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Japanese postal privatization bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

Posted by | Jul 4, 2005 | |

A set of bills to privatize Japan Post passed the House of Representatives ad hoc committee Monday on the strength of the ruling bloc, clearing the way for a vote at a lower house plenary session Tuesday. The six privatization bills and four bills to amend them cleared the Special Committee on Postal Privatization as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, supported it against opposition from the opposition camp. The ruling parties now aim to pass the bills through the full lower house on Tuesday before Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves for the summit of the Group of Eight nations to be held Wednesday through Friday in Scotland. Koizumi aims to pass the bills during the current Diet session through Aug. 13.

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Soft drinks company Vrumona new customer of TNT Logistics Benelux

Posted by | Jul 4, 2005 | |

Soft drinks manufacturer Vrumona based in Bunnik, the Netherlands, has chosen for a partnership with TNT Benelux & Multi Country Logistics. Vrumona has engaged the TNT Logistics site at Maarssen to handle its point of sale materials (POS) for the coming years. Implementation of the Vrumona account began on 4 April 2005.

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SNCF sheds parcel arm

Posted by | Jul 4, 2005 | |

SNCF is poised to announce that it is relinquishing control of loss-making parcel delivery arm Sernam through a managment buy-out. The French state rail operator had invited offers for the company, through a European tender issued last autumn. However, of the 20 to 30 firms that made initial enquiries, none confirmed an interest in acquiring the company, which made a loss of EUR40m in 2003.

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Dempsey: Irish An Post will be wiped out

Posted by | Jul 3, 2005 | |

Communications minister Noel Dempsey has warned management and workers at An Post that the company will be wiped out” by competition unless it is dramatically reformed soon. The reality of this, and people have to grasp it, is that in 2009we will have a fully liberalised market, Dempsey said last week. And if we’ve a fully liberalised market, An Post as it exists today will be wiped out within, I would say, six months. Dempsey was blunt in his warnings to An Post, which has been beset by tensions between workers and management over a restructuring and rationalisation plan.

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Investigation into aid for Poland‘s postal provider

Posted by | Jul 2, 2005 | |

A formal investigation is to be launched into state aid for Poland’s postal service provider. The European Commission announced on June 29 that it plans to investigate compensation offered by the Polish government to Poczta Polska for providing the universal postal service. More specifically, the investigation will look at the aid granted to Poczta Polska both as compensation for losses incurred and for the investments made by the company as part of its day-to-day business of providing postal services in Poland. The Commission is concerned that Poczta Polska has failed to correctly evaluate the cost of running postal services, and that this evaluation could, therefore, mean that it has received more aid than it is actually entitled to.

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Japan Post to enter parcel delivery service for frozen food

Posted by | Jul 2, 2005 | |

Japan Post will start testing a parcel delivery service for frozen food in Kyushu this month through a tie-up with Nippon Express Co. ahead of the scheduled launch of a nationwide service later this year, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Saturday. During the three-month trial, Japan Post will accept parcels whose senders and receivers are both located in the Kyushu region in southwestern Japan, the report said, adding Nippon Express will pick up, store and deliver parcels weighing less than 4 kilograms on behalf of Japan Post.

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Development of competition in the European postal sector

Posted by | Jul 1, 2005 | |

Postal sector regulation and postal sector policy

Forces governing competition (Porter analysis, contestability of markets)

The universal postal operator: facts, figures, strategy

Competitor postal operators and effect of competition on market structure and market performance

Regulatory framework, liberalisation and access regulation

Market size of the postal sector and country information

Facts and figures for the national postal operator (US provider)

Competitor postal operators and market structure of the postal sector

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Privatisation of Austrian postal service likely in 2006

Posted by | Jul 1, 2005 | |

Osterreichische Post (Post Austria), the 100percent state-owned mail service provider, is currently in the midst of a large-scale restructuring process aimed at streamlining operations and reducing costs ahead of the government’s objective to privatise the company in 2006 (a final decision on the sale is expected to be taken in September 2005). Post has cut its workforce by more than 5,000 employees over the past four years, and this, coupled with other cost-saving measures such as reduced overtime and the hiring of part-time workers, has turned the traditional loss-making firm into a profitable enterprise. In early May the company announced plans to close 310 post offices (out of a total of 1,640) by the middle of 2005, generating annual savings of EUR23m. All provinces will be affected, with Lower and Upper Austria hit particularly badly.

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