GeoPost has teamed up with Austrian forwarder Lagermax to extend the DPD parcel network to Croatia. Lagermax owns 70% and GeoPost 30% of new joint venture DPD Croatia. The company will offer a nationwide service through Lagermax depots in Zagreb, Split, Osijek and Rijeka.
Read MoreDHL’s logistics division has been awarded a four-year contract with Hewlett Packard Korea. The contract covers HP’s entire product range in Korea, including PCs and related equipment. According to DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, the contract is particularly significant since it sees the implementation of the next-generation HP MUJU online logistics platform. The new one-stop platform enables paperless, online sharing of information between HP and their logistics supplier.
Read MoreDHL Express projects operations in Chile will rise 20% this year, well above the worldwide company average of 13 reports Marketing Manager Ricardo Norambuena.
The new growth is a result of Chile’s decision to adhere to its free trade treaty with the U.S., and DHL developed new services and products supported by the agreement. DHL also has broadened services to include purchase orders for exporters.
Read MoreFedEx has said it is broadening tests of a low-cost parcel service using U.S. mail carriers for home deliveries. The test, announced Jan. 23, comes as the Memphis-based company looks to expand its ground business.
Rival United Parcel Service earlier introduced a lower-cost service for large commercial customers shipping to rural and other thinly populated destinations.
Read MoreShigefumi Matsuzawa, governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, co-authored a book with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi several years ago that proposed ways to privatize the postal system, which includes massive savings and insurance operations as well as mail delivery.
The book was published in 1999, when Matsuzawa was a Democratic Party of Japan member of the lower house, and the nation had not yet pinned its hopes on a self-styled maverick politician.
Read MoreDeutsche Post has reduced its stake in German IT and web services provider GFT Technologies AG from 12 percent to under 5 percent and sold its shares institutional investors. GFT is one of Deutsche Post’s key technology suppliers providing the post’s Stampit Internet postage offering. It is also supplying the Royal Mail’s new SmartStamp product.
Read MoreSingapore’s dominant postal services group, Singapore Post Ltd (SPOS.SI), said on Monday third-quarter profit was down 4.9 percent against the same period a year ago, which had been boosted by an asset sale. SingPost, a 31 percent-owned unit of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (TELE.SI) , said net profit was SD27.6 million (D16.24 million) for the three months ended December 31, against SD29 million a year earlier.
Read MoreJapan Post President Masaharu Ikuta said on Jan. 21 that the regional post office network cannot be maintained if the postal savings and postal life insurance operations are eliminated.
The comments, made during a news conference, came in response to attacks by the Japanese Bankers Association and others who say the government-backed postal entity must reduce or terminate such services.
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