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With the absolute need to have 100% focus on the UPS Aviation component and seeing that through to an accelerated execution, I have asked Dave Vernon to lead this through to implementation. ~ Ken Allen (bold added for emphasis by me)
<H2>Ohio: DHL committed to UPS
Lt. Gov. Fisher says it's unlikely DHL will reconsider deal that will cost thousands of jobs at Wilmington hub.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Thursday, June 05, 2008
</H2>DHL's senior management is committed to following through on its plan to hire United Parcel Service to fly DHL packages domestically even though it will cost thousands of jobs at its Wilmington air freight hub, Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher said Wednesday, June 4.
"It's fair to say that they were pessimistic about the chances of being able to reconsider their decision," Fisher said by telephone after he and Gov. Ted Strickland met Wednesday with DHL executives in Columbus. "We have a huge challenge on our hands to overcome the momentum of DHL's decision to pursue an agreement with UPS."
The state will do everything it can to save the jobs, including investigating whether a DHL-UPS deal — to be finalized within three months — would violate U.S. antitrust law by reducing competition in the express package delivery market, Fisher said.
Fisher said DHL appears determined to conclude a contract with UPS, but also indicated a willingness to work with the state and Wilmington officials to find possible alternative uses for DHL's North American air freight sorting hub that could support other jobs there. How soon that would happen, or what the alternative use would be, no one has been able to say.
DHL will work with Ohio and local authorities, company spokesman Jonathan Baker said.
John Mullen, DHL's global chief executive, and Wolfgang Pordzik, its top U.S. official for governmental relations, met with Strickland and Fisher a day after meeting with Senate and House members in Washington, during what the company described as "courtesy visits."
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, said he met with Mullen and tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to reverse DHL's decision. It is unfair to Wilmington which has supported DHL, Turner said.
"The usual expectation when a company has losses is that they fire someone in the company, and not fire the town," Turner said.
DHL, which lost $900 million on its U.S. delivery operations last year, surprised state and Wilmington officials last week by announcing it would hire UPS and end the U.S. delivery work it gives to two carriers at Wilmington, ASTAR Air Cargo and ABX Air. ABX also operates the hub for DHL, along with other sorting facilities nationwide.
I didn't think we were supposed to sort your packages? I'm at brown and just flew with a senior captain who heard that we would only transport DHL packages that were already sorted? Is that info wrong?... Oh, by the way. I call BS on your "same as what the USPS does" talk. The USPS does not allow FedEx to sort their packages, only fly them...
I didn't think we were supposed to sort your packages? I'm at brown and just flew with a senior captain who heard that we would only transport DHL packages that were already sorted? Is that info wrong?
I really feel sorry for you guys and hope that DHL will find some replacement routes and also for preferential interviews here at Brown IF we start hiring because of the deal - which personally I don't think we will. They'll just bring some old DC8s back from the graveyard and many over 60 guys who were actually thinking about retiring will decide to stay... You know, so the ones who have plenty get more plenty...
Btw, until just a few weeks ago the word on the street was the Fedex would do all that flying. I read it in several papers and my friends at purple had heard similar stories... I'd like to know what went wrong in their negotiations? UPS likes to do things their own way and doesn't like to sell their services at a bargain price - we were all really surprised here when we heard about it...
Do you mean we will be flying DHL stuff overseas or they will be flying ours? I doubt we will be flying DHL stuff outside North America as DHL is huge overseas and hardly need our "help." Of course, you never know in this business...I think DHL will be taking UPS international...
Do you mean we will be flying DHL stuff overseas or they will be flying ours? I doubt we will be flying DHL stuff outside North America as DHL is huge overseas and hardly need our "help." Of course, you never know in this business...