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Brazilian Express services market heats up

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

The battle for the express delivery services of international mails in Brazil will heat up over the next months due to the increasingly demand for such service in the country. After an increase of 7% in 2002 the sector predicts 10% growth this year – with an annual income of US$120mil. Sky Postal – authorized by United State Postal Services – entered Brazil in January 2003 and spent six months developing its logistics. It currently has 100 agents and forecasts a 10% stake of the market until late 2004.

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DHL launches new link with top customers

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

Deutsche Post subsidiary DHL has launched Global Customer Solutions, a direct link to its top 100 customers worldwide who account for EUR3.2bn (USD3.7bn), or 13 of annual revenues.

Peter Kruse of DHL Europe said the hi-tech and pharmaceutical industries had expressed their need for ‘a single interface’ with the logistics giant.

The vast majority of customers will still be served at regional and local level by the existing DHL management infrastructure.

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Ceska Posta starting to feel the heat of competition

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

With the liberalization of the postal services market and companies struggling to cut costs by using the Internet more than traditional post, the monopoly era of the domestic mail delivery company Ceska Posta will be over within a few years, Aad Weening, the secretary general of the European Mail Order and Distance Selling Trade Association (EMOTA), told PBJ last week. Already facing serious competition on delivery of parcels and express mail, Ceska Posta now has a monopoly for delivery of light mail, not heavier than 350 grams. But following a decision of the Cabinet in September, the monopoly on light mail will be restricted to letters weighing up to 100 grams as of May 2004. The decision is aimed at liberalizing the Czech postal market in line with European Union requirements.

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A combined force to be reckoned with

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

While individual hauliers seem to struggle harder each year to build their business and earn a respectable margin, those who have banded together into pallet networks have never looked back.
The main UK networks, of which six or seven now claim truly national coverage, have been reporting growth levels of 40% and more. The only thing appearing to hold them back has been the limits to their hub capacity and desire to add ever more members.

Now, the market leaders are looking to differentiate their services and establish a clearer individual identity.

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South African postal services amendment bill for NCOP

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

The Postal Services Amendment Bill will be tabled for discussion in the National Council of Provinces on Wednesday 22 October. The controversial draft legislation effectively gives the SA Post Office a monopoly on handling parcels weighing less than one kilogram, leading to criticism it will put courier companies out of business. However, in a statement on Monday 19 October, the Department of Communications denied this, saying services had to provided irrespective of geographic location.

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Rail freight still in frame for UK mail delivery

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

Royal Mail chairman Alan Leighton has hinted at a continuing role for rail freight in British letter distribution.

Mr Leighton told a committee of MPs Royal Mail was still talking with six ‘operators’ about retaining a rail freight option.

‘We are not playing games,’ he said. ‘We are in these discussions because we may be able to find a solution.’

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U.S. Postal Service to set up health funds retirement benefits

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

The U.S. Postal Service intends to use $10 billion in retirement fund overpayments to set up a health benefit account for its more than 800,000 employees, the Postal Service’s chief financial officer said September 30, 2003.

Richard Strasser said the money would lay the foundation for a health benefit retirement program estimated to cost more than $40 billion.

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Greece's Alpha Bank could bid for post

Posted by | Oct 19, 2003 | |

Alpha Bank, Greece’s second-largest bank, could take part in a tender for a stake in state-held Postal Savings Bank if the price is right, Alpha’s chief executive said in an interview on Sunday. Greece is set to launch an international tender for a 35 to 40% stake in Postal Savings after a principal shareholder in Bank of Attica, which the government hoped to merge with Post, failed to come up with a bid.

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