The Post Department of the Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) has finished drafting its master plan aimed at protecting its business from overseas entrants when the market starts undergoing deregulation in 2005.
Read MorePrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday showed a flexible stance on possible amendments to a set of bills for postal services deregulation. I don’t mind about technical details as long as the private-sector entry will not be barred, Koizumi told reporters after a meeting with Taro Aso, chairman of the Policy Research Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Read MoreThe cost of sending a first-class letter (in the US) will rise on Sunday by 3 cents, to 37 cents, as part of a broad postage increase. A postcard will cost 23 cents to mail, or 2 cents more. The independent Postal Rate Commission approved the changes in domestic postage in March.
Read MoreLeaders of the postal workers’ union have awarded themselves remuneration packages worth hundreds of thousands of pounds each as they prepare for a strike ballot over redundancies at the Post Office.
Read MoreDeutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank and the leading foreign bank in Spain, forecasts that its co-operation with Spain’s postal services operator [Correos y Telégrafos] will generate profits for the first time this year.
Read MoreThe Communication Authority of Thailand bids to clean up its balance sheet as it gears up for privatisation of mail unit. Sending a letter within the country will soon cost a baht more as the postal service gears up to clean up its books and stand on its own feet ahead of privatisation.
Read MoreHow will the logistics market look in ten years? Schenker AG CEO Hâkan Larsson introduced some hypotheses at the Swedish “Logistik Transport” fair in Gothenburg in mid-May by looking back from the future. On the occasion of an opening seminar entitled “Looking back from the future — A ten-year retrospective”, he presented his view of developments in the first decade of the century, almost like looking into a rear-view mirror.
“Road-based transport steadily increased in the years up to 2012. It has been predominant for the past ten years, but it has become more expensive as a means of transportation,” said Hâkan Làrsson. “Politically motivated investments in railroad structure have been insufficient, the competitive edge of rail transport has not improved. A new rail structure is on its way, but European railroads are still not standardised. At the same time short-range sea feeder traffic has increased between Europe’s larger ports.”
Road carries the most tonnes in the German transportation industry. About 80% of goods are transported by road in German. Rail transports 8% of tonnes.
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