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DHL teams up with Cincinnati Reds (U,S)

Posted by | Apr 2, 2008 | |

DHL has entered a new multi-year agreement with the Cincinnati Reds to become the team’s Official Express Delivery and Logistics Provider through the 2010 Major League Baseball(R) season.

Under the agreement, DHL will be the exclusive provider of domestic and international shipping services for the Cincinnati Reds. The deal provides for DHL in-stadium signage in the Reds’ and visitor’s bullpens, the DHL “First Ball Delivery” before 40 home games, DHL’s presenting sponsorship of the Reds’ three-game series versus the New York Mets, July 17-20, 2008, and sponsorship of the annual off-season event, Redsfest. Additional benefits include in-stadium hospitality and a discount ticket program for DHL employees and customers.

DHL’s primary air and ground hub in Wilmington, Ohio, is the country’s largest privately owned airport with a workforce of more than 9,000 DHL employees and contractors.

DHL is entering its fourth season as an official sponsor of Major League Baseball, serving as the Official Express Delivery and Logistics Provider of Major League Baseball and MLB.com. The new agreement with the Cincinnati Reds brings the total number of DHL team alliances for the season to seven, which includes sponsorship agreements with the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians.

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GeoPost announces sales of 3.1 billion euros in 2007

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

In 2007, sales of GeoPost, subsidiary of the French La Poste Group and leader in the European BtoB express delivery market, topped the EUR 3-billion mark. Its 2007 sales totalled 3.171 billion euros, an increase of 6.8 pct compared to 2006, on a like-for-like basis and at constant exchange rate.

GeoPost consolidated its position in Europe by acquiring Seur’s Santander franchise, in Spain, and reinforced its partnership with the leading express delivery company in Turkey, Yurtiçi Kargo, by acquiring a 25 pct-stake in the company. In South Africa, a new joint venture with the Laser group has enabled GeoPost to move into the country’s domestic express market.

GeoPost has expanded its international brand DPD into Poland, Benelux, Russia and the Baltic States. Thanks to its subsidiaries, leaders in their respective countries, and to a first rate DPD European transport network, GeoPost is today, in terms of sales, the third leading express parcel service provider in Europe.

Agreements signed with Air France /SoDeXi and Aramex have given GeoPost access to intercontinental routes.

Hence, in terms of volume, 2007 saw GeoPost confirm its position as the second largest express company in Europe – 528 million parcels delivered, in 2007 – for 300,000 customers.

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DHL launches ‘Asia Campaign’

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

DHL launched the ‘Asia Campaign’ on the campaign’s official website to highlight DHL’s leading expertise in trade facilitation between Japan and the rest of Asia Pacific.

The campaign aims to reinforce customer awareness of DHL’s strengths as the No. 1 logistics provider in Japan and the Asia Pacific, as well as its market leadership in the global express and logistics industry based on an international network linking more than 220 countries and territories. Building on the “All the Way” brand initiative launched in 2007, the new campaign communicates DHL’s commitment to harnessing its know-how, capabilities and leverage to go “All the Way” for customers to help them attain their goals.

With the slogan “Asia 11,” the campaign’s official website includes content featuring star players for the Urawa Reds soccer team. DHL has maintained a top partnership agreement with Urawa Reds, one of the top J.League teams and winner of the AFC Champions League (ACL) 2007, since February 2007. The campaign is expected to increase DHL’s brand outreach to not only existing customers, but also a wider group of potential customers. The partnership with Urawa Reds is based on shared core values: DHL’s dedication to serving its customers through speed and teamwork, and the Urawa Reds’ passion to succeed through determination and skill. It was in this same spirit of cooperation that DHL committed its support to the team. Furthermore, red is one of DHL’s corporate colors.

The website provides regional information on 11 key Asian countries while demonstrating clearly and dynamically DHL’s strengths in the three key elements of “speed,” “network” and “quality.” The website campaign begins today and continues through the end of June. In collaboration with the Urawa Reds, wallpaper and screensaver downloads are also being planned, among other projects.

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Satisfaction at Post Denmark with Danish-swedish merger

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

With the publication of the plans for a merger between Post Danmark A/S and Posten AB, a long-felt desire for an international business partner is now one decisive step closer to being fulfilled.
– The European postal market is undergoing a violent process of change in these years of radical EU liberalisation. As a result, the future of small and medium-sized national postal companies will at best be highly uncertain. For Post Danmark, the development means that we will need larger volumes and a much wider range of services for our customers than we are capable of developing based on the Danish home market alone. It is therefore vital for Post Danmark to find an international business partner, and the merger with the Swedes was quite naturally at the top of our wish list, Fritz Schur, Chairman of Post Danmark, says.
In future, Fritz Schur will take up the post of chairman of the merged company.
Post Danmark points out that the main advantages to the Danish company and its cus-tomers are in the field of information logistics, in which Posten AB has a very wide range of services provided by the subsidiary Strålfors, which is already active in several European countries. In addition, being part of the new company Post Danmark will greatly enhance its position within the company’s most significant growth areas – cargo and parcels.
– In the coming years we will see a trend towards further intensification of the current consolidation wave in postal and logistics areas, and with a merger between Post Danmark and Posten Sverige we are well equipped to meet that challenge, Fritz Schur says.
Post Danmark’s CEO Helge Israelsen looks forward to the new opportunities that the merger will generate:
It is my expectation that the merger will benefit our customers. At the same time, I am/we are very satisfied that this will provide us with a stronger foundation for retaining our position as the preferred postal company of all citizens and companies in this country. Post Danmark will still have a large number of tasks to perform for the Danish society, tasks that we take pride in performing. The day’s announcement does not change the rules and requirements we have to meet, and it will still be entirely up to us in Denmark to decide how to organise our postal service in the future. The Danish society differs from the Swedish society in having different challenges and requirements relating to postal services and we will retain our focus on meeting these challenges. A fact that a coming merger will not change. The merger, on the other hand, will give us the strength to continue to develop the company and our services to the Danish society, CEO Helge Israelsen says.

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Royal Mail warned over industrial action

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

Royal Mail is facing the prospect of a second summer of discontent after postal workers rejected its plans to reform its pension fund.

The Communication Workers Union today called for fresh talks on pensions reform after a ballot of 140,000 members voted heavily against Royal Mail’s plans to curb the fund’s GBP 5 bn deficit.

Last year Royal Mail was hit by a series of damaging strikes over pay, modernisation proposals and pensions.

Royal Mail insists its pension’s reform formed part of the settlement; the union maintains that the issue was “de-coupled” from the other issues.

Royal Mail’s reforms, which came into effect this week, mean that the pension scheme was closed to new employees from March 31 though they will be able to join a new scheme next year. The normal retirement age has been increased from 60 to 65 though it will still be possible to take a pension at 60. From the beginning of April, benefits will accrue on a career average, rather than on a final salary basis, but previous earnings will come under the final salary scheme.

Royal Mail said it could not give a figure for the savings from the changes but added that it was contributing GBP 850m a year to the pension fund. It said that equated to 30 pct of pensionable earning and the reforms would bring that total figure down to 21 pct.

The union said 92 pct of the vote has been against the Royal Mail proposals.

Royal Mail managers voted to reject the pension reforms two weeks ago and the CWU said it would be discussing with their union, Unite, a joint approach to industrial action if it became necessary.

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Postcomm publishes final proposals on Royal Mail's compensation schemes

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

Postcomm, the independent regulator for postal services, has announced it is minded to accept Royal Mail’s proposed changes to its retail compensation arrangements for lost, damaged and delayed mail.

The regulator has conducted a public consultation and worked closely with Royal Mail and Postwatch to address concerns about the complexity of Royal Mail’s current compensation schemes for retail customers and some inconsistency in how they are applied.

The key changes to the retail compensation arrangements for loss, damage and delay are:

– if the item was posted with Royal Mail, there will be compensation for loss, damage and delay where an item has no intrinsic value or where a claimant cannot provide proof of posting;
– loss and damage to items with an intrinsic value, with proof of posting with Royal Mail and proof of value, will entitle customers to a postage refund plus compensation for actual loss;
– the GBP 5 and GBP 10 payments for delay and substantial delay will be removed, except for Special Delivery Next Day;
– compensation for delayed retail mail will become payable one day earlier than at present;
– redirected mail will be eligible for compensation for delay; and
– users of the Articles for the Blind service will be able to claim compensation for loss, damage and delay.

Postcomm will decide whether to remove the bulk compensation scheme from regulation when it makes a final decision on Royal Mail’s application for suspension of the scheme and the so-called “C-factor” in 2007-08 due to industrial action arising from its transformation plan.

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Postcomm consults on licence for Peoplepost Limited

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

Postcomm today began a 30-day consultation on the proposed grant of a postal operator’s licence to Peoplepost Limited.

Under the licensing framework that took effect from 1 January 2006, and was amended in January 2008, the licence would:

– allow Peoplepost Limited to provide all types of postal service;
– be issued for a rolling ten year period; and
– require the company to comply with codes of practice on mail integrity (safety and security of the mail) and common operational procedures (designed to ensure the multi-operator market works well in practice).

The closing date for responses is 1 May 2008.

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Sixteen Postal Operators Sign REIMS III Terminal Dues Agreement

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

After two years of negotiations European postal operators have reached a new agreement on terminal dues payments replacing the REIMS II Agreement in force since 1997.

The REIMS III Agreement took effect on 1 January 2008 with sixteen European postal operators committing to it. REIMS stands for Remuneration for the Exchange of International Mails. The sixteen posts that are now part of REIMS III are from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

Additional posts are expected to sign the agreement, which will remain open for signature for all present and former parties of the REIMS II Agreement and the REIMS East Agreement that participated in its negotiation.

REIMS III continues with quality of service standards much more ambitious than the targets under the EU Postal Directive. The individualized penalties in REIMS III for not reaching the J+1 standard and a target of 93 percent will continue to produce quality of service benefits. Transitional rules have been outlined that will continue to raise targets for those parties that have not yet reached 93% J+1.

A second benefit in the REIMS III agreement is that ensures that terminal dues as stipulated in the EU Postal Directive are cost-based, and are based on regulated domestic tariffs in the delivering country.

The parties to REIMS III have the firm commitment to continue to offer Third Party Access in line with the EU Commission’s 2003 Exemption Decision.

With the REIMS East transitional arrangement and the REIMS and REIMS East IDM Agreements incorporated into the REIMS III Agreement, it is expected that more REIMS East parties will sign the REIMS III Agreement during 2008.

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