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Teamsters target DHL

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

As it battles for a larger share of express shipping in the United States, DHL is getting the attention of more than just shippers and competitors. The express giant is facing an aggressive effort by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union to organize the company’s independent delivery workforce. Started in force late last summer, the union campaign has recruited about 1,500 employees at DHL’s independent cartage contractors to the union ranks, said Rebecca Hanscom, national campaign coordinator for the DHL system at the Teamsters. That is just a fraction of the 10,000 independent delivery agents at DHL, but the union is mounting a national and grassroots campaign to recruit the balance. The objective is to recruit members at the local level, forge regional agreements and eventually press for a master contract covering all DHL employees.

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Deutsche Post rivals seek more access to mail sorting and delivery

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

At least two competitors of Deutsche Post World Net AG want to have more access to the mail sorting, consolidating and delivery business, according to Financial Times Deutschland, citing Post rival GLS.

GLS chief executive Rico Back said he is confident GLS would be able to force Deutsche Post to open up its monopoly in this area.

Meanwhile Consultancy firm DID Vedat Deniz, which specialises in postal monopoly issues, told the same newspaper it is acting on behalf of a second interested party which is also seeking access to the logistics company.

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Italy Poste Italiane to employ staff in Basilicata

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane plans to employ personnel in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, the regional secretaries of Italian trade unions Slc-Cgil, Slp Cisl and Uilpost said on April 23, 2005.

According to the trade unions, after a meeting with managers of Poste Italiane, it became clear that the company will not employ 100 workers with permanent employment contracts, as it was previously announced.

Poste Italiane will employ 20 in Potenza and five in Matera with permanent contracts, another 10 with fixed-term contracts, 17 to substitute the persons during the summer holidays, and 21 to substitute other missing employees.

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FedEx to operate Shanghai-bound cargo flights from Chubu airport

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

FedEx Corp. of the United States said Monday it will operate five Shanghai-bound direct cargo flights per week from Chubu Centrair International Airport near Nagoya starting May 9. This will bring the number of flights FedEx operates from Chubu airport to nine per week, including the existing four North America-bound flights. FedEx expects to draw strong demand for cargo flights from automobile and precision equipment manufacturers based in and outside of Nagoya, central Japan.

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DHL plans sea and air freight coup

Posted by | Apr 25, 2005 | |

German-owned parcel and logistics giant DHL has underlined its ambition to become the global number one in sea and air freight forwarding. ‘Our impressive results show that we have successfully advanced our growth course and succeeded in convincing many new customers of our global capacity in a highly competitive market,’ said Dr Frank Appel, board member of the Deutsche Post subsidiary.

DHL Danzas Air ‘ Ocean already ranks itself as the number one air freight forwarder, and number two in ocean freight, second only to Kuehne + Nagel, which handled 1.6m teu worldwide last year.

However, the combined top five sea freight players have a market share of less than 25percent, with DHL itself accounting for about about 7.3percent.

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UK Royal Mail workers set for pounds 200m bonanza after profits hit new high

Posted by | Apr 24, 2005 | |

Postal workers are to share a pounds 200m windfall after annual profits at the Royal Mail surged to a record high. The state-owned postal group will not publish its full-year results until 17 May. But The Independent on Sunday has learnt that profits will come in at more than pounds 500m, with revenues up between 4 and 5 per cent. That will trigger the payout to postal workers, the biggest in the organisation’s history. All employees who have been with the company for more than a year are eligible for the payout ” likely to be around pounds 1,000 each ” from sorting room to staff to chief executive Adam Crozier. It is understood, however, that chairman Allan Leighton, who took up the role in 2002, has decided to forgo his bonus.

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The man who wants to deliver your post – Nick Wells Interview

Posted by | Apr 24, 2005 | |

Nick Wells sold his marketing firm to the Dutch giant TPG for Pounds 20m. Now he is heading its bid to blow apart the Royal Mail’s 350-year monopoly.

By the time I am up the narrow staircase Nick Wells is already apologising. “I bet you’ve not seen many offices as unglamorous as this?” he grins, waving his hand around.

Well, probably not. Wells’s base for TNT Mail UK, the Dutch-owned business mail start-up that is taking on Royal Mail, is a small two-storey warehouse off a suburban road in outer Maidenhead.

The reception area downstairs fits two at a pinch. Wells’s cardboard-walled office, overlooked by the bedrooms of the semi- detached houses opposite, might fit four. Even the three named directors’ parking slots in the tiny car park outside seem more like desperate pragmatism than any folly of hubris.

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