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Firm that Mick built links with pallet giants

Palletline plc has brought on board the Morecambe-based firm J M Gorry & Son Ltd – founded in 1969 by Mick Gorry with just one vehicle – as the latest member of its network.

The company, which now has three generations of the family working at its premises on the White Lund Industrial Estate and operates around 40 vehicles, will cover the large LA postcode area – which covers Lancaster and Morecambe – for Palletline from April 1.

They have invested a six-figure sum in readiness to join the Palletline network, by changing vehicle liveries, hiring two new staff and bringing online a new 8,000 sq ft building, which will also be used for undercover trans-shipping.

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DHL enhances domestic next day air product portfolio

DHL has announced significant enhancements to its suite of domestic Next Day Air products though a major expansion of its service coverage across the U.S. DHL is also enhancing its money back guarantee for DHL Next Day 10:30 AM and DHL Saturday Delivery services.

DHL’s portfolio of Next Day Air products includes DHL Next Day 10:30 AM, DHL Next Day 12:00 PM, and DHL Next Day 3:00 PM — complemented by DHL Same Day service for the most time-critical shipments. DHL is the only U.S. express delivery provider with the flexibility to offer both 10:30 AM and 12:00 PM delivery service options.

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DHL Appoints EVP for US Network

Package shipping firm DHL Express Americas named Charles Brewer, a longtime company executive overseas, as executive vice president of U.S. air products and services in an effort to help bolster its ailing U.S. business. DHL said Brewer has been with the company 21 years, recently managed its operations in Malaysia and also held senior jobs in the Asia-Pacific region and the United Kingdom. Express Joint CEO John Mullen said Brewer brings to his U.S. position “a track record of success at DHL in markets overseas.” Parent Deutsche Post recently said its fourth-quarter earnings were weighed down by DHL’s U.S. performance, where the express operation that was ramping up against market leaders FedEx and UPS lost customers after merging two separate air hubs last September into its Wilmington, Ohio, facility. DHL subsequently said it will directly take control of the inter-city trucking operations that were formerly managed by ABX Air, the company that provides most airplanes used by DHL Express and operates its package-sort hubs.

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DHL to enter Argentina logistics segment

DHL, the Argentinian filial of the German group and one of four firms operating international mail systems in Argentina (along with Holland’s TNT and the US pair FedEx and UPS), is now to enter the logistics sector in Argentina. The national filial will post a turnover of US$40mil in 2006 – up by 20% on 2005 – and will focus on the door-to-door solutions niche: it hopes to attain a 20percent share of the segment in two years, the segment moving USD50mil annually overall. The firm will invest USD2mil in starting up in this area nationally and USD1.7mil in the international implications.

DHL ranks top of the courier exports charts with 50percent of the pie (in terms of kilos carried). It employs 527 people in Argentina.

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