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French Sidetrade signs integration, distribution contract with Maileva

Posted by | Aug 25, 2005 | |

French financial software solutions provider Sidetrade has signed an integration and distribution contract with French mail services company Maileva, a subsidiary of French national post office La Poste, it was reported on August 24, 2005. Under the contract Sidetrade will integrate the Maileva service for sending paper documents from a computer within its online platform Sidetrade Network. Sidetrade will offer outsourcing mailing services for mails, e-mails and faxes using the Maileva technology which allows the users to send electronic versions of documents to Maileva. These documents are then addressed to the recipient via fax, e-mail or via the postal office.

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Hong Kong-Shanghai: DHL stays competitive by increasing capacity 35%

Posted by | Aug 25, 2005 | |

DHL said Wednesday that it has upgraded its uplift capacity on the Hong Kong-Shanghai sector by 35 percent in response to the tremendous growth in demand express services in Asia. According to Jerry Hsu, president for Greater China and Korea at DHL Express, the five times weekly Hong Kong-Shanghai service, previously operated by a Dragonair A300B4, has been replaced by a Cathay Pacific-operated service with an Air Hong Kong Airbus A300-600GF. The Freighter, with a capacity of 47 tonnes, represents an increase in payload capacity of almost 35 percent, from 35 tonnes previously, he said. He added that DHL last upgraded the payload capacity on this route in June 2004, 12 months after the service was first launched, in response to increasing demand and surging intra-Asia shipment volumes.

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Croatia Mail deliveries up 10.1 Pct Y/Y H1 2005

Posted by | Aug 25, 2005 | |

A total of 175.36 million mail items were delivered in Croatia in the first half of 2005, up by 10.1 pct year-on-year, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics reported. A total of 89.6 million items were delivered in the second quarter of 2005, a 4.5 pct quarter-on-quarter and 10.2 pct year-on-year increase. Domestic mail deliveries at 163.2 million items accounted for 93 pct of the total number. International services included 4.8 million mail items delivered from abroad, down by 16.3 pct, and 7.3 million mail deliveries to foreign countries, down by 4.2 pct.

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Swiss Die Post AG net profit up to 271.1 Mln Euro H1 2005

Posted by | Aug 24, 2005 | |

Swiss postal carrier Die Post AG increased its net profit by 10.5 pct year-on-year to 421 mln Swiss francs (USD330.7 mln/271.1 mln euro) in the first half of 2005, but said it expected a weaker second half and projected an annual decline in full-year net profit. Full-2004 net profit, adjusted to meet the amended IAS 39 accounting standards, was record-high 830 mln francs ($651.9 mln/534.4 mln euro).

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Two Bulgarian companies seek licence to handle postal money orders

Posted by | Aug 24, 2005 | |

Local companies Factor I.N. and Easypay have applied before Bulgaria’s Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) for licences to operate as providers of postal money order services. Factor I.N. is 52%-owned by Iliyan Naskov, a former parliamentary secretary of the regional development minister, with 40% held by Kiril Dobrev, son of former interior minister Nikolai Dobrev.
Easypay is a subsidiary of software firm Datamax. The company intends to partner with Bulgarian Posts and offer services through the office of the state-owned postal operator, said Easypay manager Bozhidar Grigorov. The company will seek partnerships with banks and commercial chains as well, said the official.

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Hand Held Products signs five year maintenance contract with DPD

Posted by | Aug 24, 2005 | |

Hand Held Products, the world’s leading supplier of image-based data capture systems, has signed a pan-European agreement with DPD (Deutscher Paket Dienst GmbH & Co KG), a subsidiary of La Poste and part of the GeoPost group. Under the new agreement, which runs until 2010, Hand Held Products will provide support and maintenance services on over 6,000 Dolphin 9500 mobile computers. The Dolphins are being used in DPD’s depots and delivery trucks in Europe. The two companies had already signed an agreement earlier this year, when DPD installed an automated delivery scan system based around the Dolphins.

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Dutch TNT Logistics eyes up to 25 Pct growth in Brazil

Posted by | Aug 23, 2005 | |

TNT Logistics, a unit of Dutch mail, express and logistics company TNT, plans to grow by between 20 pct and 25 pct in the next five years in Brazil, according to the company’s global chief of marketing and business development, Pierre Girardin. According to Girardin, Brazilian companies need to invest in technology to reduce their spending on logistics. Brazilian companies spent an average between 10 pct and 12 pct of the gross domestic product (GDP) on logistics, compared with between 8.0 pct and 10 pct of GDP in the United States and Europe.

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