Norbert Dentressangle Group recorded business growth of 15.9% in the first half of 2006.
As previously announced, the Logistics business, up 17.9%, reflected the recovery in organic growth with the development of new contracts. The Logistics division also continued the integration of the businesses acquired from TNT Logistics France throughout the first half of the year.
Royal Mail is using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to monitor the flow of post, to identify problem areas and improve delivery services.
Last year more than 14 million letters were lost, stolen, damaged or tampered with, and more than seven per cent of mail was not delivered on time.Royal Mail is using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to monitor the flow of post, to identify problem areas and improve delivery services.
Read MoreFollowing the publication of the PWC study on the “Impact on Universal Ser-vice of the Full Market Accomplishment of the Postal Internal Market in 2009”, the postal operators of Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Lux-embourg, Poland and Spain, which account for over 50% of the Community population, express their concern about the study outcomes and plead the European Commission for a balanced approach when drawing up future postal legislation
At the beginning of this month of July, the European Commission published a study undertaken at its request by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in order to assess, in each member State, the impact on the universal postal provision of a full liberalisation in 2009.
The DPD network has been extended to Kazakhstan with the creation of the new joint venture, GeoPost Caspian. The expansion move is designed to take account of rising parcel volumes to the Eurasian region.
GeoPost Caspian was founded as a joint venture between local parcel operator Globalink in Kazakhstan and the Turkish DPD franchisee GeoPost Yurtici Kargo Servisi. The new company is the DPD franchisee for Kazakhstan.
Read MoreDr. Badr Al Badr, General Manager of Cisco Systems Saudi Arabia, has signed an agreement with the Saudi Post Corporation (SPC), the sole postal service provider in KSA, to transform their network and communications infrastructure by deploying Cisco’s LAN and WAN networking, Data Center, IP Telephony (Cisco Call Center), and Networking Security solutions.
“This is a model project where we have worked with SPC since the early stages of the project. We conducted two value creation workshops in London and Riyadh respectively to define the transformational themes and align the technology requirements to SPC’s business objective; as a result, a blueprint for the project has been developed”, Dr. Al Badr said.
Read MoreWhat’s the difference between putting a letter and a
CD in a mailbox? If you’re Canada Post, as much as a few dollars.
The Crown corporation wants to stop customers from mailing CDs,
T-shirts and other “non-paper” items to the United States and other
foreign destinations in envelopes that are meant only for paper.
It has developed a new “light-packet” system designed exclusively
for non-paper goods and is expected to announce details of the new
system today.
Changes will take effect on Aug. 21.
Read MoreIndia has been growing rapidly with over 1 billion potential consumers and a 200 million middle class. Combined with a huge talent pool and progressive government policies, India is the focal point of growth. The logistics industry has over the years faced a few challenges such as central and state tax, local levies licenses, registrations and paperwork with infrastructure development. The market although large is predominantly fragmented with multiple factors demographic, retail, media, land & supplier fragmentation. But the scenario is fast improving with an enthusiastic upswing in infrastructure. The Golden Quadrilateral Project , a planned network of divided 4-lane highways to connect all its major cities, is a good start.
Read MoreABX Air, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, ABX Cargo Services, has been awarded the contract to manage the U.S. Postal Service’s terminal handling services at its Surface Transfer Center (STC) in Dallas, Texas.
The contract calls for ABX to be compensated at a firm price for its fixed costs, plus an additional amount based on the volume of mail handled. Based on projected volumes, ABX Air anticipates that its revenues under the contract could total about USD 20 million during the four-year term of the contract. This contract provides for two, two-year extensions at the discretion of the U.S. Postal Service.
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