, Asia and North America.

With the new concept, the two companies establish a link between the Latin American connections of Centurion and Panalpina’s European Road Feeder Network with its hub in Luxembourg.

Centurion has subcontracted the first leg to Luxembourg-based Cargolux – also one of Panalpina’s major business partners. This set-up gives Panalpina total control of the entire cargo flow from origin to destination.

The main destinations served through the new service are Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla (all in Columbia), Caracas (Venezuela), Lima (Peru) and Manaus (Brazil), amongst others.

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Pitney Bowes clients say Intelligent Mail Barcode gets top priority

Posted by | Apr 8, 2008 | |

By May 2009, the Intelligent Mail initiative is expected to become a critical element for USPS automation discounts. The Intelligent Mail Barcode will be required on all letters and flats in order to earn maximum postal discounts. As of May 2010, its predecessor, the POSTNET Barcode, is expected to no longer qualify for automation prices. Considerable discounts for the Intelligent Mail Barcode will likely encourage prompt migration to the new standard.

At a recent Pitney Bowes customer conference held in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, high volume mailers indicated that Intelligent Mail Barcode implementation is at the top of the list for 2008 strategic planning.

Today, commercial mail envelopes contain a number of sections from which automated mail machines electronically read information. The new Intelligent Mail Barcode will combine all these encryptions into one barcode representing 31 digits. Each barcode can uniquely identify each mail piece while it is traveling through the mailstream.

The simplified and unified barcode will help speed delivery, leverage customer intelligence, continue to help deliver lower postal rates and will create efficiencies in presorting mail.

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UPS Lowers 1Q 2008 Guidance

Posted by | Apr 8, 2008 | |

UPS today announced it had lowered its first quarter earnings expectations to USD 0.86 or USD 0.87 per diluted share from a previously anticipated range of USD 0.94-to-0.98.

At UPS’s investor conference on March 12, Chief Financial Officer Kurt Kuehn stated that UPS’s earnings guidance for the quarter would be difficult to achieve if lower volume trends experienced in February continued through March. The U.S. economy has continued to weaken, causing a reduction in domestic package volume and a shift away from premium products. Significantly increased fuel costs in the quarter also contributed to the lower-than-expected results.

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U.S. Postal Service introduces recycling by mail

Posted by | Apr 8, 2008 | |

The U.S. Postal service has piloted a program that accepts small electronics and inkjet cartridges from individuals who want to “recycle” them by mail.

Postage-free envelopes are available at 1,500 pilot centers located in California, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Baltimore, Md for people to send in old cell phones, personal data assistants, MP3 players, digital cameras, iPods, inkjet cartridges and other small electronic items.

The Postal Service is testing the program in several states and, if successful, may launch the program on a national scale.

Clover Technologies Group, a company that recycles and remarkets inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges and small electronics, has offered to foot the bill. It then remanufactures or remarkets the mailed items. In cases where the items can’t be remade, the component parts are reused or broken down further and the materials recycled.

The USPS says it awarded the contract to Clover because of its “zero waste to landfill” policy.

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