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Parcelforce adds 50p to C-charge deliveries

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

The Royal Mail’s courier business is introducing a 50p levy for deliveries inside the congestion charging zone.

Parcelforce said it was following competitors in the parcel delivery business by adding a surcharge for deliveries in central London.

A Parcelforce spokesman said it was difficult to estimate how much of the charge would be recovered. But he said the 50p surcharge paid by the sender covered consignments rather than individual items. “This is a very competitive market and we have to cover costs,” he said.

However, one of its biggest rivals, TNT, denied it had imposed a levy – and Transport for London said it had no record of any business asking customers to foot the bill. TNT said the c-charge was costing its operations Pounds 1,100 a vehicle a year but added it was absorbing the extra cost.

Some companies are believed to have passed on the extra costs in higher tariffs but Parcelforce has gone further by itemising the impact of the charge on its operations. Two years ago Royal Mail estimated the charge was costing its letters and parcel businesses Pounds 2 million a year.

Now business customers fear other delivery and transport groups will follow Parcelforce, which delivers around one million parcels a week nationwide.

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Canada's mail carriers to use own cars?

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

Canada Post has sent a letter to the union representing its employees suggesting mail carriers be given the choice of using their personal vehicles on their routes to deliver mail, Radio-Canada reported Monday.

Use of personal vehicles already goes on but that flies in the face of the mail carriers’ current contract, which forbids them from transporting mail sacks to local grey pickup boxes or carrying mail in their cars.

Canada Post wants the mail carriers to be able to transport the mail in their vehicles, saying it would better enable them to compete with courier companies such as FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. and boost productivity.

However, the union fears that 1,000 jobs could be lost if the current system of having mail trucks transport the mail is curtailed.

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Pakistan Post being modernised

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

Pakistan Post has prepared a comprehensive plan to transform this national institution on modern and professional lines, said Chairman Pakistan Postal Services Management Board Arshad Khan.

While addressing the operational staff, he further said that this plan envision Pakistan Post as customer-friendly, efficient, modern and yet as a self-sustainable organisation and 24 goals and targets have been set to achieve above stated key objectives.

While touching some of key elements of new vision plan including human resource development, technology upgradation and process reengineering, he said that improvement in quality of service and credibility has been given highest priority.

He also said that plan encompasses incentive based policies to benefit staff and motivate them to discharge their duties in efficient manner.

He asked the staff to change market dynamics and emphasised them for service-oriented and customer-friendly culture in order to remain competitive in rapidly changing market situation.

He also briefed about departmental courier service and collection of utility bills from doorsteps of the public through postman staff.

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The Wine Society benefits from a cross-depot solution to its distribution needs from PalletFORCE

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

PalletFORCE Member, Beattie Brothers has enhanced the service it offers to its customer, The Wine Society, by setting up a warehousing deal with fellow PalletFORCE Member, Transvan.

The world’s oldest co-operative wine club, the Wine Society delivers to members nationwide from its base in Stevenage. The company has its own fleet of vans based around the country, which are used to deliver locally from nine strategically located warehouses.

The company has been using Beattie Brothers to deliver pallets to these warehouses for several years and was sufficiently confident of their relationship that, when Beattie Brothers moved from Palletways to PalletFORCE, The Wine Society was happy to follow suit.

Recently, The Wine Society needed to find a new warehouse for the Manchester region, and Beattie Brothers suggested using fellow Member Depot Transvan, based in Aston-in-Makerfield, near Liverpool.

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DHL Express (India) to expand capacity by 50% in 2 years

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

The Ministry of communications’ proposal to bring down FDI in courier services to 49% from 100% does not seem to be having much impact on foreign companies in the sector. DHL Express, the leading courier and logistics company in India, plans to expand its capacity by more than 50% in the next 2-3 years.
In the last 3-4 years, the company has invested around USD 250 million in India. Craig Grossgart, country manager, DHL Express India, told ET, “We don’t think there’s much need to panic. The proposal has been discussed in various quarters and we are confident that the interest of the industry will be taken care of. As of now, we are all set to go ahead with our expansion plans.”
In the next 3 months, the company is looking at adding a fresh 19 outlets to its existing retail network of 55 outlets, spread in 12 cities. The new outlets will be set up in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.

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Postbank grows further. Profit before tax rises 18.6 percent in the first nine months

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

Deutsche Postbank AG grew further in the first nine months. Compared with the first three quarters of 2005, its pre-tax profit climbed 18.6 percent to EUR 651 million (the comparable data for the first three quarters of 2005 are pro forma data in which BHW and the branches are included arithmetically). After adjustment for special effects, especially as a result of the integration, operating profit before tax increased in the first nine months by 31.1 percent year-on-year to EUR 720 million. The cost/income ratio improved from 75.2 percent to 70.1 percent. In the traditional banking business, i.e. excluding Transaction Banking, the ratio fell more sharply still from 74.0 percent to 68.6 percent. Return on equity before tax rose from 14.9 percent to 17.3 percent.

Total income improved further by 5.5 percent to EUR 3.0 billion. Balance-sheet related revenues – in other words the total of net interest income, net income from investment securities and net trading income – jumped 8.0 percent to EUR 2.0 billion. The growth driver here remained the net interest income which picked up pace again when compared over nine months. Supported by the expanded volume of customer loans, it increased by 9.1 percent to EUR 1.6 billion. Net income from investment securities rose by 2.2 percent to EUR 183 million and net trading income by 4.6 percent to EUR 181 million.

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FedEx drops Airbus order and goes with Boeing

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

FedEx Express, which is based in Memphis, Tenn., canceled its order for 10 Airbus A380 superjumbo jets and went with 15 Boeing 777 long-range aircraft.

The FedEx Corp. Tuesday said in a statement that “significant delays” in the A380 deliveries prompted the shift to the U.S. aeronautics giant.

Besides ordering 15 airborne freighters, each of which carries a list price of around USD236 million, FedEx also obtained an option for another 15 Boeing 777 aircraft.

“The availability and delivery timing of this aircraft, coupled with its attractive payload range and economics, make this choice the best decision for FedEx, its customers, shareowners and employees,” said FedEx Chief Executive Frederick Smith.

FedEx Express continues to be Airbus’ largest wide-body airplane customer and will add new and used Airbus wide-body aircraft to its fleet. Six new A300-600 aircraft are scheduled to join the FedEx fleet in 2007.

The 777 is the world’s largest twin-engine cargo aircraft with a range of more than 6,100 nautical miles and a revenue payload capacity of 171,000 pounds. FedEx expects to take delivery of four of the 777 aircraft in calendar year 2009, eight in 2010 and the remaining three in 2011.

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Empost increases delivery fleet capacity by adding 25 new service vans

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

With the additional vehicles, Empost now has over 470 vehicles comprising of motorcycles, vans and trucks.

Sultan Al Midfa, CEO, Empost said: ‘Empost is committed to providing prompt, reliable and efficient services to the company’s growing base of corporate and individual clients. Expansion of the Empost delivery fleet is part of the company’s strategic plans to expand its geographical area of operations and grow its market share in the country.’

Empost, the UAE’s national courier company has expanded its delivery fleet by introducing 25 new service vans to enhance operational efficiency and competitiveness in the courier services market.

‘As the leading provider of customised and innovative courier services in the UAE, Empost strives to adopt international best practices in the industry to improve the quality of our services in the country. In addition, Empost is partnering with various international organisations aiming at furthering the reach of our services to cover more international destinations,’ he added.

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