Exel has won a contract to manage four cross-dock facilities in retailer The Home Depots product distribution network. Exel will provide warehouse management, inventory control, yard management, inbound and reverse logistics, and order fulfilment.
Read MoreWalon UK will manage vhicle transport for Toyota on a 3 year contrct using a dedicated fleet. Walon will prepare and distribute all Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the UK, some 140,000 in 2002.
Read MoreTriumph Motorcycles has awarded Lex Auto Logistics a three-year contract to provide its innovative Electronic Parts Catalogue (EPC).
Paul Checkley, Triumph says, “Lex Auto Logistics were the ideal choice for us when it came to deciding who should provide us with electronic parts cataloguing.
“We needed someone who has first class knowledge of the automotive industry together with IT expertise. We are very pleased with our choice, Lex Auto Logistics has been flexible in working with us to meet our specific needs.”
THE THREAT of a national postal strike may have been one of the most feared industrial disputes in recent months, raising the prospect of sealed postboxes and backlogs of mail, but it has already happened — and no one noticed.
Postal union representatives last week went on strike for all of 15 minutes. The Communication Workers Union held the mini-strike last Tuesday to keep its options open for future action amid pay talks that began last autumn and, despite an apparent settlement a few weeks ago, still drag on.
Canada Post Corp. increases domestic rates today by a weighted average of 3.4 percent for addressed admail, including catalogs and other categories used by direct marketers, and 2 percent for unaddressed admail.
Canada Post increases rates for addressed and unaddressed admail every year at this time. Last year, rates for addressed admail increased 5.2 percent, and unaddressed admail increased 2 percent.
Parcelforce aims to be a smaller but smarter carrier under restructuring plans announced last week by parent group Consignia.
The company, which has not been in the black since its formation in the 1980s and is now losing £180m a year, is shelving 6,700 out of 11,700 jobs. It will close five parcel sorting centres by the end of June, together with 51 of its 101 depots in a bid to save £460m (€736m).
TNT Logistics has set up separate dedicated and multi-user divisions in the Uk to reflect the growing size and importance of its logistics business there. Last year its revenue increases by 30% moving it into the top five logistics companies in the country.
Read MoreMagyar Posta Rt, the state-owned postal monopoly, is stepping up efforts to evolve into a financial services center, leading some executives and analysts to express concern that the government is trying to increase its role in the market.
Magyar Posta’s Chairman and CEO István Kalmár told reporters last week that the firm intends to set up an insurance company, targeting civil servants and public sector employees. That is some 780,700 people, who currently work at institutions whose budgets are funded by the government, according to the Central Statistics Office (KSH).
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