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Couriers Keep Ringing the Doorbell Until Someone Answers

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

Polish Post (Poczta Polska) will soon have to face new competitors. It’s possible our letters will be delivered by yellow-clad Deutsche Post mailmen or La Poste employees is navy blue. Today, we have no choice. If we want to send a letter or a postcard, we have to do so through Polish Post. Until the end of 2008, it has a guaranteed monopoly on light weight parcels (up to 50 grams). Before we send the parcel, it is worth taking a look at the calendar. A priority letter (more expensive than the regular type) will be delivered the day after it is sent, if we put it in the mailbox in morning hours.

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DHL contractor’s workers will join Teamsters

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

Workers at Great Plains Transportation Inc., an area contractor for express delivery firm DHL, voted to unionize last week. Great Plains becomes the first area company to be touched by the Teamsters’ national campaign to organize firms that contract with DHL, the giant delivery company owned by Deutsche Post. Another election is scheduled on May 20 at Mid-Continent Transport, a DHL contractor in St. Joseph. The Teamsters have said more than 1,300 workers at DHL contractor firms around the country have voted to join the union.

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UPS to expand air freight network

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

As part of its expansion in the air freight business, UPS today announced plans to construct five regional freight hubs at airports across the country.
The regional facilities, when completed and brought on line next year, will support a main freight hub to be constructed in Louisville, Ky., home to the company’s main all-points air hub. The six facilities will form the backbone of an expansive air network for the movement of heavy freight for customers of UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The new facilities will be constructed in Ontario, Calif.; Rockford, Ill.; Dallas; Philadelphia, and Columbia, S.C. Those airports already serve as regional hubs for UPS’s separate small package network, meaning UPS jets are routinely flying in and out every day.

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Poste Italiane, Banca Italease launch Leasing BancoPosta

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane and local leasing company Banca Italease SpA launched on May 10, 2005, the joint service Leasing BancoPosta. Leasing BancoPosta is intended for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), traders and freelancers. They can apply for a financing of up to 150, 000 euro (USD 192, 795) for real estate and capital goods purchases.

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UPS Board Sets Dividend

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

The Board of Directors of UPS today declared a regular quarterly dividend of 33-cents per share on all outstanding Class A and Class B shares. The dividend is payable June 1, 2005, to shareholders of record on May 16, 2005.

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Brazil: DHL invests USD 20 million to expand

Posted by | May 9, 2005 | |

With the aim of two-folding the size of the Brazilian operations in a short-term DHL Express wants to expand the participation of big companies in its client portfolio. The company intends to have 80% of its income with the big companies. The remainder 20% would come from the small and middle sized companies. Presently 40% of the income comes from the big companies and 60% from the small and middle sized. Of the US$20mil to be invested in Brazil this year half is being injected in automation and IT.

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Top appointment by TNT in Kuwait

Posted by | May 9, 2005 | |

Leading executive Richard Clayton has taken the reins of TNT in Kuwait.

It marks a return to the Gulf for Clayton who has served as general manager of Kuwait and Bahrain operations before.

Clayton says: ‘The key focus for this year is to further develop our core business here in Kuwait and to expand on the Middle Eastern Road Network we set up last year. This is proving to be a great success and offers considerable opportunity for further expansion.’

Clayton takes up his position in Kuwait at a particularly exciting time for the Dutch-owned integrator in the Middle East. TNT recently announced it is recording year-on-year revenue growth of more than 25 per cent in the region.

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