Tag: USA

TNT Singapore launches Clinical Express exclusive service into US

Posted by | Jun 22, 2005 | |

TNT Express Singapore has launched a next-day, door-to-door delivery service of diagnostic samples and clinical supplies for central laboratories in Asia to the USA. By leveraging on TNT’s new partnership with US company AirNet Systems, TNT Express not only provides the best-in-class transit times, but also a range of value-added services such as certified packaging and fulfilment of the frozen consignment. This is an additional development of “Clinical Express Exclusive” that was launched globally last year. Clinical trial shipments from Asia to the US are set to double by 2006 and are seen as a key area of growth for clinical trial logistics. Currently, Asia-US shipments account for about 10% of the industry estimated to be worth USD30 million a year – half of which originate in Singapore.

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UPS tracking progress on business sustainability goals

Posted by | Jun 22, 2005 | |

UPS today reinforced its ongoing commitment to balancing economic, social and environmental objectives by releasing the company’s third annual Corporate Sustainability Report. The report demonstrates UPS is moving forward on a number of important goals, including increasing fuel efficiency, lowering aircraft emissions and reducing employee injury rates. Additionally, this year’s report includes more global information than ever before. “At UPS, we’re never satisfied with the status quo,” observed Mike Eskew, UPS’s chairman and CEO. “And with today’s increasingly interdependent world, sustainable business practices add up to smart business practices.”

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Committee approves Collins-Carper postal reform legislation

Posted by | Jun 22, 2005 | |

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved postal reform legislation introduced by Senators Susan Collins and Tom Carper. The Collins-Carper Postal Accountability And Enhancement Act represents the first major overhaul of the USPS since 1970. Their legislation will strengthen the USPS, which is the linchpin of a USD900 billion mailing industry that employs more than 9 million people nationwide. Senator Collins is the Chairman and Senator Carper is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the USPS. The Committee today approved the postal reform legislation by a vote of 15 to 1. It must now be considered by the Senate.

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USPS Financials, revenue and mail volume up

Posted by | Jun 21, 2005 | |

For the USPS’s fiscal 2005 year to date (Oct. 1, 2004, through May 31, 2005), total revenue was USD47.3 billion, which was USD1.1 billion better than planned budget. Total expenses of USD45.5 billion was USD221.4 million under plan. There was also good news on the volume front. Total year-to-date mail volume was up 3.0%. Broken down by class, First-Class volume was up 0.2%, Standard Mail was up 6.1%, Priority Mail was up 4.2%, Express Mail was up 1.6%, Periodicals was up 0.1%, Package Services was up 2.2%, and International was down 0.4%.

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The USPS engages Servigistics to transform service parts operations

Posted by | Jun 13, 2005 | |

Award-Winning Service Parts Management Solution Selected to Reduce Inventory, Maintain High Service Levels and Achieve Service Network Visibility for Nation’s Postal Service

Servigistics, the leading provider of service parts management solutions, announced today that The United States Postal Service (“USPS”) will implement the Servigistics solution to manage its nationwide service parts network, as part of the company’s new Enhanced Spare Parts Initiative (“eSPIN Initiative”).

With more than USD350 million in service parts inventory supporting approximately 500 field stocking locations around the country, the USPS is replacing its first-generation service parts planning software with the Servigisitcs Service Parts Management Solution to maintain its high rate of mail processing equipment uptime, critical for the movement of postal mail product, while reducing excess inventory, increasing inventory turns, lowering costs and improving visibility across its service parts network.

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