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New pan-European logistics player ec logistics

Specialist in warehousing, fulfilment and distribution, ec logistics has co-founded a logistics alliance providing an integrated solution for pan-European logistics requirements. 3 other founding members – Dohmen Distribution (Germany), SEUR Integracion Logistica (Spain) & SIL STock Express (France)

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Second sell-off complete

Posten is to sell its Postengirot bank to Swedish group Nordbanken, despite being forced to pull out of one prospective sale to another Swedish bank earlier this year when it found itself in trouble with the government’s competition authorities.

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Do recent parcel carrier options deliver?(FedEx, United Parcel Service, Parcel Select)(Statistical Data Included)

After years of being held hostage by United Parcel Service’s virtual monopoly on package delivery, shippers are looking to several relatively new competitors for rescue. But while Federal Express’s FedEx Home Delivery ground service and the U.S. Postal Service’s Parcel Select are options, UPS still retains supremacy.

To be sure, UPS’s stranglehold on the standard parcel delivery catalog market has loosened during the past five years. Credit–or blame–goes primarily to its annual rate increases, which have averaged 4%-5%. Among the mailers participating in CATALOG AGE’s 2001 Benchmark Report on Operations (see the March 15 issue), UPS was the standard-delivery shipper of choice for 50%. But 78% of the respondents to the survey five years earlier had named UPS their primary carrier.

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Integrating physical mail with the digital world : Lockheed Martin unit uses technology to channel information about mail to the right personnel.(Lockheed Martin system integrations distribution technologies business unit.)(Interview)

In the modern world, the easiest and most convenient way to send a message is via e-mail or through sophisticated data networks. Does that portend an end to physical mail, an event that has been predicted for two decades? Not quite.

Despite the quantum leap in technology during the past decade, corporations, universities and government agencies still send, receive and process millions of pieces of traditional, expedited and packaged mail annually. In many mailrooms, manual labor and considerable resources are utilized to process parcels.

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