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UPS sees growth despite higher fuel costs, prices

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

United Parcel Service Inc. expects business to keep growing even as it passes higher fuel costs on to customers, its chief executive told a newspaper.
“So far we have detected no signs that business is declining,” Michael Eskew said in a interview to be published in Thursday’s Financial Times Deutschland.
Sales volume has not dipped, he said, even though UPS is passing on higher fuel costs directly to clients and airmail packages have become 7.5 percent more expensive to send. Rival Fedex told Reuters in an interview earlier this week that escalating fuel costs are no threat to its business as they are being offset by higher productivity and efficiency.

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TNT appoints automotive logistics manager

Posted by | Aug 26, 2004 | |

TNT Logistics North America has appointed Stan Czeczotka manager of business development in its growing automotive logistics sector. He will be responsible for new business development for logistics services within the Tier 1 supplier ranks for automotive manufacturers. Czeczotka spent the last 15 years in the Tier 1 automotive community, working in the plastics, stamping, sensor and instrument-manufacturing industries.

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UPS Expands Real-World Testing of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology

Posted by | Aug 26, 2004 | |

Buoyed by initial road-test results and significant technological advancements, UPS today announced the U.S. deployment of its first three large package delivery vehicles utilizing hydrogen fuel cells for power. “Shifting away from a fossil fuel based economy to a hydrogen economy would be a great environmental and technological achievement,” said Chris Mahoney, UPS senior vice president of global transportation services. “UPS now is jumping from a small fuel cell car to a medium-duty truck. We will continue the rapid application of this technology in hopes that in the near future, we can deploy zero-emission engines across our fleet of 88,000 vehicles.”

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US Postal Service selects Auto-trol Technology’s KONFIG CM

Posted by | Aug 24, 2004 | |

Auto-trol Technology Corporation (Auto-trol), the leader in enterprise configuration management solutions, has announced that the United States Postal Service (USPS) Engineering Department has selected KONFIG CM as its configuration management solution. KONFIG CM will support the USPS efforts to enhance its configuration management (CM) capabilities and implement its CM processes based upon the CMII® methodology.

By choosing Auto-trol’s KONFIG CM, the US Postal Service obtains the highest rated CM tool as certified by the Institute of Configuration Management (www.icmhq.com). Implementing KONFIG CM, provides the USPS the ability to automate existing manual CM processes, maintain equipment configurations and migrate information from several older systems into a single, comprehensive and easy to use solution.

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US FedEx flies even higher

Posted by | Aug 24, 2004 | |

Given all the dark clouds hanging over the economy, FedEx’s news couldn’t have come at a better time. On Aug. 23, the shipping giant raised its profit forecast for both its fiscal first quarter and full year, and it said it would boost capital spending.
The bullish report from FedEx comes at a time when concerns are growing as to whether surging oil prices will precipitate a pullback in spending by both consumers and businesses. But FedEx — which, like other transportation companies, is entering its busiest months as retailers begin building inventories for the upcoming holiday season — says it doesn’t foresee a slowdown.
“We’re seeing strong demand across our international express, ground, and less-than-truckload services,” Alan B. Graf Jr., FedEx’s chief financial officer, said in a statement.

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