Romanian Mail announces e-mail service
The Romanian Mail National Company (CNPR) will launch Friday an e-mail service called e-Post that will be available in its mail collection offices countrywide.
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Fiege looks for mail order orders
Fiege, the German logistics group, is hoping to have built up a nationwide network of private postal delivery companies by 2004. It is currently the second largest postal delivery company in the country, behind Deutsche Post. It is currently in negotiations with Neckermann and various hospitals, in an attempt to increase its network.
Read MoreKühne & Nagel expand through Brazil
19 Feb 2002. Kuehne and Nagel has bought the remaining 50% of the shares in its Brazilian agent Deicmar SA. It bought the original 50% in 1990. The business now 100% owned by K&N will be called Kühne & Nagel Ltd.
Read MoreSouth African Post Office expects to report improved financial results
THE SA Post Office is expected to post significantly improved financial results in the coming weeks, with the estimated R850m loss of 2000-01 likely to be more than halved.
The Post Office’s new management team has focused closely this year on curbing postal crime, improving its delivery performance and reaching breakeven point as soon as possible.
Banner year for DHL after hub move to SAR
DHL Worldwide Express last year saw the strongest volume growth of the four main express carriers operating in Hong Kong.
While general air cargo at Chek Lap Kok airport fell 8 per cent year on year, express volume jumped 9 per cent, aided in part by DHL’s March move of its intra-Asia hub to the SAR from Manila.
Airport sources said DHL easily eclipsed the facility’s overall growth figure, but would not say by how much.
UPS offers fixed import rates, simplifies importing process
United Parcel Service Philippines (UPS) has launched a new service that gives local importers a handle on planning shipping budgets.
UPS, the world’s largest express carrier and package delivery company, goes one step further in easing importers woes by publishing rates for packages imported from abroad.
The service, first available in Hong Kong and Australia in 2000, is also being introduced in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
SA Post Office expects to report improved financial results
The SA Post Office is expected to post significantly improved financial results in the coming weeks, with the estimated R850m loss of 2000-01 likely to be more than halved. The Post Office’s new management team has focused closely this year on curbing postal crime, improving its delivery performance and reaching breakeven point as soon as possible.
Read MoreAustralia Post flourishing in E-environment
In the late 1990s, many IT gurus eagerly consigned Australia Post to the dustbin. A warhorse of the old economy, the government-owned monopoly couldn’t possibly compete with e-mail, electronic fulfilment and private high-tech mailing houses. Or so went the gurus’ mantra.
Within a few years its core business would wither and die; outlets would shut down and the gleaming, paperless world of private electronic delivery would stand supreme.
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