SAS Air Mail, a division under SAS Cargo, has signed a two-year agreement with Post Danmark for the transport of its global letter mail. The contract involves the airfreighting of 2,000 tonnes of letters a year from Copenhagen to nearly 200 countries.
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Read MoreDHL opened an information technology operations center in the Czech capital on Friday, a spokeswoman said.
The Prague center will serve as the key IT facility for DHL in Europe. The company has similar operations centers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
The Prague center is expected to be in full operation by December and to employ some 800 people by early 2005, said Alison Jocz, a spokeswoman for the company.
DHL planned to invest EUR500 million (USD615 million) in the center over five years, Jocz said.
Read MorePrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday unveiled a set of measures, including a bill to privatise Japan’s postal system to be submitted to the ordinary Diet session next year, as part of his basic policy to further structural reform.
On the diplomatic front, the premier promised to focus more effort on reconstruction aid to postwar Iraq, a resolution of North Korean issues, and concluding a peace treaty between Japan and Russia.
The disclosure of the basic policy comes in line with Koizumi’s appointment of new executives of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the latest Cabinet reshuffle the same day.
Read MoreThe European Commission said it has cleared the acquisition by Deutsche Post World Net AG of a majority stake in Spain’s parcel delivery group Guipuzcoana Euro Express.
Deutsche Post is raising its stake to 51 pct from 49 pct.
The acquisition was examined under the commission’s simplified merger procedure.
Read MorePrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is poised to accelerate planned privatisation of the state-run Japan Post by appointing right-hand man Heizo Takenaka as postal reform minister in Monday’s Cabinet reshuffle.
Postal privatisation is the centerpiece of Koizumi’s structural reforms and Takenaka has taken the lead in drawing up the privatisation scheme.
The roster of Koizumi’s Cabinet reshuffle including the appointment of Takenaka for the portfolio of postal reform minister showed the premier’s unswerving resolve to push ahead with the postal reform.
Koizumi had said he would refrain from selecting anyone who would not cooperate over postal reform, and all members of his new Cabinet expressed support for Koizumi’s privatisation plan for Japan Post at news conferences after being appointed.
Read MoreTPG, the Dutch mail and logistics company, will this morning move to secure a stake in the Danish postal service, in an attempt to kick-start pan-European postal consolidation and thwart the ambitions of at least three rivals.
Jan Haars, TPG chief financial officer, will travel to Copenhagen to meet Post Danmark and government officials in what people close to events said was “a significant” development that could accelerate the sale process of the Danish state’s 25 per cent stake.
The contest has attracted the interest of European operators, said to include La Poste of France, the Royal Mail of the UK, and Germany’s Deutsche Post, which has been regarded by analysts as favourite.
Read MoreItalian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane opened on September 25, 2004 an office in Campobasso, in the region of Molise. The new office will service its clients at two departments. The first one will provide service offered by the post-office bank Bancoposta and the second one will be in charge of the postal services. Campobasso mayor Giuseppe Di Fabio, Poste Italiane director for the southern area of the Apulia, Molise and Basilicata regions Salvatore Malerba and the territorial manager for Molise Giuseppe Di Vece were present at the opening of the office.
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