Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is setting up a dedicated division focusing totally on integrated logistics services.
Hellmann Integrated Logistics Solutions will be headquartered in Miami and headed by Michael Claus, MD of Hellmann Network Inc, but will operate globally.
Jost Hellmann, managing partner of the group, said integration supply chain solutions were in growing demand from customers.
Read MoreAn administrative law judge will resolve the dispute over the ownership of DHL Airways as part of an amendment to the USD79 billion Wartime Supplemental Appropriations bill approved by the House and Senate on Saturday. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, also prohibits DHL Airways from carrying Defense Department cargo for the next six months. DHL had no comment on the amendment. UPS said it “reaffirms UPS’s longstanding concern regarding Deutsche Post’s ownership and control of DHL Airways.” UPS added that it looks forward to “the expeditious appointment of an administrative law judge.”
Read MoreDuring the opening session of one of the premier gatherings of business mailers, mailing industry leaders and postal managers – the National Postal
Forum – Postmaster General John E. Potter told the thousands of attendees in the
audience, “Now is the time to revitalize the mailing industry. Now is the time for us to modernize the Postal Service. And now is the time for us to work together to make the most of a long period of postage rates stability.”
PostalAnnex+, the nation’s second ranked postal services franchise, today announced that they will continue to provide customers with a choice in shipping. Amid news of competitor MBE undergoing a massive franchise renaming effort, PostalAnnex+ points out that this will mean a reduction in shipping options provided by the newly branded UPS Stores, which will no longer be part of the FedEx Authorized ShipCenter(R) program. PostalAnnex+ sees a huge opportunity to step in and fill the void left by the competition. All of its 270 service centers are both UPS Authorized Shipping Outlets as well as FedEx Authorized ShipCenters.
Read MoreStephen Flowers, a veteran UPS manager with wide international experience, is the new president of the UPS Americas Region, which includes more than 50 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean. Flowers, 41, moves to the Americas headquarters in Miami where he will succeed Jovita Carranza, who will become the vice president of UPS air operations in Louisville, Ky. Carranza is replacing John J. McDevitt, who last week was promoted to UPS’s Management Committee, the group of most senior managers who direct the corporation’s business affairs.
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