TNT lands software contract
TNT Express is to ship more than 60,000 consignments a year from 36 BMC Software locations in countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It will also deliver BMC marketing material.
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Kuehne & Nagel profile
“With the acquisition of US company Usco Logistics. which was formally completed in June (see ITJ 232001,page 10). and the alliance and equity swap with SembCorp Logistics. Singapore (see ITJ 502000, page 15), we have now risen to the top ranks of globally active 3- and 4PLs (Third and Fourth Party Logistics Providers),>> explained Klaus-Michael KUhnc, president of the board of directors at Kuehnc & Nagel AG (KN), at a press conference in Zurich last week.
Read MoreChanges to airmail letter rates
Royal Mail is advising customers that new prices for international postcards, letters, small packets and printed papers to destinations outside Europe come into effect on July 4th 2002.
The overall increase in prices is 4.8 which is within the Retail Price Index limits allowable under the terms of the operating licence issued to Consignia, Royal Mail’s holding company, by Postcomm.
UPS opens Asia hub in Philippines
UPS opened its intra-Asia air hub in the Philippines, a
central sorting point within four hours from major Asian
cities.
The intra-Asia hub opens one year after UPS began direct
flight service between the United States and China. That
service has exceeded the company’s expectations for revenue,
volume and profitability, UPS stated.
Located at the former Clark United States Air Force Base near
the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, UPS can use a
23,000-square-foot hub.
Recent studies by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
project a 7-to-18 percent increase in air cargo traffic in
Southeast Asia over the next 20 years.
Managing online returns
how do you send your goods back to an Internet company if they don’t fit or won’t work? That’s the question that has exercised almost every home shopper at one time or another; and if it troubles them, it troubles the e-tailers just as much. Pioneers soon realised they risked losing face, and business, if they didn’t get their returns policy right. Far from all of them have grasped this nettle adequately so far; but at least most of them seem now to have recognised the need to do so.
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