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DHL offers services to Nigerian exporters

Posted by | Nov 25, 2006 | |

DHL, is reiterating its service offerings to all exporters of goods in Nigeria. The company has a global coverage of over 220 countries and territories in one coordinated network.

DHL Express Nigeria’s Country Commercial Manager, Grant Mowat speaking on the campaign stated that, “the biggest barrier to exports is paperwork. That is why DHL organizes clearance in the air. On landing shipments can be fast tracked through customs. Its just one more way that we give a faster hassle free export service from door to door to our customers with the simplicity of one partner, one invoice and one currency.

DHL is targeting small and medium sized businesses exporting time sensitive shipments on an occasional or regular basis and whose primary need is reliability and range of service. DHL already does business on a regular basis with several large organizations where the focus is on improved control, visibility and cost management.

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Romanian Courier Cargus eyes boost in 2007 Profit, Turnover

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

Romanian courier services provider Cargus expects a rise in its gross profit and turnover next year on the back of rising clients portfolio, a senior official told SeeNews.
“For 2007 we project a turnover of more than 25 million euro (USD32 million) and a profit of more than three million euro. The growth will be supported by the rise in the number of the clients and the widening of the services we offer,” Cargus vice-president Carmina Dumitrescu told SeeNews in a recent interview.
Cargus projects a gross profit of 2.1 million euro for the current year on an estimated turnover of 20 million euro, Dumitrescu said. The company reported a 15.3 million euro in turnover for 2005, and a gross profit of 2.46 million euro.
“Currently, Cargus has a 35% market share in Romania and up to 10% from the [country’s] international courier market,” Dumitrescu added.

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Postcomm today began a 30 day consultation on the proposed issue of a new long term licence to Mercury International Limited.

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

Postcomm today began a 30 day consultation on the proposed issue of a new long term licence to Mercury International Limited.

Under the new licensing framework that took effect from 1 January 2006, Mercury International Limited’s licence would:

* allow it to provide all types of postal service;
* be issued for a rolling ten year period;
* require the company to comply with codes of practice on mail integrity (safety and security of the mail) and common operational procedures (designed to ensure the multi-operator market owrks well in practice).

The consultation document and draft licence are available on the Mercury International Limited consultation page of Postcomm’s website at www.psc.gov.uk. Printed copies are available from Postcomm at Hercules House, 6 Hercules Road, London, SE1 7DB. The closing date for responses is 24 December 2006.

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PPA highlights critical importance of mail channel

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

PPA has highlighted the continued importance of the mail channel to publishers’ business models and future viability, as part of its response to the postal regulator’s Strategy Review. The findings of the review will help Postcomm frame its regulatory strategy in the lead up to 2010 and beyond.

In its response, PPA said that under a status quo scenario, continued overall growth in mail volumes was projected from the publishing sector. However, given the price sensitivity of magazine traffic it stressed that this growth was dependent on Postcomm ensuring that any changes, especially changes in pricing structures, were manageable for users both in terms of scale and timeframes.

PPA said it was supportive of Postcomm’s vision for achieving effective competition, of which the key elements will be customer choice, product development and innovation, and reducing the barriers to entry.

In its response PPA also took the opportunity to highlight publishers’ serious concerns about Royal Mail’s plans to introduce zonal pricing, indicating that it was likely to have a significant impact on publishers’ business models and could also significantly curtail the development of competition in the postal market.

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71% of Japanese post offices lose money in FY '05

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

More than 70 pct of post offices across Japan, mainly those in sparsely populated regions, were unprofitable in fiscal 2005, Japan Post reported Friday.

At total of 14,404 post offices, or 71.2 pct of 20,223 offices nationwide, incurred losses in the fiscal year that ended last March, down by 3,750 from the previous year. The drop is the first since the disclosure of the office-by-office breakdown of business performance started in fiscal 2003.

The number of profitable post offices increased to 5,819.

The total excludes post offices whose operations are consigned to nonprofit organizations.

The latest data provide a fresh indication that Japan’s postal services are maintaining loss-making operations in less populated regions with the help of profits earned in urban areas.

Turning around the unprofitable offices will be a major challenge for the company that will inherit the management of the post office network from Japan Post in a 10-year breakup and privatization process of the government-owned corporation that begins in October 2007.

By prefecture, post offices in 12 prefectures registered profits in fiscal 2005, including Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa, Aichi, Osaka and Fukuoka. The remaining 35 prefectures were in the red, with the cost-to-revenue ratio exceeding 140 pct in six prefectures–Hokkaido, Iwate, Akita, Shimane, Kochi and Kagoshima.

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Canada Post vows to deliver modernization

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

Canada Post will invest billions of dollars to modernize its postal plants across the country in coming years, says president and CEO Moya Greene.
“We need to look at capital renewal in our company,” Greene told the Vancouver Board of Trade in a recent speech. “Our plant equipment is nearly 40 years old.”
The capital-renewal program is the first of three challenges facing the Crown corporation, she added, along with more “fully” engaging its workforce of 71,000 people, and improving its focus on the customer.
Greene said Canada Post’s management team is now “building the platform” for the next 25 years, and is looking at expanding its traditional networks.

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China, Russia and Germany consider logistics JV

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

Russian Railways, Deutsche Bahn and China’s Ministry of Railways signed a Memorandum on Co-operation in Beijing on November 20, 2006, in respect of greater co-operation on Eurasian railway transportation.

The goal of the three parties is to increase rail freight between China and Europe via Russia, and to develop competitive market services in rail transport and logistics.

The parties agreed to establish a joint co-ordinating committee, chaired by Liu Zhijun, China’s Minister of Railways; Hans Mehdorn, CEO of Deutsche Bahn; and Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways.

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Modern technology for Sri Lanka's postal services

Posted by | Nov 23, 2006 | |

Sri Lanka Postal Department sources say that only twenty percent of the country’s 547 main post offices and 3400 smaller post offices are operating at a profit. Therefore the Department has to depend on the nearly Rs. 1.8 billion received annually from the Treasury.

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication is going to recruit 1507 staff for next year in order to enhance the services of the Postal Department.

The Ministry has also planned to obtain modern technology from Japan and the Philippines to uplift the standards of the postal sector. The Department intends to develop the sectors of money order transactions, mail delivery, and telegrams with the modern technology.

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