Telecommunications operator Belgacom said on Monday it was creating a joint venture with the Belgian Post Office, through which they will work together on creating products and services for Internet security. The companies will each hold 50 percent of the joint venture, which will be up and running during the second half of this year.
Read MoreDeutscher Paketdienst (DPD), Germany’s second-largest parcel delivery service provider after the country’s former monopoly Deutsche Post, is adding express deliveries to its range of services, in collaboration with US logistics group Federal Express. The collaboration between the two companies will give DPD a foothold in 220 countries, and it hopes also to improve its competitive position compared with that of Deutsche Post.
Read MoreThe Air Courier Conference of America (ACCA) today applauded the fact that the U.S. government has once again highlighted express delivery services as one of the key sectors for which it is seeking liberalizations through the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations. The U.S. today issued its requests for express delivery and other services to the WTO.
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Read MoreAll economic sectors will have access to telecom services when a new post and telecommunications ordinance takes effect in early October of this year. The ordinance stipulates that the state establish its own enterprise called ‘Vietnam Post’ to supply public postal services or mainly exercise its public duty. Meanwhile, businesses of other economic sectors are entitled to take part in postal services as postal service and mail delivery agents.
Read MoreOfficials from Emirates Post and GATS UK, a subsidiary of Swiss Post, discussed yesterday cooperation between the two postal authorities and the shared use of their facilities.
Read MorePostcomm today began consultation on the proposed issue of an interim licence
to Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) Ltd. Deutsche Post is seeking an interim licence to provide a mail service to a small group of new clients and existing clients of the company’s cross-border postal services between customers in different member states of the European Union.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi late Monday accepted a demand from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that two bills governing terms and conditions for establishing a public corporation handling postal services be revised, party sources said.
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