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Italy’s Elsag to build mail-sorting center in Moscow Region

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

Russia’s state-owned Russian Post company has signed a contract with Italy’s Elsag to build the first automated mail-sorting center in the Moscow Region, Russian Post’s General Director Igor Syrtsov said Thursday. The construction of the center would be funded by loans, he said. The center would be able to sort up to 3 million items of mail daily and would service the city of Moscow and the Chukotka Autonomous District, as well as the Moscow, Tver, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Ryazan, Tula, Vladimir, and Kaluga Regions.

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Spanish Seur Posts 256.1 Mln Euro Turnover H1 2004

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

Spanish express mail courier Seur Internacional Express S.A posted a turnover of 256.1mln euro ($316.5 mln) for the first half of 2004, an 8.1 pct year-on-year increase, the company said on October 14, 2004.

The increase was mainly due to the 23 pct year-on-year rise in international shipments between January and June 2004 after the alliance with French parcels company Geopost, a unit of French state-owned postal service Le Poste. In July 2004, Geopost acquired 12.5 pct of Seur from the Spanish company’s founder Justo Yufera.

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Nightfreight’s IDW bosses quit

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

Ownership change leads to new strategy and departure of divisional management team from IDW network. Firm is set to start Polish drivers on multi-drop work.

Nightfreight, which had a secondary management buy-out in July, announced the unexpected departure of senior executives at its IDW Network, which handles freight of irregular dimension and weight. Gone are managing director Paul Watson and group operations director Ian Lancaster. In a statement, the firm said: “Paul and Ian have been with the company for many years and made significant contributions to developing the business. Nightfreight has a new focus and is being reshaped to take it forward to the next stage of its development plans, and they have decided that the company’s longer-term strategy does not fit in with their personal plans for the future.” Nightfreight chief executive Rob Kelly, who will serve as IDW managing director in addition to his current role, declined to elaborate on the statement.

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Sales by Baltic Logistic System Vilnius surge by 21% in 9 months

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

Baltic Logistic System Vilnius, the leading Lithuania’s logistic company, reported sales of 12.5 million litas (EUR 3.6 mln) for the first nine months of 2004, a surge of 21 percent from the January-to-September period of previous year. The company, which provides parcel delivery services under the trade name of Bizpak, boosted its parcel shipments by 47 percent, to 822,000 units. The performance figures for the first three quarters led to expectations that the annual rise in parcel deliveries might reach up to 50 percent, said Gintaras Bingelis, Baltic Logistic System Vilnius sales and marketing director. “A steady growth in parcel deliveries evidence that well-developed Lithuania’s small parcel market still has room to grow,” Bingelis told BNS.

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American Airlines Cargo and DHL Express leverage strengths in cooperative program

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

American Airlines Cargo and DHL Express have agreed to increase cooperation to pursue additional opportunities in the marketplace. The new program will leverage the strengths of both companies to better serve customers in the freight and logistics industry worldwide. Highlights include the introduction of interline agreements that allow American to use DHL Express freighters to reach Eastern Europe, Africa and parts of the world not directly served by American Airlines. American also is joining DHL Express Air Carrier Management Program, further extending the traditional business relationship the companies have had over the past two decades in markets worldwide. “We’re excited about the opportunity to work with DHL Express and other members of the Deutsche Post World Net at a new level,” said Dave Brooks, President of American Airlines Cargo. “Our participation in the Air Carrier Management Program offered by DHL Express will allow us to provide added value to our customers in the shipping community by maximizing the strengths both companies bring to the industry.”

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Deutsche Post to spin off post offices

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post has confirmed that it intends to spin off its post offices into a separate subsidiary from 1 January 2005. The resulting entity will consist of 13 divisions and will be managed by four board members. The group argues that the reorganization will result in leaner management structures and speedier decision-making processes. Meanwhile, Deutsche Post is planning to close 1,000 of its 13,000 post offices across Germany by the end of 2005. German law obliges the group to operate at least 12,000 post offices across the country. At present, Deutsche Post operates 6,000 fully-controlled post offices, while the remaining 7,000 ones are operated by partners.

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