PalletForce is attracting members from its competitors because they seek the financial and decision-making benefits of being a shareholder, according to chief executive Mick Scarlett. Speaking at the first Logistics Link North held at Doncaster Racecourse last week, Scarlett said rivals are also losing members because they are too focused on growth rather than quality of service.
Read MoreWhen a player as significant as Polestar Applied is considering the alternatives to the Royal Mail it is time to sit up and take notice.
Last week, the regulator Postcomm proposed bringing forward the date of all out deregulation of postal services to 2006.
Currently, the Royal Mail still has a pre-eminent position, with exclusive rights to the universal postal system, which means anyone can post a letter from A to B in the UK at a geographically uniform price.
Although in theory operators can provide services in all parts of the letters market except for non-bulk items weighing less than 100g, competition is so far only emerging in bulk delivery, loosely defined as mailings over 4,000 items.
Read MoreThe UAE bid to host the next Universal Postal Union (UPU) yesterday during the 23rd UPU meeting held in Bucharest, Romania. The only other country that contested to play host was Kenya.
The official announcement on the next host country will be made on October 1.
Emirates Post has also offered candidacy for the elections to the Council of Administrators and the Postal Operations Council of the UPU.
The Emirates Post Corporation team led by Mattar Humaid Al Tayer, UAE Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and Acting Minister of Communications, are attending the congress. Also attending is Abdullah Al Daboos, Director General of Emirates Post.
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the German postal service operator, is introducing an Ebay auction service in Berlin effective this Friday, which will be accessible even for those without computers. In the first phase it will be limited to 12 post offices, and, if successful, 50 post offices will be participating by the end of this year. The charge for the service will amount to 11.50 euros plus a 20 per cent commission on the sale. The customer is required simply to bring the objects for sale to the post office and complete a form. Goods will then be conveyed to a logistics centre for expert evaluation before each item is made available on the Internet.
Read MoreContinuing losses at Guernsey Post have prompted Treasury and Resources to react.
The trading company is due to make another substantial loss in the current financial year, following an GBP800,000 deficit in 2003.
Treasury minister Lyndon Trott told the House yesterday that two members of the department would be at all future board meetings to learn more about the problems faced and for the company to fully understand the political concerns.
He also admitted that confidence in the commercialised utility had gone down.
‘I would go even further and say that confidence in the benefits of commercialisation has diminished as a result of Guernsey Post’s past performance,’ he said.
Deutsche Post World Net’s specialist for international mail service Deutsche Post Global Mail und the Mexican post office SePoMex signed a strategic partnership agreement in Mexico City yesterday. Deutsche Post will expand its infrastructure in Latin America with this collaboration and gain a reliable partner for its mail import and export operations with SePoMex. The agreement will also give SePoMex access to Global Mail’s international network.
The agreement covers the operation of a mail sorting center in Mexico City which will be made available specifically for this cooperation. At this mail hub, SePoMex will prepare mail for export and hand it over to Deutsche Post Global Mail for worldwide dispatch. Deutsche Post Global Mail will feed inbound mail from throughout the world into the SePoMex network through this production center where the Mexican post office will sort, transport and then deliver it nationwide.
Read MoreMail, express and logistics company TPG N.V. confirms the repurchase of 20.7 million ordinary shares from the State of The Netherlands at a total consideration of just over EUR 400 million. TPG intends to cancel all of the shares so repurchased. The State has sold 57 million ordinary shares of par value EUR 0.48 each in the share capital of TPG in a share placement. The combined sales by the State represent approximately 16% of TPG’s outstanding share capital, and will reduce the holding of the State in TPG to approximately 19 percent.
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