New Wigan depot for Target
Target Worldwide Express has just opened a 5,000sq m depot in Wigan, which serves local needs and has taken over the North-west “mini-hub” operation previosly based in Manchester.
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Nightspeeds triple win
Tipton-based Nightspeed has secured £500,000 worth of orders following a hat-trick of account wins in recent months.
Read MoreTDG strives to do better
TDG gave its half-year report at the end of last month in which the financials failed to excite but progress in revitalising the group was enough to keep shareholders on-side.
David Garman, who joined the industry when he became chief executive in 1999 and launched a new strategy at the start of 2000, is finding out just how tough this industry can be.
Garman set out to turn TDG from a UK asset-based storage and distribution company into one targeted at European contract logistics and the management of extended supply chains, combining top level strategic consultancy with contracting. The main target sectors are consumer goods and chemicals.
Norwegians set to liberalise postal services earlier than the EU
Norway could open the market for full competition for all postal service earlier than the European Union demands, according to the Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority. The EU has planned a gradually freer market between 2003 and 2009 but the Norwegian authority has made a proposal to liberalise the services faster than that.
Read More3,000 UK urban post offices facing axe
A THIRD of Britain’s urban post offices face being shut down, it was revealed yesterday.
Royal Mail chiefs want to axe 3,000 branches to save money -including 54 in Birmingham, 34 in Leeds, 28 in Liverpool, 24 in Manchester and 23 in Newcastle.
Sixty per cent of towns and cities will lose at least five POs.
The main branches and sub offices are casualties of the debt-ridden Royal Mail’s efforts to protect rural offices.
The cuts from a total of 17,500 POs follow losses of Pounds 100million and the closure of 547 branches last year.
A Pounds 200million Government compensation fund will help axed offices.
Indian GPO takes over suburban post offices
As a part of the postal services extension scheme, post offices in the suburbs of Kolkata are being brought under the jurisdiction of the General Post Office (GPO) service. In the first phase, a number of post offices in North and South 24-Parganas have been allotted Kolkata pin codes.
According to sources in GPO, there were 99 post office areas in the city served by the head post office. Under the new plan, southern suburbs like Narendrapur (Kolkata-103) and Joka (Kolkata-104) have started receiving the service of Town Delivery .
The postal department is hopeful that the new move will inject a fresh lease of life to the most defunct postal services. In the new plan, the services to the added areas will be faster and hassle-free.
Liberian postal services resumed
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has announced the resumption of mail delivery into the country. The resumption follows negotiation with international airlines, mainly the Ghana Airways.
Making the disclosure at a press briefing recently, Mr. Paul P. Jarvan, Director of Public Affairs at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, announced the arrival of a new batch of mails from Ghana, but did not clarify whether mails are the leaving the country.
Mr. Jarvan noted that the Ministry is working out the necessary modalities to dispatch a technical delegation to Ghana to further concretize arrangements with postal authorities in that country to facilitate the deliveries of mails which had been stranded in that country.
NZ Post (Transend) Malta Venture Approved
The joint venture of New Zealand Post subsidiary Transend and Maltapost was discussed during talks between Malta’s Edward Fenech-Adami and Helen Clark in Wellington. After the meeting, Dr Fenech-Adami said Maltapost was looking for a strategic partner to expand beyond the shores of the Mediterranean island. We think New Zealand Post does offer us the necessary expertise to be able to do that.’ New Zealand Post paid $6.5 million for 35 per cent of Maltapost in February. The remaining 65 per cent is owned by the Maltese government.
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