UK Pallets sent 4 of its directors, including recently promoted MD Mark Hazelgrove, home on gardening leave last week. The move is part of plans to restructure the business, Managing Director Terry Richards told Motor Transport this week. ‘There have been no sackings as rumour suggests – we are just restructuring. We are certainly not moving our of pallets‘ he says.
Read MoreDavid Burtenshaw, chief executive of Lynx Express until its acquisition by UPS in 2005, is planning a new career in business advisory. Burtenshaw has been assisting the integration of the two companies. He will continue to be available as a consultant to UPS on an ongoing basis.
Alan Cramley has retired from the pallet sector after stints with Pall-Ex and most recently Fortec Pallet, where he was business development director.
Read MoreUPS today announced it had completed the rollout of UPS Trade Direct Air and Ocean services to facilitate export shipments from the United States and Canada to Europe. UPS Trade Direct services streamline the supply chain by making it easy to move goods through customs that are destined for multiple locations but transported in one shipment. Trade Direct eliminates the need for client distribution centers in the receiving country for breaking apart freight shipments, minimizing handling and carrying costs. This latest expansion follows the successful implementation of the service in 2004 along other major routes. UPS launched Trade Direct services outbound from Europe to the United States in January 2005 as well as inbound from Asia to Europe in June 2005.
Read MoreExecutive summary
Part 1
Introduction
Royal Mail
The European Framework
The universal postal service in the Postal Services Act
Postcomm
Audit scope, Criteria and Methodology
Part 2
The current performance regime
The need for a performance regime
The design of the current performance regime
Shortcomings of the current performance regime
Additional measures of quality of service
Incentives on Royal Mail
Royal Mail’s performance
Part 3
The proposed performance regime
A more consumer focussed performance measurement system
Defining the universal postal service further
Greater clarity in implementation
The future of the proposed regime
Appendices
Audit criteria and methodology
Results of the National Audit Office survey of domestic users of postal services
Correlations
International benchmarking
Research examined during the audit
Timescale for 2006 Price Control
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Trans-o-flex, the German express company, has signed a contract with T-Systems to increase the security of its IT Network. The carrier has also opened a new €5.5 million depot in Saarland, on the French border.
Read MoreFedEx Corporation today reported earnings of USD1.38 per diluted share for the third quarter ended February 28, compared to USD1.03 per diluted share a year ago, a year-over-year increase of 34%. Highlights from the consolidated results for the third quarter include: revenue of USD8.00 billion, up 9% from USD7.34 billion the previous year, operating income of USD713 million, up 29% from USD552 million a year ago and net income of UD428 million, up 35% from UDS317 million the previous year. “FedEx continues to deliver strong results by providing outstanding customer service around the world and by crisply executing our strategy of balancing volume and revenue growth with cost containment to improve our margins,” said Frederick W. Smith, chairman, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Corp. “With our broad portfolio of services, FedEx is uniquely positioned to take advantage of continued growth in the global economy.”
Read MoreThe Royal Mail was over-burdened by parts of the regime regulating its services, according to an official report today. The National Audit Office (NAO) said there was scope to improve the way the regulations were implemented by Postcomm, which would reduce the burdens. These included cutting the length and detail of investigations into Royal Mail services, according to the report, Opening the Post. The study found that postal deliveries had been improving since regulation was introduced, although it singled out areas including North West London and South East London where target levels were not being achieved.
Sir John Bourn, head of the NAO, said: “The problem of regulating a monopoly such as Royal Mail is that it tends to involve advocacy, litigation and dispute.
“That is why competition is in the long run a less costly and burdensome way of protecting consumers. This report encourages Postcomm to minimise the costs and maximise the benefits in the short term while withdrawing from detailed regulation in the medium term.”
TNT today unveiled one of Asia’s most sophisticated medical logistics facilities in Shanghai, China. Constructed at a cost of 1 million Euro, the state-of-the-art facility in the WaiGaoQiao Free Trade Zone is TNT’s first dedicated Life Science National Distribution Centre (NDC) and will complement its Regional Life Science Distribution Centre (RDC) in Singapore. TNT’s China NDC was set up in response to the needs of the industry for bespoke services to cater to the world’s fastest growing healthcare market.
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