European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 a the stars and stripes sunday August 12,1990business news air express carriers to snare world sales by John Burgess the Washington Post before anyone knew it they had blossomed into world class airlines operating hundreds of jets on routes that straddle the United states and the Globe. But what a this they lid it without offering in flight movies or complimentary cocktails. And they did it with schedules that most often have their planes flying in the dead of night. Federal express corp., United parcel service and Del worldwide express carry things not people and the companies get them there overnight. Each is struggling to set the Pace in the fast growing air express business which sprang out of nowhere in the 1980s and today crisscrossed the world. United parcel service and Federal express in particular have dominated the . Domestic Market and Are now snapping up companies in Asia and Europe m an All out Effort to build overseas networks. Meanwhile Del which traditionally has been no. 1 overseas is bolstering its defences abroad through a new Alliance with Lufthansa and Japan air lines. Check the holds of these three companies planes As they Fly through darkened skies in the United states and abroad and you might find parts for a broken Down Bow or factory robot artists sketches for an upcoming and Campaign Legal briefs computer components shipping documents or perfume samples. The occasional caged animal flies too a Rhinoceros bound for a new zoo perhaps. About All the various cargoes have in common is that their owners want them to a be there the next Day. After Landing at floodlit Hub airports the air freight jets disgorge their Booty and touch off a grand spectacle of organized chaos. While customers sleep thousands of part time workers Many of them College students Are Rushing to sort mountains of packages and envelopes. A from 12 30 to 2 15 . Its hectic real hectic a said sorter Cleveland Brown As he paused amid the Din and conveyor belts of fed exp a main Hub at the Memphis tenn., Airport. A stuff is coming constantly. We just keep  not so Long ago americans with something Small to Send usually used the local Post office or surface delivery companies with truck fleets to get packages on their Way. But delivery sometimes lagged and Many customers wanted something More reliable. In 1973, Memphis based Fedex was launched and it changed american businesses Way of shipping freight. The company a Success has helped build next Day delivery services into a mass Industry. Suddenly anything less than overnight seemed hopelessly slow. With Fedex growing by leaps and Bounds a decade and a half ago even  a which once made Only surface deliveries a was forced to offer overnight service As were the . Postal service and a Bevy of other companies. Overnight mail drove these businesses at first. But in the late 1980s, the proliferation of fax machines took a bite out of that business. Yet express companies have found that there Are still plenty of things fax machines can to handle a from the 100-Page Legal Brief to that Rhino a and vigorous expansion has continued. Moody a investors service last year estimated that the overnight air business was expanding at about 20 percent a year. A More and More companies Are sending things internationally As Well As domestically a said David Guthrie first vice president for research for Morgan Keegan amp co., a Memphis Stock brokerage. A shippers want to Deal with one company for  express companies at first rented space in the bellies of passenger jets. But then in the late 1970s, deregulation made it possible for just about anyone to own an airline. In the �?T80s, Many companies jumped to assemble their own fleets is amps Jim Derheim cargo is unloaded from a Federal express dc-10 in Frankfurt West Germany last week after a flight from Anchorage Alaska. Some of which rival the size of major passenger carriers. Technology has also helped the business mushroom notably fed exp a computerized tracking system that allows it to Tell nervous customers the precise Point their packages have reached in the pipeline. Ups has installed a similar system. Fedex has also recently gone on an acquisition Binge to build itself abroad. Its International business is up 32 percent in the past year. One of its biggest acquisitions was the $895 million Purchase of Tiger International a financially troubled . Air cargo line. Until the Tiger buy foreign destinations to which Fedex flew were few indeed a London Tokyo Canada and Brussels Belgium. With Tiger new ones were suddenly added Hong Kong Taipei Taiwan Osaka Japan Singapore Frankfurt West Germany and Rio de Janeiro Brazil to name a few. Fedex got 38 jets and 6,500 new pilots and employees from the Purchase. Additionally Fedex has bought 13 other companies since the Start of 1989, primarily Small ground delivery operations in such places As Japan Australia Mexico Italy Britain and West Germany. The idea is to keep a package in the company a hands for its entire journey. Picked up by a purple and Orange Van m Atlanta it is flown across the Atlantic and dropped at a Frankfurt Doorstep by another Van bearing the same colors without missing a beat. Stars co Luck o and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores to if o o cd if us cd cd h Cut q z it if cult h if stars Complete Book of Teddy bears a $30 super aver discount the Complete Book of Teddy Beers is a stars and stripes super Saver discount for August. 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