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UPS rules out exit from Clark even as it plans China move

Posted by | Aug 4, 2005 | |

UPS has signed an agreement with the Chinese government on the establishment of an international air hub at the Pudong International Airport in 2007.

A ranking UPS official, however, said the company will not abandon its operations in Clark, Pampanga in favor of China.

“Clark is very important for us. We will continue to do business there. Our intra-Asia hub there is seen to complement the planned international hub in China,” UPS Chief Operating Officer John Beystehner said on the sidelines of a technology summit here.

He said the location of UPS’ hub in Pampanga, which opened in 2002, allows the company to connect to major business centers in the region within a four-hour flight.

However, the planned global facility in China will handle international operations and take advantage of the fast-growing Chinese market.

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USPS raises the bar in overnight delivery

Posted by | Aug 3, 2005 | |

The U.S. Postal Service once again reached its all-time high-score of 96 percent on-time performance for overnight delivery of First-Class Mail. The assessment, measured independently by IBM Consulting Services, was announced today during the agency’s Board of Governors meeting in California. This achievement marks ten consecutive measurement periods that the organization reached a 95 percent or better score for on-time overnight delivery of First-Class Mail. This third quarter measurement for fiscal year 2005 also cites increases in two- and three-day service performance scores from the previous reporting. Two-day is 92 percent, up from 90 percent; and three-day – which is carried by air – is at 90 percent, up from 83 percent. This report provides an independent assessment of the time it takes a piece of First-Class Mail, once it’s deposited into a collection box, to be delivered to one of more than 143.7 million American homes, businesses and Post Office boxes.

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DHL Executives debate next phase of US market strategy

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

With their expansion into the U.S. market on track and nearly complete, DHL executives face a fresh debate: How much profit can they realistically expect in the U.S. as they compete with larger, more-recognizable rivals?

That’s the next phase of attack of the U.S. market, said DHL Chief Executive John Mullen in an interview Friday with Dow Jones.

“We will enter 2006 with a fully integrated business. That’s a huge plus, because you’re not looking inward anymore,” Mullen said. But he added: “Integration doesn’t yet bring profitability.”

The company, which began its challenge to entrenched U.S. delivery companies United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corp. (FDX) in 2003 by buying Airborne Inc., is on track to break even in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of next year. But while DHL is a large and well-known express delivery company around the globe, it’s smaller in the U.S. than its main rivals.

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DHL raises ante on RFID

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

The race to deploy radio-frequency identification technology moved into a new stage. A major carrier has jumped into the mix, which may prompt shippers to take a fresh look at the technology. In June, DHL said it will place RFID tags on all of the more than 1 billion packages it ships annually by 2015, becoming the first major package carrier to commit to a complete RFID rollout by a certain date. “They’ve made it very clear they’re going to spend whatever it takes for RFID,” said Bob Berg, RFID manager at DHL Americas. The development generated predictions that DHL’s plan will advance the technology’s maturation and spur shippers to give it a closer look. “By 2015, RFID will already have established itself as the primary track-and-trace technology,” said Jack Grasso, senior director of corporate communications at GS1 U.S., the automated identification standards development and implementation body formerly known as the Uniform Code Council.

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DHL expands US SCS

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

DHL on Monday said it has expanded its DHL Solutions unit in the American marketplace. The move combines the logistics activities of three former Americas business units — Express Logistics, Airborne Logistics Services, and Solutions — into the global DHL Solutions business unit. DHL Solutions offers customized end-to-end supply chain services ranging from consulting and supply chain design to warehousing, distribution logistics and order management. The unit is located at DHL’s U.S. headquarters in Plantation, Fla. It operates in 27 countries across the Western Hemisphere, with main distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and more than 3,500 employees. Operations include 28 logistics centers and nearly 200 strategic parts centers with a total storage capacity of approximately 8 million square feet. DHL’s global reach includes 33 million square feet of global warehouse space in more than 300 logistics centers in Europe, the Middle East/Africa, Americas, and Asia.

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