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TNT to embrace more of eastern Europe and serve extra airports

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

A three-year expansion plan will see TNT covering seven more countries in eastern Europe and serving 12 additional airports.
In a rare media briefing in London, Alan Jones, group MD of TNT Express, said: “We want to build on our strengths in Europe and grow in the rest of the world.” The integrator now has 500 depots in 31 countries, deploys its own aircraft at 55 airports and uses commercial lift elsewhere, enabling it to offer service to 208 countries.
Later average departure times from most airports meant good cut-off times for customers, Jones said, and in some cases – he quoted Milan’s Linate airport and Tegel at Berlin – TNT was the only freight carrier in key central locations.

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Profit leap for Nightfreight

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

Overnight freight and parcels courier Nightfreight managed a 32% increase in profit on the back of sales that were only 13.7% higher in 2001.
The figures, achieved in a highly competitive market place, suggest that the company’s management, who led an MBO early last year, were on the right lines with their subsequent restructuring of the business. And independent research has shown that Nightfreight now has the biggest share of the UK mixed parcels and IDW (irregular dimension and weight) market.
CEO Robert Kelly, who led the Barclays-backed MBO, said: “We recognise there is still a long way to go but by freeing ourselves from the shackles of a plc, we have made impressive strides over the past 12 months.

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Europa spreads its wings with express service

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

Europa Worldwide Services has launched a branded express air freight service under the name Euroflyer.
The service complements the company’s existing pan-European trucking network. It provides guaranteed next-day and 48-hour delivery to destinations in 15 countries using DHL aircraft, with onward transport by road through Europa subsidiaries, franchisees and local service partners.

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Palletline launches a new service to Germany

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

Palletline has launched a daily express service to Germany following an alliance with Cologne-based International Logistics Network, which has 90 depots and 12 regional hubs across the country. The two-day service is designed for consignments of one to three pallets.

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Postal Authority rails over 'illegal' mail service

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

The Postal Authority is demanding that the Communications Ministry immediate stop “illegal” mail delivery by a private bulk-mail company and inform the operators that they are breaking the law.
Authority chairman and acting director-general Yossi Shelli told ministry director- general Uri Olnick that the private company, called Meizam Hadoar Hahadash, is delivering bulk mail from Pelephone and Leumi Card without authorization. The law gives the Postal Authority a monopoly in letter delivery; private companies can legally deliver packages.

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Possible Fine Over Mailer Complaint

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

It is reported that Deutsche Post, the German postal service operator, may face heavy fines if it is ruled that a decision by the ministry for economic affairs to prolong the company’s monopoly on letter delivery for two years was unlawful. It is said that in 2000, when the decision was made, officials warned against the ministerial decision which ignored a demand by the postal and telecommunications regulatory body for lower postage charges. The German wholesale and retail association BGA had lodged a complaint against the prices imposed by Deutsche Post for letter delivery, adding that the excessive charges had been imposed with the support of the ministry in view of the income that they brought. The court hearing is due on August 7. The BGA believes that other complaints may follow its own.

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Foreigners Eye Korea's Postal, Delivery Market

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade [S. Korea] said yesterday that the government will kick off bilateral negotiations for the liberalization of the service sector pertinent to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services in Geneva July 22-26. According to the ministry, the government will dispatch a group of some 20 officials and experts from nine related government agencies to Geneva to hold negotiations with other WTO member nations, including the United States, Japan, China and the European Union, a ministry official said. Bilateral negotiation is largely a confirming process in which the involved nations ask for additional information of the countries asking for access to their markets.

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Consignia a ‘chronic failure’, says chief

Posted by | Jul 15, 2002 | |

IN AN astonishing act of corporate honesty, the chairman of Consignia – soon to revert to its old name of Royal Mail – did a “Ratner” yesterday, admitting his company was a “chronic failure”.
Allan Leighton admitted that “you cannot imagine a company which is a monopoly, which has £6 billion of sales and manages to lose £1.2 million a day”.
The part-time chairman, who is on the board of eight other companies, made a scathing attack on the company just days after executives revealed plans to charge businesses £14 a week to have their letters delivered before 9am.
Mr Leighton said he had told them in the strongest terms to “go back to the drawing board”. He added: “Morale in our business is awful. People have to work in terrible conditions, they are not listened to, the levels of harassment, bullying, racial discrimination will be as high as any company in Britain.

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