TNT has signed an import service agreement with Somal Post, the country’s postal network which means the integrator can access all of Somalia. TNT’s entire Somalia operation will be co-ordinated out of its Middle East, Africa and India hub in Dubai.
Read MoreThe European Commission are set to clear a 70 mln eur aid package offered by the German government to Deutsche Post AG’s express delivery service DHL, industry sources said.
DHL Companies Cologne GmbH will put the 70 mln eur towards the cost of constructing a logistics centre at Halle-Leipzig city airport. The total cost of the project is 253 mln eur.
Read MoreAn historic agreement between package-delivery company DHL and Teamster local unions provides job security and pay protections for more than 6,000 union members who previously worked for Airborne Express in US/Canada.
“This historic agreement protects the security of our hardworking members and the security of their families,” said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President. “This agreement will lead to more solid family-wage jobs in the future.”
Read MoreTNT has appointed Michael Drake as regional general manager for TNT Express in South East Asia.
Drake will be responsible for the company’s business in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia, as well as agent operations in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. These markets contributed nearly one third to TNT’s revenue in Asia last year.
Read MoreOne of the largest state-owned enterprises, Poczta Polska, is looking for new areas of activity and is ready to operate according to European Union rules.
Accelerated liberalisation of the postal market, higher quality standards and transparent methods for settling costs and revenues from monopoly services. These factors are essential, though not decisive, for the postal business. “We primarily take into account the social and technological changes that have revolutionised our business over the past 15 years,” said Dominik Czajewski, director of the strategic management office at Poczta Polska.
Read MoreJapan Post aims to beef up its international business to survive intensifying global competition ahead of its planned privatisation beginning in 2007, according to Masaharu Ikuta, president of the government-owned entity.
“Our international business is small right now. But we are trying to establish the business as an important cornerstone in the future,” Ikuta, the 69-year-old former chairman of shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. said.
Enlargement will mean significant change for the postal sector in the ten countries entering the EU on 1 May. To appraise the challenges involved, and to describe what some posts are already doing to adapt to the changes, La Poste (France), together with La Poste/De Post (Belgium) and PostEurop staged a two-day seminar for high-level representatives from the post offices of the ten accession countries.
Read MorePostal workers union the CWU has attacked Royal Mail plans to dispense with the Newspaper Registration Service. The service is a cut-price method to send newspapers through the post at a reduced rate. It was set up in the mid-1800s to enable publishers to reach readers living in remote areas. By registering their newspapers with the Royal Mail, users get first class deliveries for second class rates. Communication Workers’ Union general secretary Billy Hayes is calling on ministers to intervene to reverse the planned scrapping of the service.
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