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...Potential buyers for Toll Global Express include private equity firms and global logistics groups such as FedEx, UPS and DHL....
...Stretched global supply chains and limited availability for freight on ships and planes had helped push up prices and grow margins, DHL said....
...In early November DHL highlighted the strength of freight forwarding which helped lift the German-headquartered company’s revenues by a quarter in the third quarter....
...Forwarding and Kuehne+Nagel....
...Manufacturers from carmakers to furniture groups use “freight forwarding” companies such as DHL to handle complex global logistics, from booking ships to arranging onward transport afterwards....
...That followed the good results from Deutsche Post, which owns DHL as well as a separate freight forwarding business, earlier this month. This optimism is not unique to Europe of course....
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...Large companies in this sector include Germany’s DHL and Kuehne + Nagel of Switzerland....
...Pier Luigi Ferrari (no relation to the sport’s car family) is deputy managing director of DHL Global Forwarding and has handled motorsport cargo for the company since 1982....
...The increase in operating profits came despite falling revenues at its express, global forwarding and supply chain businesses as a result of the strong euro....
...First challenge and strategic response In 2003, Airborne was acquired by DHL....
...The freight forwarding groups were referred to as “greenhouses” while the cartelists worked under codenames: “Velcro”, “Head Planter”, “Horticulturalist”, “Gardener” and “Catweazle”, after the bedraggled...
...Investors will want to weigh such optimism against signs of weakness in the global forwarding and freight division, which reported “significant cooling-off” in air freight and a dip in ocean freight revenues...
...In particular, he said, DHL Express was aiming to work more closely with Post’s two other freight units, DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply-Chain Management, to offer DHL customers different ways of moving...
...As an important piece of the global supply chain, companies such as DHL, United Parcel Service and FedEx are considered barometers of global economic performance....
...Amadou Diallo, chief executive of DHL Global Forwarding for South Asia Pacific, estimates that about 15 per cent of the value of intra-Asean trade is currently being lost....
...The group said it was on course for earnings from its DHL businesses, including freight forwarding, to more or less equal those from its historically more important mail business for the first time....
...Deutsche Post is not closing its other US businesses, including DHL’s global forwarding and supply chain businesses, which employ 25,000....
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...The global credit crunch has not affected the Greek banks’ strategy of continued expansion in south-east Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, but it could trigger at least one large merger in the domestic...
...Mr Little says he is “excited” by the challenge of creating “a leading, global-scale logistics business”....
...Likewise, opting out of European and Asian domestic markets leaves holes in its global network that DHL and UPS could exploit....
...The group is the world’s largest stand-alone provider of supply chain management and freight forwarding services....
...“That represents more than 55 per cent of global capacity,” says Mr Bloom....
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