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The Eco Responsible Packaging program is offered by UPS as part of their "Green" policy. It basically means that customers who are enlisted in their program and have undergone the UPS sustainable packaging assessment, are able to place the Eco Responsible logo on their shipping packages, thereby proclaiming to the world and sundry that they too are part of the "sustainable packaging"

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It was only a matter of time that UPS as well as the other large integrators publicized their mobile applications in an effort to make it easier for decision makers and support staff to use their systems. "The App is the latest in a suite of mobile applications UPS has developed for shipping decision-makers such as small business owners and on-the-go professionals like salespeople and repair

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The new distribution centre for UPS was built at Calgary Airport and is part of the YYC Logistics Park infrastructure just recently announced. The official opening was on Feb 22, 2010 and the 150,000-square-foot distribution facility will house 157 trucks for ground transportation as well as serve as a staging ground for aircraft. Read more.....

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Excerpt from the UPS website on their preparations for London 2012."Tonight, the world celebrates the start of the Vancouver Olympic Games. For the UPS team assisting with the London Olympics, it is a milestone on the journey to the 2012 Summer Games. Organizing an Olympic Games is the single biggest peacetime logistical event in the world, followed just two weeks later by the second biggest

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It appears that Fedex Trade networks is gearing up to participate in the European and UK Freight forwarding industry. Although part of the Fedex Group, this division is not at all involved in the express side and handles traditional consultative freight forwarding for air, sea and road shipments requiring customized logistics solutions.Read more.....

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DHL won the German Sustainability Award in November 2009 in recognition of the company's Go Green policy assuming economic, ecologic and social responsibility. The focus is to improve the companies CO2 efficiency by 30 percent by 2020, reducing the CO2 emissions for every letter and parcel sent, every tonne of cargo transported, and for every square meter of warehouse space used.In

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Despite a fourth-quarter net income of $757 million reported last week, UPS is still considering furloughing 300 pilots in May. They are still however negotiating with the Independent Pilot Association on ways to avoid this, such as early retirement, and leaves of absence yet this has been in the works for the past year. For UPS to come out in the free press and make this statement even, it

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Fedex has launched a new service called International Direct distribution, which aims to provide shippers with an all in one service of consolidation of their multi destination packages at origin into one shipment. This saves costs for several reasons. There is only one customs clearance at destination and there is only one shipment, therefore eliminating multiple minimum charges for each

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Link to CBS News Video Fedex will uplift $2million worth of medical aid to Haiti this coming Friday. The air lift as well as the logistics support is their donation to this effort.Read moreUPS is quick on the uptake and has announced they are donating $1 million to Haiti relief . Half of it will be "in kind " services i.e. their services and the other half in cash that will be spread to the

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The latest news this week on Couriers is the cut of 1800 back office jobs in the USA. They report the reduction of their domestic small package service and are reducing regions as well as down sizing this particular business module. It seems rather ironic however since the USA domestic small package service was their original business module that propelled them onto the national and

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DHL, UPS, Fedex and Purolator have now published their 2010 rate guide and standard tariff. Yes...all this information is available on their websites but somehow, when focused on obtaining a rate, one can easily forget to check the handling, customs clearance and various additional fees, as well as the fuel surcharges which are in addition to the door to door rate. A written or printed document

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In the latter part of November, 2009, UPS announced their new rate schedule for 2010 and with it an increase of 4.9% on ground rates. As is the usual relationship between Fedex and UPS, Fedex followed suit on Dec 3, also announcing a 4.9% increase on ground and home deliveries. This is a whopping increase since a huge portion of these companies' earnings are from the domestic ground market in

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Second Review Business Analysts

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In order to save time and administration, DHL Express India and Standard Chartered Bank has launched a Door Step Trade service in those regions that have a concentrated amount of exporters utilizing finance services. No longer will documents have to be couriered to the bank's Foreign office, the documents just have to be scanned by the DHL driver and they will be transmitted directly to the

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With DHL, UPS and TNT dominating courier and distribution in the Asia Pacific rim, Fedex has finally made their move to improve their infrastructure and offer upgraded business services to European locations. Lagging behind the other three in brand name recognition by the majority of users in this part of the world, Fedex hopes to boost their presence and hopefully trespass on the DHL/UPS/TNT

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In 1999, UPS went public and the public as well as private sectors bought in. Now with after 40 acquisitions and large investments in China as well as the 3PL, they have, closed the perceived gaping holes in their global profile. Focusing on Supply Chain and Distribution networks in the last ten years, as well as business services such as the UPS Store, they have come a long way from being

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DHL has not really had a nice time in North America, not for their courier division and not even with their acquisitions of Airborne, Danzas, and Exel. Dr. Appel addresses the mistakes made by the Group in not retaining local management of these companies. Faced with the strong presence of UPS and Fedex, their brand, and their central customer service operations, DHL was unable to establish

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Any company that calls themselves best as their company has to have a lot of confidence and hutzpah. At the very least I can do is post their link here.

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This is an excerpt from Climate Biz, a website that reports on companies and issues relating to the green solutions. "Last week, as soon as I sat down with UPSers Scott Wicker, who runs the plant engineering group and oversees sustainability, and Lynnette McIntire, director of global reputation management, to talk about UPS's new sustainability report, they made a point of telling me that UPS is

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Latin American Logistics came up with a fairly good article on the fight for supremacy by the world's couriers."All four companies have been vying for global domination of the Logistics Market, but over the last 10 years this struggle has intensified with a systematic stream of acquisitions. Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), DHL’s parent company, has bought more than 50 companies, mostly in Europe.

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The initial flourishSeveral lessons can be learned from the strategic policies implemented by couriers by their collective response to the changing face of business practices, “just in time” deliveries, and rapidly changing IT technology.Having gained market exposure and enormous growth in the small package and document transfer industry by providing very fast transit times and super competitive

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