DHL Worldwide plans to build an express cargo center at Guangzhou Airport in southern China in addition to its USD100 million newly opened hub in Hong Kong, the global courier said on Wednesday. “We chose the Pearl River Delta for our hub, and Hong Kong is the best option,” John Mullen, DHL’s chief executive officer for Asia Pacific, told reporters before an opening ceremony for its new facility at Hong Kong’s airport.
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Read MoreIsrael Postal Authority has applied to the Ministry of Communications for permission to enter a range of new activities, now that the Knesset passed in its second and third readings an amendment to the Budget Arrangements Law to open the postal market to competition in 2006. Postal Authority chairman Jacob Edery believes that most of the services will be authorised soon.
Read MoreRoyal Mail is launching a promotion offering consumer publishers a 25% discount in order to help the weekly magazine market boost its marketing activity and sales.
Royal Mail claims that the reduced distribution costs will potentially allow weeklies to increase their marketing activity, using the money saved from the discount programme to increase their overall subscription circulations.
To qualify weekly magazines must have less than 5% of their sales via subscription as recorded in the December 2003 ABC audit figures, and must apply for the offer between August 2 and September 24 2004. The discount will apply for 12 months from the first discounted mailing, or from October 8, whichever date is earlier.
Read MoreQatar’s General Postal Corporation (Q-Post) plans to offer service to banks in which they will print bank statements which will then be mailed directly to bank customers, Ali Mohammad Al Ali, the Q-Post chairman, said.
The corporation plans to take on new services and increase its autonomy so that it can eventually be listed on the Doha Securities Market, he added. In an interview with Q-Post’s in-house magazine’s latest issue, Ali said: ” We now offer electricity bill payment, driving licence renewals and similar schemes and we operate post rooms for some banks. We are shortly to begin bank statement printing. There is a swathe of work available and we aim to proactively capture as much as we can.”
Read MoreDHL Danzas Air and Ocean plans to set up more facilities in Indonesia by the end of the year as increased trade within Southeast Asia continues to grow. “Indonesia is a very interesting market. We would like to take full advantage of the Indonesian market,” DHL Danzas Asia Pacific Chief Executive Peter Lansiedel said.
Lansiedel said the company, a unit of Deutsche Post’s DHL Worldwide, planned to open four new offices and logistics centers for air and ocean freight by the end of this year, but he declined to provide details on the location and estimated investment for the new facilities, DHL Danzas claims to have invested 2.1 million dollars in Indonesia over the past four years.
Read MoreNew Zealand Post is reviewing the future of the country’s postcodes — used to help with the computer-assisted sorting of mail.
It is evaluating “two or three options” for the future of the addressing system and aims to consult widely over the next few months, spokesman Iain Long said.
NZ Post has asked companies involved in the GIS (geographical information systems) business for their views but was reluctant to discuss possible options.
Read MoreUnions fighting the decision of An Post to close its SDS parcel and courier service are to seek the intervention of the National Implementation Body (NIB).
They claim the decision to shut SDS without engaging with unions is a “most serious breach” of the Sustaining Progress partnership agreement.
This deal commits the Government to “active engagement” with the social partners on the future of commercial semi-State companies.
The commitment, initially given last year in a letter from the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), was restated in the national pay deal negotiated in June.
Union leaders say the “unilateral” decision by An Post last week to close the SDS service, with the loss of at least 270 jobs, contravenes this commitment.
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