alliances
Global engineering and technology company Metso has implemented
Management Dynamics’ Restricted Party Screening (RPS) program in its
Automation division. RPS enables Metso to automatically check against 175
restricted-party screening lists from around the world. … Handy Hardware,
a cooperative of independent hardware supply retailers, has selected Averitt
Express to provide dedicated contract carriage service. … Del Monte Foods
has expanded its contract with GT Nexus, which provides the trade and
logistics platform used by Del Monte, to include inventory visibility, supplier
collaboration, ISF (Importer Security Filing) compliance, and trade document
automation capabilities. … Evergreen Line, Wan Hai Line, and Interasia
Lines have launched a weekly Taiwan-Madras (India) trunk service called
TMT Service. … Meritor Inc. and Pressure Systems International (PSI) have
renewed their strategic alliance, under which PSI distributes the Meritor Tire
Inflation System in North America. … Sky-Trax Inc. has named AiDC
Solutions as a Premier Partner Program member and value-added reseller.
Sky-Trax provides optical real-time location solutions for tracking vehicles
and assets inside warehouses. AiDC Solutions provides auto ID technologies
and supply chain solutions across Europe. … Conqueror Freight Network has
added Aries Global Logistics Inc. to its network of “virtual branches” in 100
cities in 58 countries.
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STORAGE
FedEx: We’re faster than UPS on some ground lanes
Who delivers faster—FedEx or UPS?
According to FedEx, it does—on some
lanes, anyway. FedEx Corp. CFO Alan B.
Graf Jr. told a gathering of investors
and analysts in late March that on a net
basis, the company’s ground parcel unit,
FedEx Ground, delivers packages faster
than rival UPS Inc. over 23 percent of
the U.S. traffic lanes served by both
companies.
Jess Bunn, a FedEx spokesman, confirmed Graf’s statement. UPS
spokesman Norman Black declined to
comment.
Jerry Hempstead, a former Airborne
Express and DHL Express sales executive
who now runs his own parcel consultancy, says FedEx’s claim is true.
Hempstead says his research indicates
that FedEx will often be “one or more
days” faster than UPS in meeting their
respective service commitments.
“I found this hard to believe when a
customer of mine told me FedEx was
faster on the ground,” he says. “So I did
a study of their shipments and, sure
enough, FedEx was faster.”
The “net” figure cited by Graf is cal-
culated by taking the number of lanes
where FedEx has shorter delivery times
and then subtracting the number of
lanes where UPS provides faster deliver-
ies. A purely hypothetical example: If
FedEx is faster on 100 lanes and UPS is
faster on 60 lanes, then FedEx’s net will
be 40 lanes.
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