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Saudi Postal approves 300 percent increase in some of its services fees

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

The Saudi Postal Service Organization has approved a 300 percent increase in some of its services’ fees, Al-Youm newspaper reported. The mailbox charges increased to SR300 per year for individuals and SR1,000 for private institutions. In the past, customers used to rent a mailbox for SR300 for three years. These new charges will be effective on the first day of the month of Rajab (Aug.7). The new charges will help in reducing the SR200 million deficits of the SPSO and to increase its income.

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TNT results lead to French transportation unit up for sale

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

Global mail, express and logistics provider TNT has released its second quarter results. The Mail division saw revenues grow. TNT’s Express division saw the best results overall. However the company’s logistics division experienced mixed fortunes. TNT continued to experience problems in the transportation unit of its French operation. It has now confirmed this course of action by officially placing the transportation unit (60percent of its French logistics business) up for sale.

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DHL Executives debate next phase of US market strategy

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

With their expansion into the U.S. market on track and nearly complete, DHL executives face a fresh debate: How much profit can they realistically expect in the U.S. as they compete with larger, more-recognizable rivals?

That’s the next phase of attack of the U.S. market, said DHL Chief Executive John Mullen in an interview Friday with Dow Jones.

“We will enter 2006 with a fully integrated business. That’s a huge plus, because you’re not looking inward anymore,” Mullen said. But he added: “Integration doesn’t yet bring profitability.”

The company, which began its challenge to entrenched U.S. delivery companies United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corp. (FDX) in 2003 by buying Airborne Inc., is on track to break even in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of next year. But while DHL is a large and well-known express delivery company around the globe, it’s smaller in the U.S. than its main rivals.

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DHL raises ante on RFID

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

The race to deploy radio-frequency identification technology moved into a new stage. A major carrier has jumped into the mix, which may prompt shippers to take a fresh look at the technology. In June, DHL said it will place RFID tags on all of the more than 1 billion packages it ships annually by 2015, becoming the first major package carrier to commit to a complete RFID rollout by a certain date. “They’ve made it very clear they’re going to spend whatever it takes for RFID,” said Bob Berg, RFID manager at DHL Americas. The development generated predictions that DHL’s plan will advance the technology’s maturation and spur shippers to give it a closer look. “By 2015, RFID will already have established itself as the primary track-and-trace technology,” said Jack Grasso, senior director of corporate communications at GS1 U.S., the automated identification standards development and implementation body formerly known as the Uniform Code Council.

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DHL expands US SCS

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

DHL on Monday said it has expanded its DHL Solutions unit in the American marketplace. The move combines the logistics activities of three former Americas business units — Express Logistics, Airborne Logistics Services, and Solutions — into the global DHL Solutions business unit. DHL Solutions offers customized end-to-end supply chain services ranging from consulting and supply chain design to warehousing, distribution logistics and order management. The unit is located at DHL’s U.S. headquarters in Plantation, Fla. It operates in 27 countries across the Western Hemisphere, with main distribution centers in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and more than 3,500 employees. Operations include 28 logistics centers and nearly 200 strategic parts centers with a total storage capacity of approximately 8 million square feet. DHL’s global reach includes 33 million square feet of global warehouse space in more than 300 logistics centers in Europe, the Middle East/Africa, Americas, and Asia.

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