The financial results for the last year for Poczta Polska (PP), the state monopolist on the postal services market, were six times better than expected. Thanks to staff reductions, the company recorded a ZL92m profit compared to the planned ZL15m.
Read MoreAlthough no indication has yet been given of how many redundancies La Poste, the French national postal services group, intends to carry out as part of its development plan for the period until 2007, its employees are worried that swingeing cuts are on their way. According to management estimates, 4,700 jobs were cut at the group last year, and nearly 5,000 will go in 2004.
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the German postal service, has been accused by competitors of abusing its dominant position on the market. PIN, the company’s largest competitor in the field of the licensed delivery of letters in Germany, says that it uses Deutsche Post to deliver letters that are to be sent to addresses outside the area in which it operates. According to PIN, some of these letters are delivered only after a delay of several weeks. At present, only 4 per cent of letters delivered in Germany are delivered by private mail companies.
Read MoreA key economic policy-setting panel have basically agreed that Japan Post should be privatised in five to 10 years starting in 2007, economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka said.
The proposed timeframe is stipulated in a draft interim report on ways to privatise the entity, which was presented by Takenaka during the day’s meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy.
Read MoreA key government panel plans to propose the allocation of an independent accounting system for each postal-related service–mail delivery, postal savings and kanpo life insurance services–to come into effect after the services are privatised, according to the panel’s draft interim report on postal privatisation.
Read MoreIn the late 1990s, the Italian post office found itself in a situation that many of its European counterparts knew all too well: The Internet and private couriers had transformed many postal activities into fully contestable markets. To make matters worse, the quality of Italian postal services was poor, public confidence in mail had suffered, and operating losses were nothing unusual.
If the post office was to remain an important part of Italy’s — and Europe’s — economic and communications landscape, a radical transformation clearly would be needed. Cost-cutting alone wouldn’t be enough. The quality, scope and cost-efficiency of mailing services had to improve.
Read MoreTrinidad & Tobago has received a USD11.45 million loan from the World Bank towards the cost of the Postal Services Reform Project. Party of the proceeds will pay for the Supply, Delivery and Maintenance of Vehicles. Deadline: May 11, 2004.
Read MoreMartin Jones
Department for transport
‘How the government see the regulatory background the freight industry will face over the next few years’
Mark Watts MEP
Labour MEP for South East
‘European policy on freight transport’
Ruth Pott
Road haulage Association
‘The impact of the working time directive on road haulage’
Lord Tony Berkeley
The Rail Freight Group
‘The competitiveness and potential of rail freight’
Tony Hagon
Advenza Freight
‘A new approach to rail freight’
Ian Hetherington
Skills for logistics
‘Policies to encourage people into the industry’
Nick Gallop
Intermodality LLP
‘Freight quality partnerships: are they working?’
Colin Beaumont
British international freight association
‘The supply chain and security’
John Bagley
Network Strategy Highways Agency
‘How to give freight an advantage on the road network’
Chris Douglas
TransportEnergy Best Practice
‘Improving the energy efficiency of freight transport’
Professor Mike Browne
University of Westminster
‘Chairman’s closing remarks’
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