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US express delivery firms biggest winners from China aviation deal

Posted by | May 24, 2007 | |

The biggest beneficiaries from the further opening of US-China aviation are likely to be US express delivery firms such as United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing industry sources.

A FedEx Corp executive was quoted as saying that the agreement will bring his company ‘virtually unfettered access’ to China beginning in 2011, the newspaper reported.

China’s market for express delivery is expanding by an average 28 pct a year – the fastest in Asia. The market, valued at 4.4 bln USD last year, will grow to 5.8 bln in 2007.

Under a pact agreed to on Wednesday, US and China agreed to begin talks in 2010 on an ‘open skies’ agreement.

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How not to let culture issues defeat mergers

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

Eight months after acquiring the semi-express carrier Speedage, mail company TNT India is still integrating the two entities.

It was in September 2006 that global express logistics major TNT, one of the world’s leading business to business express delivery companies, acquired the Indian semi-express carrier, Speedage.

This acquisition added 514 depots, 26 transit hubs, 730 vehicles and 1,195 employees (and about 1,300 sub-contracted staff) to TNT’s existing resources. The current staff strength of TNT in India is 2,500 people.

Eight months later, Abhik Mitra, managing director of TNT India, feels that they have reached a comfortable position as far as transformation and integration issues are concerned. At the time of the takeover the TNT management was clear that it would not implement its own processes from the very next day.

The real work, adds Mitra, started once the deal was sealed. Speedage and all its 1,300 employees were put through to a phased transformation and integration process.

The first few months were all about communication and sharing. The TNT culture and values programme was shared with the Speedage employees, as were the short-term goals of the merger and the long-term ambitions from it.

The second and third months were dedicated to making the changes within the organisation and sharing the TNT value system with them. Then began the cultural training, continuing until the fifth month.

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Earth Class Mail Finalist in CNET Webware 100

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

Earth Class Mail™, a global service that delivers postal mail online, is a finalist for CNET’s “Webware 100” awards.

The Earth Class Mail online postal service gives customers online access to their postal mail from anywhere in the world, at any time.

Editors selected Earth Class Mail from nearly 2,000 companies as one of the best Web 2.0 sites and services in the world. Other finalists in the communications category include technology giants such as AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Users vote for their favorite 10 companies in 10 selected categories.

“We’re honored to be a finalist in the Webware 100,” says Ron Wiener, CEO of Earth Class Mail Corporation. “It is very humbling to be in a position of competing with major technology players such as Microsoft and Google. It is a great endorsement of what we are doing for our customers – allowing them to be 100 percent mobile by managing their postal mail from anywhere,” he added.
Earth Class Mail™ receives customers’ mail each day, scans the outside of the sealed envelopes and presents these images to the customer online. The customer then determines whether to have the mail opened and scanned, shredded, recycled, transferred elsewhere, or forward-shipped – similar to how people manage voice mails and emails.

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UPS

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

UPS announced its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles – already the industry’s largest – had expanded with the deployment of 50 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks.

The 50 hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) will operate in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. These new trucks join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use.

“We’re excited to be among the first to deploy the latest in HEV technology because it promises a 45% increase in fuel economy in addition to a dramatic decrease in vehicle emissions,” said Robert Hall, Director of UPS Ground Fleet Engineering.

The 50 new HEV package cars are expected to reduce fuel consumption by roughly 44,000 gallons over the course of a year compared to an equivalent number of traditional diesel trucks. The hybrids also should reduce by 457 metric tons the amount of CO2 gases released annually into the atmosphere.

The new hybrid power system allows UPS to use a smaller diesel engine than would be required in a conventional delivery truck, thus saving on fuel and pollution-causing emissions. A battery pack, motor/generator and power control system are added, which allows electric power to be fed into the powertrain when conditions demand it, providing further savings.

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Microlise, DHL and Aeroscout pioneer new monitoring solution

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

DHL in partnership with Microlise and AeroScout, has developed a dynamic new system for the pharmaceutical industry which enables the real-time monitoring of product shipment temperatures throughout an extended supply chain using RFID sensors.

DHL, Microlise and AeroScout partnered with a leading healthcare company to develop a system that will help customers better meet temperature compliance regulations set within the pharmaceutical industry. With this system, we will have full real-time visibility of the location and temperature of it’s the pharmaceutical shipments throughout the supply chain, through a web browser linked to the Microlise Transport Management Centre (TMC) software. The TMC enables real time tracking of the vehicle position along with the temperature indication from the Wi-Fi-Based AeroScout Active RFID tags which are used to monitor the shipments.

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