Recently awarded / extended contracts

DHL Supply Chain has been awarded a contract to carry out order fulfilment of e-commerce services for Debenhams Direct. With Internet site traffic of nearly three million customers a month, DHL will manage a substantial proportion of essential processes from receipt of order to picking, packing and, where necessary, returns processing.

The Debenhams operation is set to grow in key phases over the next few years, with volumes estimated at two million parcels this year, growing to four million over the next three years.

In addition, DHL has signed a three-year extension to its current contract to run to 2015 with Debenhams.

The business will continue its existing agreement to develop and provide all Debenhams‘ warehouse and distribution services to stores across the UK and Ireland.

DHL will also operate the new Sherburn In Elmet facility near Leeds, which began operations last month.

TomTom has renewed its agreement with Panalpina to ship several of its GPS products by airfreight from China to the US.

Following the January 2011 introduction of the new Nike+ SportWatch GPS product (powered by TomTom), Panalpina offered to serve TomTom with its exclusive new mid-week and weekend 747 own-controlled freighter service ‘Dragon Wings‘ from Hong Kong.

Over the next four months, the SportWatches will be shipped to Dallas Fort Worth for sale online and in stores across the US.

OAG Cargo is seeking new business opportunities in Eastern Europe with the appointment of Daedalus Sales & Marketing Consultants as its general sales agent in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania.

OAG Cargo provides routing and shipment planning, dangerous goods regulations, real-time airfreight rates, aviation schedule data, operational announcements and tracking as well as analysis solutions and multi-media cargo schedule products.

More than 30,000 freight forwarders are registered users of OAG products, and its Air Freight Rates Application (AFRA) provides a database of nearly five million tariffs from 920 airlines.

Although its area of expertise is Eastern Europe, Daedalus also has four years‘ experience covering other parts of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Camair, the new national airline of the Republic of Cameroon, has signed a worldwide cargo GSA contract with ECS Group.

EFIS Air, the Paris-based subsidiary of ECS, will manage the Camair contract.

Camair launched operations at the end of March with a Boeing 767-300 passenger and cargo service linking Douala, Yaounde and Paris. The aircraft offers up to fifteen tonnes of cargo capacity and operates five days a week on the route. This will increase to six flights a week in June.

ECS plans to open a new office in Douala to support the development of Camair’s cargo product.