Post Danmark to be Privatized
The government will convert Post Danmark into a limited company, which will pave the way for a privatisation of the Danish postal services, DR-TV News reported, citing prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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South African Post Office faces dispute over hike
THE SA Post Office was locked in an urgent industry meeting last night to thrash out differences over a proposed 12% to 15% increase in postal tariffs which has outraged a host of big and small mail users.
The SA Post Office is the third state-owned organisation, after Telkom and Eskom, to apply for an above-inflation tariff hike for this year, placing further pressure on SA’s inflation targets.
German Finance Ministry Defends Postal Service Tax Break
Deutsche Post AG looked likely Friday to emerge financially unscathed from a political dispute over a sales tax exemption for the partially privatized mail group.The lower house of parliament’s auditing committee will reject suggestions that an extension of the 16% sales tax exemption to areas where Deutsche Post doesn’t have a guaranteed monopoly was illegal.
Read MoreInsufficient competition to generate better post services
From Michael MacClancy
Sir, Your coverage of the National Audit Office report on Postcomm and postal services (“Watchdog warns on Post Office competition”, January 24) was wide of the mark. There is nothing new in identifying a risk that the universal postal service might suffer if Consignia were subject to competition and this was not the most important conclusion to be drawn from the NAO’s report.
Read MoreRising Star scoops up Carrifreight business
28/01/2002 Star Cargo has acquired the business of Hertfordshire-based Carrifreight for an undisclosed sum.
Read MoreBusiness Letters May Get Priority
Householders might have to wait until the afternoon to get letters under plans being considered by Consignia to save money. Consignia is weighing the idea of giving priority to businesses over residential customers.
Read MoreLittlewoods awards logistics contract to TDG
Littlewoods has awarded TDG a £15 million-pound fulfilment contract, servicing the retailer’s new channels to market. Littlewoods required a storage and picking facility for customer orders from catalogue and television shopping channels that was accessible to its main distribution hub at Shaw, Lancashire. The contract utilises 200,000 sq ft of space at TDG’s 450,000 sq ft muIti-contract facility in Wrexham.
Read MoreMaersk links with Emirates
Maersk Logistics has signed a “global mutual support“ agreement with Emirates SkyCargo. The move is part of plans by Maersk Logistics (ML) to expand its air freight forwarding services and reputation which it sees as crucial to its position as an integrated global logistics provider.
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