Chilean authorities said on Saturday
>they would closely monitor Lan Chile (NYSE:LFL – news), the country’s
>largest airline, to ensure it does not abuse its new status as the sole
>domestic carrier. Lan’s only rival in the local passenger market, Peru’s Aero Continente,halted its operations in Chile on Thursday on orders from a Chilean judge who is investigating charges of laundering drug money.
European Union regulators are set to find Deutsche Post World Net, the global mail, express and logistics group, guilty of unlawfully disrupting international mail bound for Germany. The European Commission is expected to issue a ruling, possibly as early as next week, ordering the German company to stop its action. It may also cap its three year investigation by imposing a fine
Read MoreScania, the Swedish truckmaker, on Friday warned that profits would fall sharply this year amid declining European truck sales and economic turmoil in South America. The manufacturer, in which Volkswagen holds a 34 per cent stake, claimed it was the victim of “a global cyclical slowdown” and slowing investment by transport companies.
Read MoreTesco must be applauded for the deal it has struck with US supennarket chain Safeway to export its Internet shopping model. With Safeway adopting the Tesco model of picking goods from stores and abandoning its strategy of using dedicated warehouses for fulfilling online orders, it has signalled that the UK is the recognised world leader in grocery shopping via the Internet.
Read MoreDeutsche Post (Switzerland) AG, a fully owned subsidiary of Europe’s largest postal
service provider DPWN, is a public limited company under Swiss law and specialises in parcel logistics. It was founded in autumn 1991 by the merger of two Swiss parcel logistics operators, quickstep parcel service AG and Qualipac AG.
Under the product name Swisspack, Deutsche Post (Switzerland) Euro Express offers a nationwide, timedefined parcel delivery service for consignments up to 31.5 kg in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The parcels are delivered by a fleet of nearly 400 vehicles via several modern automated hubs (we have such hubs at Pratteln, Regensdorf and Altishofen, for example).
With another of our products, the Europremium service, shipments (import I export) of up to 800 kg per pallet are delivered to and from Switzerland to some twenty European countries.
When we entered this market in 1992, door-to-door pick-up services and a track&trace system for parcels were still completely new ideas. Since then, we have continued to refine our IT systems.
The Public Management Ministry [Japan] is studying ways to allow the planned Postal Public Corporation to own stakes in private firms by, for example, acquiring domestic and foreign trucking firms and buying stocks issued by private businesses, ministry sources said. The plan is part of efforts to set up distribution networks that will complement similar systems operated by postal offices across the country, with the aim of providing more efficient postal services.
Read MoreLebanon’s national LibanPost company has decided to dismiss about 1,000 employees by the end of July, the official NNA news agency reported on Friday
Read MoreALL functions and duties of the Director-General of Post and the
Postal Department will be taken over by the Energy, Communications
and Multimedia Ministry and the Malaysian Communications and
Multimedia Commission. Tabling the Postal Services (Amendment) Bill 2001, Deputy Energy, Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Tan Chai Ho said the
ministry would handle the planning and policy-making functions and
the Commission would be empowered to perform all functions and
duties of the director- general.
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