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Courier Companies of the World

By: Timothy Gomez Click author's name for more of his/her articles

Courier companies have become a very important part of every country's economy. This is because of its use for importing and exporting important goods, delivering documents, as well as simple packages sent directly to different people world wide. Different courier services operate on all scales, from within specific towns or cities, to regional, national and global services. One example is LBC courier philippines that provides Filipinos delivery services. Although the company serves locally, there have also been other LBC branches in selected countries around the world.

Other than local courier companies, other courier companies that serves on an international scale. These courier companies are also known as some of the largest courier companies in the world. These include Aramex, DHL, FedEx, and UPS.

Aramex
Aramex is a global transportation and logistics services company providing a variety of express, logistics, freight forwarding and domestic distribution services. The company was established in 1982 and is headquartered in Amman, Jordan. Aramex also provides a number of retail services including mail-order catalog services and mail forwarding services. According to courier philippines companies, one of the Aramex' achievements was being the first international company in the region that was listed in NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) in 1997.

DHL Express
Considered as one of the many international courier philippines companies, DHL Express, or Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn, was originally founded in 1969 to deliver documents between San Francisco and Honolulu, the company expanded its service throughout the world by the late 1970s, the Philippines being one of its first countries to expand in to. The company was primarily interested in offshore and inter-continental deliveries, but the success of FedEx prompted their own inter-US expansion starting in 1983. DHL aggressively expanded to countries that could not be served by any other delivery service, including the Eastern Bloc, Vietnam and the People's Republic of China.

FedEx
Originally known as FDX Corp., is a logistics services company, based in the United States. January of 2009, FORTUNE magazine have named FedEx as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" in the US. Additionally, FORTUNE magazine recognized FedEx for its commitment to diversity and women among the "100 Best Companies to Work For." FedEx is the largest company (by number of employees) and the only transportation company on this year's list.

UPS
United Parcel Service, Inc., or commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Other than being largest package delivery company, UPS is also known to receive a "starting" rating of 39 points out of 100 totals on the environmental scorecard by the Climate Counts Group for their efforts to lessen the company's impact on the environment. UPS has also been awarded the Clean Air Excellence Award by the United States Environmental Protection Agency because of the alternative fuel program they have developed. For more information visit our website at http://www.lbcexpress.com