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DHL Launches “Virtual Warehouse” for US Importers

Posted by | Nov 9, 2005 | |

DHL today announced the launch of the DHL Danzas Air & Ocean Consolidated Distribution Service (CDS), a new service that allows customers to reduce brokerage fees and shorten delivery times for U.S. imports from Asia, Europe and Latin America. During the pilot stage of the service with U.S.-based customers, CDS reduced cycle times and improved time-to-market; eliminated warehousing and distribution center costs; and reduced inventory carrying costs and customs clearance costs for several large DHL shipping customers, while providing point-to-point tracking services. DHL is now offering the service to all high-volume U.S. importers looking to streamline their supply chain.

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UPU and UNI sign agreement to promote social dialogue among postal sector partners

Posted by | Nov 8, 2005 | |

The Universal Postal Union (UPU) and Union Network International (UNI) have signed a cooperation agreement to promote social dialogue aimed at the sustainable development of postal services at the international level. The agreement was signed at UPU Headquarters in Berne, Switzerland, by UPU
Director General Edouard Dayan and UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings.
In terms of the agreement, the two organizations will establish joint actions focusing on the impact of postal sector development on jobs, particularly in the area of health and security, as well as the improvement and development of postal staff skills. The two organizations also agreed to continue to
promote the provision of postal financial services – particularly electronic money transfer services – through the international postal network. This is not only seen as an important source of job creation, but also as an essential service to give millions of migrant workers and their relatives – among them the
world’s poorest – access to affordable money transfer services.

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Deutsche Bahn to buy BAX Global

Posted by | Nov 7, 2005 | |

Deutsche Bahn, the German state-owned railway company, is preparing to acquire BAX Global, the U.S. freight forwarder, in a bid to catch up with the consolidation sweeping the global logistics industry. Europe’s biggest railway operator is likely to pay between $960 million and $1.2 billion for Irvine, Calif.-based BAX, a unit of the Brink’s Co., a security and logistics company. Deutsche Bahn will decide whether to proceed with the acquisition at an extraordinary meeting of its supervisory board on Saturday, according to German press reports. Deutsche Bahn is expected to fold BAX into Schenker, its freight forwarding unit that has been under pressure to match recent takeovers by rivals, most recently Deutsche Post’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Exel, the UK’s largest ocean and air freight forwarder and contract logistics company, and Swiss-based Kuehne & Nagel’s $588 million acquisition of Paris-based ACR Logistics from Platinum Equity Group, a private U.S. investors group.

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UK Royal Mail hit as bank junk mail falls

Posted by | Nov 5, 2005 | |

A drop in credit card junk mail has hit Royal Mail’s core business, with volumes for flagship products falling up to 7 per cent in the six months to September, the postal operator has revealed.

Royal Mail’s regulator said the new figures were forcing it to rework the calculations underlying price controls to be finalised this month. Royal Mail attributes the fall in its volumes – the first for 25 years, bar a dip three years ago – to a general economic slowdown and the impact of competition.

High street banks are sending less direct mail than last year, due in part to a switch from blanket to targeted mailshots, according to the Direct Mail Information Service. Such fluctuations in volumes, with banks easing off hard-sell mailshots when personal debt levels are rising, are inevitable, said Royal Mail.

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New move brings Irish postal competition one step nearer

Posted by | Nov 5, 2005 | |

The Chief executive of An Post, Donal Curtin, has written to the communications regulator formally requesting that the company be excused from its legal obligation to provide a postal service.

It is the first time a derogation has been sought under a regulatory regime established in 2002 and, according to sources, formally clears the way for regulator Comreg to ask Communications Minister Noel Dempsey to introduce early competition into the market.

The Communications Workers’ Union, which represents postal workers, announced last night that it would begin industrial action at midnight tomorrow. Ahead of that announcement, Mr Dempsey said that he would consider opening the postal market to competition earlier than expected in the event that industrial action went ahead.

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