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DHL to expand express logistics facility in Jebel Ali

Posted by | Feb 21, 2005 | |

DHL UAE will open a 6,000 square metre express logistics centre in Jebel Ali Free Zone, officials said. “This major new investment has been necessitated by constant growth in our business out of Jebel Ali, which has recorded 20 per cent year-on-year growth since it opened five years ago,” said David Wild, general manager of DHL UAE. The new facility is due to open in April and is the first in a three-phase, five-year DHL Jebel Ali development programme, company officials said. Phase 2 will start next year, with a proposed 20,000 square metre warehouse in the free zone.

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Belgian De Post/La Poste To Restructure Post Offices 2005

Posted by | Feb 21, 2005 | |

Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste plans to restructure its post offices in 2005 in order to increase their efficiency.

A total 300 of its 1,300 post offices were profitable in 2004. The offices registered a total 200 mln euro (USD260.5 mln) loss.

The company plans to expand the distribution of its products via banks, supermarkets and news stands.

De Post/La Poste (www.post.be) posted a profit of 36 mln euro ($46.9 mln) in 2004, compared to a 64 mln euro (USD83.3 mln) loss for 2003.

Currently, the company has 37,920 full-time employees. It services some 3.7 billion consignments annually.

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Good profitability and increased revenues lead to earnings of more than NOK 1 billion for Norway Post

Posted by | Feb 21, 2005 | |

The Norway Post Group’s preliminary results for 2004 show earnings before tax of NOK 1,079 million, up NOK 623 million from 2003. This development is due both to increased revenues and successful efficiency initiatives. “The result for 2004 shows that Norway Post has developed a profitable postal organisation that is ready to meet full competition from 2007. We have restructured operations by developing Norway Post’s strengths, extending our range of services by combining electronic information and physical distribution, and have made us more capable of resistance,” says Norway Post chief executive Kaare Frydenberg.

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State control of Japanese postal holding firm to be limited

Posted by | Feb 21, 2005 | |

The Japanese government has unveiled its outline of bills for privatizing the country’s postal operations, which will oblige the state to sell two-thirds of its stake in a proposed postal services holding company by the end of March 2017. The outline, compiled by the government’s preparatory office for postal business privatization scheduled for April 2007, was shown to the ministries and agencies concerned on Friday. To realize a smooth transition to the privatization takeoff day, the office proposed that Japan Post–the existing postal services public corporation–be transformed into the government’s wholly owned company during the transition period to 2007.

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Postmasters fear Canada Post may be planning more rural post office closures

Posted by | Feb 21, 2005 | |

Canada Post may be planning to close more rural post offices, says a Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association official. Darwin Hoimyr, president of the association’s Saskatchewan branch, said a letter from Canada Post written last summer says supporting small rural post offices is a heavy burden on the corporation’s bottom line. To prevent such closures the association has begun lobbying MPs and civic leaders about the importance of post offices to rural communities.

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Deutsche Post spends tens of millions of euros on free package mailing promotion

Posted by | Feb 20, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG is launching a sales promotion costing a ‘high double-digit million euro’ amount, a spokesman for the company said. The company is to offer its customers the chance to send a parcel for free to mark its 10 year anniversary as a limited company. DHL, the group’s parcel delivery subsidiary, is to provide all 35 million households in Germany with a stamp enabling them to send a parcel weighing up to 20 kilograms free of charge on Feb 25 only. Households will receive the stamps within the next couple of days.

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Business leaders issue warning about UK postal competition

Posted by | Feb 19, 2005 | |

Birmingham’s business leaders are demanding protection for small businesses following the announcement that UK postal services will be privatised earlier than expected.

The industry regulator Postcomm decided to open postal services to full competition from next January, 15 months earlier than planned. Debbie Walsh, head of policy at Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said she believed small to medium-sized enterprises would be the first to suffer.

She said: ‘Around 80 per cent of the daily postbag of 83 million letters and packets is sent by companies and we expect this lucrative end of the market to become the battleground between Royal Mail and private delivery companies.

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DHL Lithuania plans to build new parcel terminal

Posted by | Feb 18, 2005 | |

DHL Lietuva is planning to build a new parcel distribution terminal in Lithuania by the end of 2006, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on Friday. The initial plan is to build a terminal and warehouse complex with an area of 6,000 to 8,000 square meters and later expand it to 10,000 square meters. However, the company has not decided yet if its new terminal will be located in Vilnius or in Kaunas. It currently has one parcel terminal in the capital city.

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