Road haulage dominates the Netherlands logistics market. This sector is very vibrant and accounts for 36% of the transport market in the Netherlands. Due to its international trade links, the Netherlands also has strong freight forwarding and sea freight sectors. However, rail plays an insignificant role (1%) in the country’s freight industry, despite government initiatives.
Read MoreThe TNT Express Brasil (subsidiary of TNT Post Group) specialized in express delivery services and the Brazilian company Mira Transportes, focused in cargo transportation signed a partnership contract that can represent a turnover of U$5mil per year.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service’s Teamster employees will get substantial pay increases, and the carrier will add 10,000 new union jobs, according to the terms of a tentative contract agreement.
Read MoreMartin Vial, Chairman of La Poste Group, and Lennart Grabe, President and CEO of Swedish postal operator, Posten AB, today cemented the strategic agreement signed in the fall of 2001 for the joint development of parcel operations in the Nordic, East European and Baltic markets.
The agreements finalized to date underline the postal operators’ shared determination to further strengthen parcel activities through win-win partnerships in promising markets with high growth potential ; partnerships that may also be extended to other operators.
July 2002 – An Post acquired remaining 49 per cent in Precision Marketing Information (PMI), A company which was established in 1995 in a joint venture between An Post and Equifax to produce direct mailing lists.
Read MoreConsignia has angered customers by quietly introducing increases of up to 20% in some charges and giving its outgoing chief executive a 30% rise in his annual pension entitlement.
This is a difficult time for the company, which has come under fire for trying to introduce a £14 a week levy on early daily mail deliveries while moving ahead with plans to drop the second delivery.
Consignia justified the moves last night by saying tariff increases on pre-paid envelopes were needed to cover the extra costs of the stationery.
“We have had no increases in seven years and the new tariffs reflect the true cost to us.
DESPITE the proliferation of e-mail and other means of communication, global postal mail is estimated to grow at 2.5 per cent annually during the 10-year period ending 2005, up from a growth of 0.9 per cent per annum recorded during 1985-95, according to Mr S.B. Bhattacharya, Member, Department of Posts.
Speaking at a seminar on ‘Business mail: A challenge and opportunity for post’ here under the aegis of the Mail Users Association, Mr Bhattacharya quoted a study undertaken by Universal Postal Union (UPU) and said that, by 2005, there would be a significant growth in business-to-household mail even as the volume of household-to-household mail was expected to drop.
Read MoreTPG NV announced its unit Cendris UK won a three-year contract with Deutsche Telekom AG unit T-Mobile UK with a total value of 10 mln stg.
Cendris will take over digital printing and associated fulfilment responsibility for T-Mobile’s telephone billing and other essential customer communications.
Cendris will undertake T-Mobile’s telephone billing to customers, which includes the issuing of telephone accounts and payment reminder letters.
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