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DHL breaks ground on new Chicagoland Service Center

Posted by | Aug 29, 2006 | |

DHL, the world’s leading global express delivery and logistics company, today announced it has broken ground on a new, modernized service center operation just two blocks south of O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, IL. DHL will invest USD7 million in the new 78,960-sq.-ft facility, which will serve DHL’s local pickup, delivery and sorting operations. The new DHL Chicago service center is expected to be operational by early 2007.

This is the second recent major facility investment by DHL to enhance operations in the Chicago area. In September 2005, DHL opened a new 70,000-sq.-ft facility on West Cermak Road serving the Chicago loop area and providing pickup and delivery services for DHL’s largest customers in the financial, legal, and banking industries. The new airport area facility will feature state-of-the-art conveyors and sorting systems to process a higher volume of customer shipments more quickly throughout the area.

The new facility, located closer to the main artery off Mannheim Road to improve DHL customer access, will handle a wide variety of shipments – including domestic and international parcels as well as palletized, loose-load and container freight.

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Royal Mail to copy Unipart share scheme

Posted by | Aug 27, 2006 | |

Royal Mail plans to model its controversial employee share scheme on one that has delivered thousands of pounds of profit to workers at Unipart.

The Unipart scheme has been running since John Neill, Unipart’s chief executive, led a buyout of the business from British Leyland in 1987. The scheme is credited with transforming the company’s relationship with its 10,000 workers.

The Government is keen on the scheme, which it says it does not regard as a first step to privatisation. But a change in legislation is required for it to go through and more than 200 Labour MPs have threatened to vote against it.

An employee share scheme is also fiercely opposed by the Union of Communication Workers – which has threatened to withhold its Pounds 200,000 contribution to the Labour Party if the Government gives the green light.

Royal Mail regards employee share ownership as part of a wider shake-up that will see the Government help it to deal with its pension deficit by freeing up cash for investment to help it compete with private firms.

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DHL launches Import Express Online in Venezuela

Posted by | Aug 27, 2006 | |

Jorge Lavignasse, general director of DHL Express Venezuela, states that by the end of this year his firm will have grown 20%. The group already controls an alleged 60%-plus of the local express (goods) transport market. Its new tool known as Import Express Online, a system for the control of dispatches via Internet to make the importer’s work more efficient is paying off well (it will cost around Bolivar dollars 550mil to install for the whole of Venezuela). DHL Express Venezuela, in the knowledge that the nation is a going and growing business concern, should be able to grow sales 20% this year thanks to the value-added services it is offering: not only does it transport merchandise but it helps speed up bureaucratic proceedures at customs for imports or exports it is handling.
Import Express Online is being applied worldwide and supplements other services DHL already offers such as DHL Importa (call-centre help-line) and DHL Personal Import (customer attention for those who carry out sporadic imports).

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FedEx Express and ALPA Announce Tentative Labor Agreement

Posted by | Aug 27, 2006 | |

FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX), and the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l. (ALPA), the collective bargaining representative for FedEx Express pilots, jointly announced today that they reached a tentative agreement (TA) on a new labor contract on Saturday evening. Negotiations have been conducted under the guidance of the National Mediation Board since October 2005 and both parties acknowledged the Board’s support.

The new agreement is subject to review and finalization of contract language, which is expected to be completed shortly. Terms of the tentative agreement are not being released as they first must be reviewed and approved by the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council (MEC). If approved, the TA will be subject to a ratification vote by about 4,700 FedEx pilots and if ratified, the four-year contract would become amendable in 2010.

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FedEx ranked Top Express Brand in China

Posted by | Aug 24, 2006 | |

FedEx Express (FedEx), a subsidiary of FedEx Corp and the world’s largest express transportation company, is the Number One Express Delivery Brand in China. It is also one of the overall Top 10 Executive Brands in China, according to a survey conducted by a leading management magazine, Chief Executive China. In a statement here today, FedEx said the survey results showed that 44 percent of the respondents named it the most-admired brand in the express delivery services category. Among respondents who use express delivery services, 96 percent said they are current users of express delivery services and 95 percent said they would use the service in the coming 12 months, it said. Now in its second year, the survey included 19 product categories regularly used by executives in China. The results were based on a group of measurements including brand admiration, brand advantage, brand market share, brand preference, brand vitality and relevance to China’s business executives.

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