Tibbett & Britten Hungária Kft, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tibbett & Britten Group plc, has been awarded a long-term open-book logistics contract by Csemege-Match of Hungary to provide warehousing and secondary distribution services for its Match and Smatch supermarket chains throughout that country. The contract is initially valued at around £7 million a year for up to six years.
Read MoreSome 96.65 percent of priority mail sent in August reached addressees within the one-day deadline, according to quality control results of Poczta Polska postal administration. The figure is an improvement from 93.79 percent in July. The result is similar to those achieved by European Union postal administrations, and above EU standards.
Read MoreTwenty UK parliamentarians and RFG members visited Cologne, Frankfurt and Ludwigshafen last month to observe rail freight in action, including post and parcel, intermodal and air services, as well as road, rail and river terminals and BASF’s major operations. We also met DB Cargo, infrastructure provider DB Netz and two independent freight train operators, Connex and Rail4Chem.
We were particularly interested to see how rail freight was operating on the continent, the responses of customers, and the extent to which open access, officially starting in March 2003, had already brought competition for traction, and the effect this was having on customer attitudes.
The Federal Court of Justice ruled in favour of Deutsche Post in remailing proceedings agiant TNT Post (TPG) in The Netherlands.
‘The proceedings related to a German credit card company, which had the letters and account statements that were intended for its German customers printed in The Netherlands. The Dutch post then handed the finished letters over to Deutsche Post for delivery, which meant that the cost‑intensive part of the mail dispatch process ‑ conveyance, sorting and delivery ‑ was Deutsche Post’s responsibility.
However, all that the latter received by way of compensation was the terminal dues for incoming international mail, which are lower than the German domestic postage rate.
Read MoreMany companies fear the new rules are going to put smaller companies out of business
OFFICIALS from a range of courier companies, or express parcel companies as they prefer to be known, headed off for Polokwane (formerly Pietersburg) at the weekend to participate in the first roadshow meetings being held on the new postal regulations.
They have a lot to get off their chest. Many are concerned about the effect of the new rules on their businesses and the industry as a whole. “If the regulations are implemented as they stand, it will lead to many small companies going out of business and only the large entities are likely to survive,” says one industry official.
Read MoreThere’s a Deutsche Post brochure touting its PC postage product StampIT that says, “Franking really can be fun!” though how much fun the post is having with the product is debatable.
Deutsche Post officials say they’re planning to do new market research and conduct focus groups early next year on whether StampIT should be continued as an entry fee- based offering or whether the extra charges should be eliminated.
The new thinking seems to be based on the anaemic customer enrollment StampIT has gotten although Deutsche Post claims it’s on the right track.
Read MoreThousands of postal workers are to be balloted on strikes in a row over the “blatant privatisation” of their jobs. The Communication Workers Union says the threat of industrial action is aimed at stopping Consignia selling the cash handling operation to Securicor.
Read MoreA report in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on “Controls on the quality of the postal service” states “In the first 6 months of the year the company has respected the service rates predicted.” Between January 1 and June 30 2002 the results for normal and priority mail were above those requested within the quality criteria within the contract for schedules.
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