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UPS and

"UPS and the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Commercial Service, a trade promotion unit of the International Trade Association that helps companies enter international markets, announced today that they are collaborating on a new initiative, which is designed to grow exports from United States-based small and medium-sized businesses." [source]

What export market and to where ?? the only place that most of the Export is to Canada and Mexico. How much in gross GDP goes out to other countries .  Ok, lets exclude Military stuff..

Health Hazard Alert - Dole Brand Cantaloupes May Contain Salmonella Bacteria !!

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Dole brand cantaloupes described below because these cantaloupes may be contaminated with Salmonella.

 

The affected cantaloupes, produce of Costa Rica, were distributed under the Dole brand name. However, individual cantaloupes do not have any markings.

These are the list of stores that was part of a broadcast from CSCB ;

Name of store 

Address  

Sold from

 

Elias Fresh Express 

250 Tecumseh Road E,

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 17, 2007

 

A&P 

1030 Adelaine Street N, London

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Dutton Foodland 

210 Main Street, Dutton

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Loblaws 

3040 Wonderland Road S, London

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Lucan Foodland

184 Main Street, Lucan

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Moore's Foodland

6 Mary Street, Clinton

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Seaforth Foodland 

95 Main Street, Seaforth

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Stonetown Foodland

84 Wellingston Street, St. Mary's

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

 

Valu Mart 

234 Oxford Street, London

February 9, 2007; up to and including February 22,

2007

This is how FEDEX started !!

I kinda found this real funny and had to reproduce :)-

Just in case you did not see this video on the news here it is again.

UPS vs Airbus

"United Parcel Service Inc., the world's largest package-delivery company, said Friday it renegotiated a contract with Airbus to delay and possibly cancel an order for 10 freighter versions of the European plane maker's mammoth new jet, the last remaining order for the cargo carrier on the books at Airbus." [source ]

This could very well mean that UPS will now have issues with the thier long drawn far east Asia market space. After all, they hae all that warehouse space and stuff like that, but no vehicles to actually move the products out from China /Korea and into thier EU and NA customers. More of the stat's on my research and tracking efforts is here

DHL not serving Canada well ?

Andy brings some me an interesting tidbit of info !!

He cribs "If you type in "DHL toronto pickup" in Google.ca (Toronto IP), you would be able to see even Google can't find anything from DHL canada. Nothing from DHL is in sight, not even any Adwords ads."

Thats pretty pathetic epxerince for the conusmer /  customer

Supply Chain Companies are not wising up to the wisdom of crowds and Customer Experience Strategies.

oh .. during recently conversation of a leading company-- I dropped the question.. "whats your customer experience strategy".. and the answer was "oh we have a call center" -dah  !!

Round Up on the vertical !!

Aplogies to my readers for not posting more freqently. So this post is just a quick brief with a lot of pointers.

FEDEX

• Will increase average shipping rates by 3.5 percent at the beginning of the year.
• FEDEX to buy Prakash Air Freight for $30 million
• Fedex Lost Package
• FedEx Ground will now accept legal wine shipments to consumers within Vermont.

UPS

• Probs with UPS - "UPS Ground has screwed up in my case "
• Open Question: Does UPS ship to APO addresses? - Yes to the best of my knowledge !!
• UPS  plans to build on their ADS-B  foundation in 2007
• Has anyone done anything with UPS XML API?

DHL

• Bahrain Trade Unions sorting out their DHL woes
• Jozzua gets his first ADsense Check via DHL  !!
• DHL is Horrible
• Police intercept high-grade heroin worth R1m sent by courier [DHL courier company]
• Plaintiff filed a class action against Airborne Express (now DHL)

Supply Chain

• China may spin off postal system
• Managing the Financial Supply Chain - Part 3
• Project to mesh with supply chain
• Streamlining the Modern Supply Chain

Elephant Patrol ?

Interesting small little tidbit of fun that I missed. Thanks Susan !!

"To my surprise, the band played on, the elephants splashed away, and nobody showed up,” Bhakta said of the stunt. “I’m astounded. [..]   The elephant never made landfall into Mexico, but I tell you something, he could have made 15 laps back and forth, but no one showed up,” said Raj Peter Bhakta, a former star on the NBC show “The Apprentice,” who also is a Republican candidate for the 13th District U.S. House of Representatives seat in Eastern Pennsylvania"

The running Candidate is in favor of “sensible immigration reform” and supports a border fence, local law enforcement assistance with immigration laws and the use of the National Guard troops to help the U.S. Border Patrol.

If I can get an elephant led by a mariachi band into this country, I think Osama bin Laden could get across with all the weapons of mass destruction he could get into this country,” Bhakta said.

Fedex and UPS forward looking predications

Analyst William J. Greene of Morgan Stanley started coverage of Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx with an "Overweight" rating and target price of $135. [..]   Greene assigned earnings estimates for the fiscal year ending in May 2007 of $6.80 per share. He expects $7.75 per share in 2008 and $9.24 per share in 2009

Greene started Atlanta-based UPS with an "Equal-weight" rating and did not set a price target.

Yes, why are the predicates on rating not been assign or disclosed for UPS ? Maybe it has to do with their Q3 Earnings conference call coming up on 19th of Oct.

Note to Self :  must track what Greens predicates and roll up this analysts views in 2007 !!

DHL moving into Heavy Airlines Cargo !!

I wrote here once  "DHL( OTC + RFD + DP World Terminal) = Marco Polo of the new age !!"

"The move is part of a strategic partnership between DHL and Polar Air Cargo which will allow DH to increase the capacity of its trans-Pacific air routes" - Forbes

DHL have moving freight into the North America on the old Airborne Grid. Now, they moving the same onto the EU grid by using this strategic partnership. Thus the leverage of weight for the Transatlantic may pay off.

DHL does have some  interesting manevours in the making. As a sidebar, they have just opened a new facilicty too.

"DHL Global Forwarding has inaugurated a new facility at the Waigaoqiao Bonded Logistics Zone (WBLZ ) in Shanghai. The new warehouse is part of DHL’s total $315 million investment in China in the past few years and aims to improve the company’s market position in China.

Global 500 listing

United Parcel Service (Charts) ranks no. 129 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $42.6 billion in revenues, up 16.4% from the previous year. The Atlanta, Georgia-based company was ranked no. 128 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $3.9 billion, up 16.1% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.

FedEx (Charts), ranked no. 197 on the Global 500 with $29.4 billion in revenues; and La Poste, ranked no. 252 on the Global 500 with $24 billion in revenues.

Via : CNNMoney  Full list can be found here

Both these companies are preparing for the Peak Season to start for this year.