Scotlands geography has traditionally made it a difficult place for the transport business to service. Palletways hopes to change all that after opening a new hub in Edinburgh, managed by Ron McSorley, which co-ordinates movements for the five Scottish members of the pallet network.
Read Moretables showing market share, liberalisation thresholds, items delivered, price of letters, employees and post office networks.
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Deutsche Post, the German postal service operator, is unwilling to reduce postage charges as a means of avoiding a possible repayment of 572m euros to the German state.
Read MoreJapan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday confirmed that it is aiming to pass four postal services deregulation bills through the House of Representatives next week. The LDP is assuming that reform-minded Prime Minister and LDP President Junichiro Koizumi will finish negotiating with the bills’ opponents within the LDP, who are backed by the state-run mail and postal insurance businesses, by July 3, LDP officials said.
Read MorePostal workers’ leaders were today expected to give the go-ahead for a national ballot on industrial action in a row over jobs.
Delegates at the annual conference of the Communication Workers Union in Blackpool were set to approve a timetable for a ballot of the union’s 180,000 members in postal group Consignia.
The union fears that the pay, conditions and pensions of thousands of engineers and cleaners will be hit by plans to set up a new joint venture company.
This year TNT Argentina doubled its turnover of the same period in 2001. The company registered an US$8mil turnover in 2001. TNT also managed to double the number of accounts.
Read MoreThe transport industry has raised a ruckus over the toll exemption for postal service vehicles delivering mail to a small island on the Tokyo Bay Aqualine highway, irked that the preferential treatment puts trucking companies at a disadvantage.
Several deliveries a day are made to shops and restaurants as well a mailbox on Umi-hotaru, a small artificial island that serves as a rest area connecting the highway’s bridge section from Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture to its underwater tunnel section to Kawasaki. Vehicles carrying postal items to the island, however, are exempt under a special regulation from the toll.
With a set of bills to allow private companies to participate in the mail-delivery business becoming a focal point of Diet debate, the issue of whether postal services will continue to enjoy such preferential treatment for postal services even after the establishment of a public corporation is expected to draw attention.
Read MoreAbdullah Ibrahim Al Daboos, Emirates Post’s Director General, has revealed a set of recommendations and resolutions adopted by the Arab Ministers of Communications during the Arab Cabinet Ministers’ meeting recently held in Casablanca.
The new resolutions and recommendations are meant to develop mutual cooperation with respect to the postal services.
A top UAE national delegation headed by Ahmed Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of Communica-tions, visited Morocco last week.
Al Daboos said the cabinet ministers agreed on reducing Express Mail (EMS) transactions fees of Arab Postal Corporations. To help Arab corporations compete in the market, the charge of each dispatch is now set at Dh12.92 instead of Dh18.45 previously in place.
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