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Cybit partnership with SPL World Group will use dynamic data to underpin dynamic routing

Posted by | Oct 10, 2006 | |

Cybit, the UK’s leading online Telematics Service Provider (TSP), has partnered with SPL World Group, to combine its Enterprise RealTime Scheduler and Cybit’s leading telematics solution, Fleetstar-MRM. This unique offering will use dynamic, company-specific vehicle data to underpin dynamic scheduling capabilities, so that organisations in the field service and home delivery sectors can achieve unprecedented accuracy in their business planning. The use of actual vehicle and road speeds in the scheduling process ensures that plans are neither over- nor under-stated and this calibration of data in the system will enable businesses to enhance productivity by as much as ten per cent.

The unique proposition moves away from previous approaches that used average road speeds to design schedules, so that businesses can now ensure their plans match reality. Closed loop planning using historic GPS-based travel times ensures accuracy within the schedules so that companies can clearly identify the resources they need and when they need them. These calibrations can be updated at regular intervals to ensure that they match the planned journey times.

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TNT Post accelerates expansion in Germany

Posted by | Oct 10, 2006 | |

TNT Post announced it has been granted approval by the German Cartel authorities to take over Germany’s market leader in mail consolidation, PostCon Deutschland AG. TNT Post also announced it has expanded its own delivery network with another three businesses in the German federal states of Berlin-Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Lower Saxony. This reinforces TNT Post’s position as the number one challenger in the German market for delivering addressed mail. In 2006 TNT Post expects its revenues to increase to EUR 200 million. “TNT Post aims to increase its share of the German addressed mail market to about 10per cent within the next five years,” says TNT Post Germany Managing Director Mario Frusch, “making us the biggest competitor for Deutsche Post AG.”

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100percent takeover of Croatian direct marketing company Weber Escal by Österreichische Post AG

Posted by | Oct 10, 2006 | |

Austrian postal operator now active on the Croatian market not only in the parcel, but also in the direct mail sector

Österreichische Post AG is now present on the direct mail market not only in Hungary (feibra Hungary since September 2005) and in Slovakia (KOLOS s.r.o. since April 2006), but also in Croatia, with direct marketing company Weber Escal. After the signing of the contract in early October, closing is scheduled for January 2007.
Weber Escal, which was established in 1994, is active in the delivery of non-addressed mail items in Croatia, offering nation-wide coverage in this sector.

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Interview – Aramex aims to be world's number 5 express operator

Posted by | Oct 9, 2006 | |

Aramex, the Middle East-based independent express company, aims to grow into the world’s fifth-largest express operator through selective acquisitions and by expanding its partner network, a senior executive told CEP-Research.

Although the “Big Four” – DHL, FedEx, UPS and TNT – were clearly “in the premier league”, Aramex wanted to head the “second division” of regional players, Adrian Horsley, Vice-President Express Services, said on the sidelines of last week’s Asia Pacific Mail & Express 2006 conference in Singapore.

The Jordan-based and Dubai-listed company expects its 2006 revenues to grow to US$330 million from USD232 million in 2005, largely due to acquisitions of smaller freight companies in the Middle East and Europe over the last year, Horsley said. In 2005, it generated about 55% of revenues from international and domestic express transport, and about 33% from freight forwarding. The company, whose key markets are the Middle East and India, has some 260 offices in 45 countries in total.

“Our mission is to be recognized as the fifth-largest global distribution player by 2008. With the Global Distribution Alliance, Aramex has a true global international express distribution system that is 95% managed and controlled by us,” Horsley declared.

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One in every four post boxes still without a tab

Posted by | Oct 9, 2006 | |

A nationwide survey undertaken on 19th September by Postwatch, the watchdog for postal services, has revealed that one in every four post boxes fails to display the correct collection tab – despite Royal Mail’s commitment to fully reintroduce the tabs by June.

The survey found that of 1,647 post boxes visited:

” 301 did not display a collection tab
” 95 displayed an incorrect tab
” Leaving 1,251 post boxes displaying the correct tab – 76 percent of the total surveyed

Collection tabs are important to customers as they indicate the daily final collection from a post box has been made. Royal Mail removed them in 2002. Following customer complaints and a Postwatch campaign, the company then agreed to reintroduce collection tabs.

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U.S. Postal Service extends managed services pact with Verizon Business

Posted by | Oct 9, 2006 | |

Verizon Business, a leading communications provider to the federal government, announced today that it has been awarded a two-year extension of its existing Managed Network Services contract with the United States Postal Service.

The agreement extends the current contract — which was due to expire on March 23, 2008 — through March 23, 2010. The agreement also includes two one- year extension options, through 2012.

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Deutsche Post To Sell Vfw

Posted by | Oct 9, 2006 | |

German postal services group Deutsche Post AG plans to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, the local reverse logistics company Vfw AG, Deutsche Post reported on October 9, 2006.

The move is part of a portfolio management programme at the postal services group.

According to Deutsche Post, Vfw’s activities are not part of group’s core business. The group acquired Vfw at the end of 2005, alongside British logistics group Excel.

Deutsche Post said it had exclusively mandated German investment bank Metzler to carry out the sale of 100 pct in the subsidiary.

Vfw, which is one of the leading service providers in its sector in Germany, is planning to set up an alternative waste-processing service to rival the Green Point system of local rival Duales System Deutschland GmbH, Deutsche Post said.

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Postal bill likely to turn courier firms poorer by Rs 670 cr

Posted by | Oct 9, 2006 | |

The Indian express and courier industry could suffer a revenue loss of Rs 670 crore a year, or 30-35per cent reduction in business if proposed changes to the postal regulations go through, says a new survey and research report ‘Express Service Industry in India’ by the Mumbai-based Credit Analysis and Research (CARE) advisory. The proposed amendment to the bill allows India Post total exclusivity over all document shipments weighing less than 300 grams.
The report estimates the size of the Indian express industry at Rs 7,100 crore with 2,500 players, derived from their service tax payment of Rs 630 crore in ’05-06. This makes it bigger than the tea and entertainment industries. CARE’s study shows that over 52per cent of all domestic express volumes are documents, of which 70per cent weigh less than 300gm. Roughly 37per cent of all express documents are for the same-city, and 16per cent are to metro cities.

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