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New man for UPS in Italy

UPS has appointed Francisco (Paco) Conejo as country manager for Italy, taking over from Britta Weber. He will oversee UPS’s operations, business development, and strategy in the country whose exports accounts for more than 30% of the GDP, more than half of which is generated by small and medium-sized firms, according to the Italian Trade Agency. [+]

Rhenus raises the roof

Rhenus Warehousing Solutions UK held a roof-raising ceremony at its new development at Baytree, Nuneaton. The Rhenus Campus will have two warehouses, totalling one million square feet. The second, larger warehouse measures 771,000 square feet. The first warehouse, measuring 210,000 square feet, had its roof ... [+]

Italian and German posties get it together

Poste Italiane has signed a strategic partnership with Deutsche Post DHL Group (DHL) for the Italian and international parcel markets. Under the deal, DHL eCommerce Solutions will manage the road delivery of Poste Italiane parcels to European destinations. Poste Italiane will deliver parcels from DHL eCommerce ... [+]

UK could follow German lead with green labels for parcels

The UK could follow Germany’s lead in making CO2 labels on parcels compulsory, says ParcelHero.The broker’s head of consumer research, David Jinks, says that Germany is considering legislation to introduce CO2 emissions information as part of a reform package for the industry, backed by Deutsche ... [+]

Danx sets up Poland joint venture

Time-critical logistics specialist DANX (part of the DANX Carousel Group) has signed a 50-50 joint-venture with Poland’s, ILS. It aims to create a distribution network in the country in response to growing demand in-night logistics solutions in Eastern Europe. Both ILS and DANX have extensive experience ... [+]

DHL is leading firm for refugee hires

Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL Group) has been ranked second among the 50 best-performing global companies for hiring refugees by data provider Refugee Integration Insights (RII). The global logistics giant was also ranked number for refugee integration. At Post & Parcel Germany, 435 Ukrainians have been ... [+]

Parcels-airline group to deliver 1,000 tonnes of Turkey aid

A consortium consisting of Lufthansa-Turkish Airlines joint venture SunExpress, Lufthansa Cargo, DPD, FIEGE, time:matters and Customs Broker GmbH, have transported more than 3,000 parcels to the earthquake zone in Turkey. Parcels were dropped off by private donors at 7,700 DPD parcel shops and then sorted and ... [+]

DPD buys Absolutely

DPD UK, part of the pan-European DPDgroup parcel delivery network, has completed the acquisition of south-east England based final mile courier company Absolutely. It operates a fleet of 200 couriers servicing more than 2,500 clients and also offere temperature controlled courier services. This move follows ... [+]

FedEx commits over $1m to earthquake relief

FedEx Corp says it has committed more than $1m worth of in-kind shipping so far to the earthquake relief effort in southern Turkey and Syria. To date, it has chartered five freighter aircraft between February 17 to 21 delivering approximately 230 tonnes of relief supplies ... [+]

UPS to deliver strong medicine

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has extended its collaboration with UPS Healthcare to deliver its DNA/RNA sequencing products and consumables across the Asia Pacific region. Oxford Nanopore’s flow cells will be stored in UPS Healthcare’s temperature-controlled distribution facility in Singapore and then be delivered within 24-48- hours ... [+]

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