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India Dept of Posts can take a cue from cousins abroad

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

Even as the department of posts is trying to take shelter of a constitutional amendment to ward-off competition and stay afloat, its foreign counterparts in countries such as Japan, United States, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, are multi-billion dollar corporations that give a run for their money to private players such as Fedex, UPS and TNT in their markets. In contrast, DoP managed less than a billion dollar (Rs 4,500 crore) in revenue during ’04-’05 and its losses are mounting every year. Worse, DoP revenues are stagnating, while its private competitors such as Blue Dart, First Flight and Overnite Express are growing in leaps and bounds. So what’s ailing DoP? The biggest issue seems to be that of financial accountability.

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Profitable An Post sets date for bank products

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

The first financial products from An Post’s joint venture with Belgian bank Fortis will be marketed to the public early next year. Donal Curtin, the chief executive of An Post who is leaving next July, said the electronic funds transfer (EFT) of social-welfare payments, child benefit and unemployment benefit would be among the services offered. He said a full range of financial products could be made available to An Post’s millions of customers through almost 5,000 ‘contact points’. He also stressed that issues like opening hours might not be a problem if ATMs can be made available.

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Hermes and TNT poised to launch strategic cooperation

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

German parcels carrier Hermes Logistik Group and TNT Express are set to launch their strategic cooperation in Germany within the next few weeks. Hermes is also progressing on creating a European B2C delivery network and plans to start selling parcel transport to European destinations in September. Announcing their strategic parcels alliance last December, the two companies said that they would cooperate in several areas of production, with TNT using Hermes’ domestic linehaul network and Hermes using TNT’s hub capacity and offering TNT express services through its network of 11,000 PaketShops.

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Chronopost to develop road network

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

Thomas Lot, chairman of the French CEP service provider Chronopost International, a subsidiary of the GeoPost group (owned by the French national post office La Poste), wants to develop a network linked almost exclusively to road services

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Target hits Carlisle

Posted by | Apr 27, 2006 | |

Target Express has opened a 2,200sq m depot in Carlisle to accommodate a growing customer base within the region.

The depot is six times as large as its previous site in Ecclefechan, which it replaces; ten vehicles make deliveries throughout Cumbria, South-west Scotland and the Scottish borders.

Target has 55 depots through out the UK.

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Switzerland bans Post AG outsourcing parcel business

Posted by | Apr 27, 2006 | |

Swiss Federal Justice Ministry has banned local post carrier Post AG’s plans for outsourcing its parcel business to a joint-stock company in which it has a stake, the company said on April 27, 2006. According to the decision, Post AG can offer universal postal services only from its parent company and not from subsidiaries. Outside the parent company, Post AG is allowed only partial operations such as co-operation with agencies or the delegation of transport services on third parties. After the decision, Post AG said it would abandon its plans to transfer the parcel delivery business into a joint-stock company.

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Pall-Ex pushes its own 'decker design

Posted by | Apr 27, 2006 | |

Pall-Ex wants its members to buy its own standardised double-decker, which it describes as the “ideal hub and operational trailer”.

Andrew Triolo, Pall-Ex business development manager, tells MT: “We will be encouraging our members to opt for this, as commonality is a good thing.” So far only one has gone on the road.

The Pall-Ex-spec trailer, the first of which was built by Montracon and went into operation with Davies Turner in January, incorporates a number of innovative safety features. These include see-through mesh flooring, which allows forklift operators to assess pallet positioning and pre-empt any loading or unloading problems.

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Share offer at UPN

Posted by | Apr 27, 2006 | |

United {Pallet Network is to add member with the carrot of share options for members becoming available in 12 to 24 months time. Simon Hazelgrove, who joined from UK Pallets this month as national sales director, says there are still many well-established hauliers who are not in a network and who will find the share offer an extra attraction.

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