Friday September 23, 2016

23-09-16

TOP NEWS

DHL Express hikes prices worldwide from January 2017

DHL Express CEO Ken Allen

DHL Express today announced price increases ranging from 3.9% to 6.9% from January 1, 2017 for many markets around the world to cope with rising costs and to finance investments. read more

LATEST NEWS

UPS and CyPhy Works test drone delivery

UPS tests drone deliveries to remote locations

23-09-16

UPS today announced it has begun testing the use of drones to make commercial deliveries of packages to remote or difficult-to-access locations, working together with drone-maker CyPhy Works. read more

Nox Nachtexpress delivers to mobile parcel box PaketButler

23-09-16

Nox Nachtexpress, the German B2B overnight delivery specialist (formerly ‘TNT Innight’), is testing the ‘PaketButler’, a mobile parcel box launched by Deutsche Telekom, DHL Parcel Germany, online retailer Zalando and Hamburg-based service company ‘feldsechs’. read more

UPS and FedEx launch new express services at FamilyMart and 7-ELEVEN outlets across Taiwan

23-09-16

UPS and FedEx have extended their respective partnerships with FamilyMart and 7-ELEVEN, the two most popular convenience store chains in Taiwan, to offer new express services at their retail outlets across the country. read more

FedEx CFO Alan Graf

FedEx “supremely confident” in value of TNT Express acquisition

22-09-16

FedEx remains “supremely confident” in the value of its TNT Express acquisition and is aiming to exit the end of the four-year integration with annual synergies of $750 million, Executive Vice President and CFO, Alan Graf, told a conference call with analysts earlier this week. read more

Pošta Slovenije is introducing parcel terminals

DHL extends European parcel network to Hungary and Slovenia with postal partnerships

22-09-16

DHL has signed up two postal operators to extend its European B2C parcels network to Hungary and Slovenia, taking its network to 18 markets through a mix of subsidiaries and partners. read more

UPS invests in Mexico and California

22-09-16

UPS has unveiled diverse investments in Mexico along with plans for a new facility in California. read more

Trans-o-flex CEO Frank Iden

Trans-o-flex to invest €56m on switch to active temperature-controlled transportation

22-09-16

Germany’s trans-o-flex has announced plans to switch completely to active temperature-controlled transportation and to implement a new GDP+ digitalisation project, with investments in IT, vehicles, transhipment centres and staff training to exceed €56 million. read more

Frederick W. Smith

FedEx posts strong Q1 results, TNT integration “going smoothly”

21-09-16

FedEx Corp. has announced growth in its first-quarter operating results compared to last year due largely to higher base yields at FedEx Express and FedEx Ground, volume growth at FedEx Ground and ongoing cost efficiencies at FedEx Express. read more

Atlas Air

Atlas/Polar Air ground staff accuse US carrier of DHL-influenced safety breaches

21-09-16

Ground staff at Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo have written to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) accusing their employer's major customer, DHL, of being responsible for breaches in safety at the US cargo carriers. read more

ParcelLock eBoxx by Burg-Wächter

DPD, GLS and Hermes officially launch provider-neutral ParcelLock delivery system

21-09-16

DPD, GLS and Hermes have officially launched ParcelLock, Germany’s first “neutral” system for delivering B2C parcels to consumer homes when the recipient is absent, which can now be purchased by manufacturers of parcel lockers. read more

DPDGroup

DPD opens two new depots in Slovakia

21-09-16

DPD has expanded its network in Slovakia with two new depots in Levice, western Slovakia, and Dunajská Streda in the south of the country, after being honoured with the Slovak Business Superbrands Award 2016 earlier this year. read more

R.S. Subramanian

Alibaba teams with DHL India as Blue Dart links with India Post

20-09-16

Alibaba.com, the Alibaba Group's B2B platform for cross-border wholesale trade, is teaming up with DHL and Indian partners to boost trade, while Blue Dart has launched a cooperation deal with India Post. read more

DHL Express

DHL Express opens second Jakarta gateway to cope with Indonesia volume growth

20-09-16

DHL Express today opened a second gateway at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to increase capacity in response to continually rising volumes in and out of Indonesia. read more

FedEx

FedEx to hike rates for express, ground and freight shipments from January 2017

20-09-16

FedEx has unveiled plans to increase express, ground and freight rates in the USA next January, including a lower rise than UPS for express shipments, and will also speed up fuel surcharge changes from a monthly to a weekly basis. read more

Posti

Finland’s Posti wants to cut deliveries to three per week

20-09-16

Finnish postal operator Posti is demanding that changes to a new postal law should financially “secure universal services in all parts of the country” by reducing the USO from five to three deliveries a week. read more

Stock quotes

(23-09-16)

Bpost		23.93€	+0.04%
DP-DHL		28.14€	+0.52%
FedEx		174.72$	+0.61%
Post.at		33.33€	+1.23%
PostNL		4.01€	-0.60%
Royal Mail		520.50p	+0.00%
UPS		109.33$	-0.31%

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UPS Foundation supports Global Forestry Initiative

02-09-16

FedEx Express again wins ‘Aon’s Best Employer Award’ in Asia Pacific

02-09-16

Khoo Seng Thiam, MD FedEx Express Singapore (middle) and Amy Leung, MD Human Resources Services, South Pacific FedEx Express (right) receive the award

UPS celebrates 40 years in Europe

02-09-16

The UPS European air hub at Cologne

Features

Delivery operators to compete on recipient choice?

07-07-16

Post-Expo drew more than 3,000 visitors

Delivery choice and control for parcel recipients could be the next big area of competition between Posts, parcel operators and start-up delivery firms, according to experts. read more

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News in brief

19-09-16

Naked Wines toasts InPost locker deliveries

19-09-16

DHL, United Airlines team up for Puerto Rico pharma shipments

19-09-16

NZ Post reduces rural deliveries

16-09-16

CVC tipped to buy Korean parcels firm Logen

16-09-16

FedEx Freight invests in CNG fueling

16-09-16

CJ Korea Express buys into Malaysian logistics firm

16-09-16

UPS named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

16-09-16

DHL prepares Indonesian airports for disaster

02-09-16

DHL celebrates one million ‘cool’ SmartSensor shipments

02-09-16

UPS tests bicycle deliveries in Belgium

02-09-16

DHL rolls out ‘smart glasses’ worldwide

02-09-16

Swiss Post U-turn on counter changes

02-09-16

DHL and New Wave Group sign exclusive ocean freight agreement

02-09-16

Lithuania Post domestic volumes rise

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Top Articles August 2016

01-08-16

UPS eyes significant reduction in transit times on intra-Europe ground network

04-08-16

Investment takes profit out of DP DHL international parcels/e-commerce business

03-08-16

Deutsche Post DHL records best-ever quarter

08-08-16

TNT Innight rebrands to “NOX Nachtexpress”

19-08-16

UPU could cancel Istanbul Congress over security concerns

25-08-16

UPS starts work on $300m Louisville ground package hub expansion

18-08-16

Japan Post quarterly profits drop as Toll faces ‘challenging conditions’

22-08-16

Amazon fills up German parcel locker network at Shell petrol stations

08-08-16

Amazon unveils first-ever branded freighter aircraft

18-08-16

LetMeShip expands to Austria

Latest Comments

18-04-16 17:33:29

Richard Stoughton on European Commission proposes €5.1m funding to help ex-MoryGlobal workers

10-08-16 03:38:47

Austin Zhang on TNT Innight rebrands to “NOX Nachtexpress”

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