Enlight x.hlp solutions for assuring knowledge in large IT rollout projects have been selected by DHL Express Benelux. The Enlight x.hlp solution was used for the rollout of DHL’s new Customer Service system in the Netherlands, and was subsequently acquired for possible use in other DHL countries.
Read MoreDHL International Nigeria Ltd have recently introduced a new delivery service for the transportation of medical samples like blood, semen, urine and other specimens from Nigeria to destinations across the world. The new package called World Medical Express (WMX) – an adaptation of DHL’s Worldwide Parcel Express (WPX) – is ideal for preliminary stages of new drug development as well as animal and human scientific studies. It is already in operation in Kenya and South Africa.
Read MoreTechnology plays a vital part in the smooth workings of all businesses and in an industry where security is paramount, the most up to date technological systems need to be in place, or do they?
Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express, the parcel carrier industry’s most secure conveyer of packages worldwide, has an internal computer system which hasn’t been upgraded for some years and as a result, says Les Roberts, Management Services Manager, “ it is very trustworthy and gives us very few problems.” So much so that the computer disaster recovery plan has never been invoked and computer maintenance is outsourced to a company called Marketing IT, based in Birmingham.
Read MoreThe Post Danmark Group has just released its Interim Report for the First Half of 2004. It shows a considerable improvement of results in the first half of 2004, when profit before tax was DKK 603 million against DKK 417 million in the first half of 2003. Profit after tax was DKK 406 million in the first half of 2004, which is an improvement of DKK 121 million compared with the same period the year before. “This is a satisfactory result, not least because it was achieved by an in-crease in revenue of approx. 5 per cent from the first half of 2003 to the first half of this year. After a minor annual decrease from the year 2000, it is particularly encouraging that in addition to higher revenue, as anti-cipated, from both unaddressed items and parcels, revenue also rose from the letter segment”, says Helge Israelsen, CEO of Post Danmark.
Read MoreThe Ontario Court of Justice, in a decision rendered last week, endorsed Canada Post’s interpretation of section 14 of the Canada Post Corporation Act, which provides that Canada Post has the exclusive privilege of collecting, transmitting and delivering letters in Canada. According to the court decision, Canada Post’s exclusive privilege extends to all Canadian originating letters weighing up to 500 grams whether destined for delivery within Canada or to places outside Canada. This important court decision comes during the course of a lawsuit brought against Key Mail, one of several remailers who have been collecting large quantities of mail in Canada to induct it into the postal system of a foreign postal administration. The court held that Key Mail’s activities in connection with Canadian outbound international letters are a violation of Canada Post’s exclusive privilege.
Read MoreTalks to iron out difficulties between management at An Post and workers represented by the Communications Workers’ Union have resumed at the Labour Relations Court.
An Post is seeking almost 1,800 jobs cuts among its 10,000 workforce and major changes in work practices to save 25m a year.
The firm posted operating losses of 47m for 2003 and current year losses are set to exceed 40m after implementation of non-pay cost-cutting measures. Talks at the LRC were due to finish in May but failed to reach a conclusion, and the two sides have been on a break since the end of July.
A spokesman for An Post said some progress had been made, while stumbling blocks are being put on hold for a decision by the Labour Court towards the end of the negotiations.
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the operator of Germany’s postal service, may not be able to acquire a stake in Austrian postal service operator Osterreichische Post as planned. At present, the Austrian postal service belongs to Osterreichische Industrieholding, a state-owned industrial holding company; the company had originally intended to find a strategic investor by 2006. Deutsche Post was thought to be the most likely candidate, and was expected to acquire a stake of 25.1 per cent.
However, Osterreichische Post now says that it does not believe itself to be under any financial pressure to find a strategic partner, and that it does not expect to have to search for investors before 2007. Deutsche Post says that it will examine the possibility of acquiring shares in rivals of Osterreichische Post if it is unable to purchase a stake in the company.
Read MorePrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed strong dissatisfaction Tuesday over continued opposition within his own Liberal Democratic Party to privatising postal services, saying the privatisation is “a done deal.”
“I want you to stop holding discussions that lag (the actual situation surrounding postal privatisation),” Koizumi said during a meeting of LDP executive members, according to meeting participants.
“If it’s impossible to reach a consensus in the party, I will have to make a decision,” the premier was quoted as saying, expressing determination to finalise a government plan on postal privatization regardless of opposition from within the party.
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