Controversial legislation aimed at regulating the interception and monitoring of electronic and postal communications was approved in the National Assembly on Tuesday [17 September].
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service has introduced SonicAir, a proactive shipment update service for same-day shippers. Customers can now receive updated shipment information, sent to a wireless devices, pager, phone, fax or e-mail address, without having to request it, or access the same information from UPS’s Web site.
Read MoreDHL Worldwide Express plans to open an 18,000-square-meter distribution center near Tokyo in October. The ¥7 billion ($57 million) center, located between Narita Airport and downtown Tokyo, is part of a nearly $100 million investment by DHL in Japan over the past three years, said John Mullen, DHL’s chief operating officer in the Asia-Pacific region.
Read MoreThe volume of express air cargo is growing worldwide at nearly double the pace of regular air cargo, and Hong Kong sees this market as one that it can continue to dominate in the region long into the future.
At present, express shipments represent about 7 per cent of throughput at Chek Lap Kok, but the Airport Authority expects the number to increase to 13 per cent by 2020.
Tariffs for unreserved internal and external postal services will increase starting October 1
Romanian Post Office says that the tariffs for main postal services – simple mail, money orders, international money orders – will remain the same, as well as tariffs for EMS (Express Mail Service), SkyPak, e-Post, foreign parcel delivery and Par Avion.
The Royal Mail has banned the sale of stamps from its own sorting offices and stripped nearly 4,000 post offices across the UK of stamp vending machines.
Customers at most post offices around the country will now have to join lengthy queues if they wish to buy stamps at the counter.
The changes have gone through without any public consultation, leading to criticism of the Royal Mail’s “monopolistic attitude”.
Read MoreSpanish transport and logistics company TNT Espana, a subsidiary of the multinational TNT, has developed a strategic plan for social projects as part of its general business plan. The company, which turned over 228m euros in 2001, believes that such plans serve to build relations between companies and organisations with a similar vision, as well as fostering employee and client loyalty.
Read MoreDHL Worldwide Express, the worlds largest air express courier company with operations in more than 220 countries, has identified India among its three key strategic markets in Asia, the other two being China and Japan. “You would see substantial investment in future, not only brick-and-mortar but also in people. We have never realised the full potential of the Indian market so far,” said DHL Asia Pacific area director Bryan Jamison.
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