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City Link invest in one of UK’s biggest ever trailer orders

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

City Link has completed one of the UK’s largest ever trailer orders in a GBP 23 million investment programme.

The order for 140 trailers and box trailers has been placed with trailer manufacturer Gray and Adams, supplied through Fraikin and Ryder under contract hire agreements.
The 13.6m trailers have an interior height of 2.06m on the upper deck and 1.9m on the lower deck: 2m-deep powered loading ramps form the lower rear closure with double rear doors forming the upper closure.

An interior two-tonne tail-life is housed within the rear doors.

The deal includes servicing and maintenance as well as tyres and breakdown support. City Link has also recently ordered 45 new Renault and DAF trucks through Fraikin and will repeat the same order in 2008.

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Qatar: Zone revision likely to hit postal work

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

Qatar’s inclusion in Zone 1 of the classification of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), on the basis of the per capita income of its nationals is likely to hit the country’s postal operations in coming years, said a top Q-Post official.

The official said under the present terminal dues system of the UPU, two sub-systems are involved – the target system and transitional system. On account of the classification, Qatar, being a Zone 1 member, needs to pay a hefty amount as service charges for the services rendered by destination country’s domestic services. Qatar’s operations come under the target system.

The official said that as per the system, rates are decided on the basis of a percentage of the charge for a priority letter in the destination country’s domestic service.

– As a result, a considerable amount needs to be paid by countries in Zone 1 to its member countries for the services that they render at the destinations for the mails, he said.
– For instance, while the international postal tariffs from some Zone 1 countries to another member country of the zone may be cheaper, for the local mails, in some countries like the UK, there should be higher postal rates, considering the huge tariffs involved locally in their dispatch said the official.

Asked if this would result in a rise in the local postal tariffs, the official said no hasty decision would be taken on this score.

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China's Postal Industry 2008 Revenue Targets to Hit RMB 106.5 Bln (USD14.8 billion)

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

The 2008 target for China’s postal industry is to generate RMB 106.5 billion (USD14.8 billion) in revenue, said Ma Junsheng, director of the State Post Bureau (SPB) during a national working conference. Detailed policy changes proposed by Ma includes the finalized evaluation system on postal services, the general improvements made to the quality of normal and special services as well as the online express enterprises’ basic industry requirements.

As a key segment of information industry, China’s postal industry experienced a fast and efficient growth in 2007 with revenue rising 16 pct to RMB 93 billion (USD 12 billion), according to data released by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII). The reforms, executed by the government and enterprise separately, have achieved initial progress. It has optimized the industry structure, made government supervision more efficient and further improved the market-dominated competition system.

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Royal Mail make changes to collection plates (UK)

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

Royal Mail is making changes to collection plates as a result of two separate initiatives, namely:

Sunday and bank holiday collections – changes to collection plates

Part of the agreement given by Postcomm to Royal Mail’s request to stop Sunday and Bank Holiday collections was for Royal Mail to amend the information on the collection plates.

Postwatch has been advised by Royal Mail that the removal of all references to Sunday and Bank Holiday collections to its collection plates will be completed by 25 February.

Changing collection plates to show final collections as close to 12.00 midday (Monday – Friday) as possible

In response to Postcomm’s Decision Document on its review of Royal Mail’s collection and delivery times Royal Mail has undertaken a review of collection points that have a collection time before 12:00 midday (Monday – Friday) to move as many back to midday or later where it was reasonably practical and make economic sense to do so. However, there will be some instances where it may not be possible in every instance due to practical and commercial restraints (further details are attached).

Royal Mail has advised us that all reviews are due to be completed by end of February/early March.

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Emirates Business Pages goes online

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

Emirates Business Pages (EBP), the official business-to-business directory of the Emirates Post, has announced the launch of its dedicated website.

Published by Concept Media, the EBP has become one of the most comprehensive resources offering a most accurate database of various businesses and industries across the UAE since its first edition in 2007, said a company official.

The online resource (www.ebp.ae) has been developed by IT2 Media. The German IT solutions leaders were appointed by Concept Media to develop and manage the website owing to their experience and expertise in solutions for directory providers.

In line with its print format the EBP website would ideally present an irresistible business opportunity and thereby promote local and regional trade by providing easy access to important business linkages.

The website offers the entire data of EBP in an easy to navigate and quick to load format. In addition to its patent reverse post box listing, EBP is the only online directory that features online maps, locations, integrated client videos and photo galleries.

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Ghana Post wins international award

Posted by | Feb 14, 2008 | |

Ghana Post Company Limited (GP) has been nominated by the West Africa International Magazine for the most innovative Postal Service Operator in West Africa award for 2007.

A statement in Accra signed by Mr K. A. Otuo-Acheapong, General Manager, Corporate Communications, said a letter copied to GP explained that the Board of Directors of the Magazine conferred the award for “the innovations that management of the company has brought to bear in the postal service operations in the West Africa sub-region, especially Instant Money Transfer Service (IMT)”.

The IMT is a domestic money transfer service where money is sent from one location to the other, through the network of post offices throughout the country.

The Board said the award was also to be presented to nine other West Africa indigenous companies and two personalities from the sub-region for their outstanding achievements.

Mr Kofi Dua Adonteng, Managing Director, Ghana Post, expressed delight about the award and said the initiative of the management to diversify its operations to provide vital and improved customer service had been recognized by an international magazine.

He said as money transfer had become a viable business enterprise, it had become imperative for the company to streamline its operations by improving its ICT facilities in this regard.

The presentation of the award would be on Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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Restructuring of Russia’s postal system will take up to five years

Posted by | Feb 13, 2008 | |

Post in Russia has had a difficult time in recent years, both for users of the antiquated service and for the government underpinning its financial position. It lost USD 186 million in 2007. But this is set to change with the appointment of a new head and a renewed focus on service and infrastructure.

One of the oldest and largest government owned enterprises – Russia Post – is entering a reconstruction phase. Currently it includes almost 90 affiliates with 42,000 outlets, but even these figures don’t help it to make profit.

The latest move to do something about the post was to place former Sberbank CEO Andrey Kazmin in charge. He says the first thing to change will be the financial losses.

“Russia Post will not become a bank in the future. It will have a range of services, but the main service will be delivering post. Financial services will be a part of these. And we do plan to increase the profitability of Russia Post by enlarging the number of financial services and updating the sector,” Kazmin said.

It will be focusing on services such as money transfers and loan payments, and will offer some banking services in regional Russia.

“Currently, Russia Post has a lot of problems. And it will take from three to five years to finish the reconstruction process. However, by the end, with the financial services in place, it can compete with Sberbank in places where there are no banks at all,” said Anatoly Aksakov, the head of Association of Regional Banks.

The restructuring of Russia’s postal system will take up to five years, according to experts.

It’s expected that more concrete proposals for Russia Posts transformation will be unveiled in March.

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IPC’s The Future of Mail by Air is featured at IATA World Cargo Symposium in Rome

Posted by | Feb 13, 2008 | |

If you want to learn more about the IPC initiative on The Future of Mail by Air and how posts and carriers are working together towards paper free transport of mail by air, piece ID level tracking, booking and electronic accounting of mail, the IATA World Cargo Symposium is the place to be.

The World Cargo Symposium will be held March 3-6 in Rome. The ”Airmail Management” event at the next IATA World Cargo Symposium will focus on the challenges for posts and airlines to meet growing customer demands and explore the opportunities to effectively manage the increasing volumes of mail.

Over 800 cargo professionals from around the world participated in the first International Air Transport Association (IATA) World Cargo Symposium, which took place last year in Mexico City. This one-week global mega-conference featured 140 speakers, 28 exhibitors and 12 sponsors in one single gathering.
IPC will take the lead in addressing some misperceptions when it comes to mail.

Mail is perceived by some to be a traditional letter product, difficult to manage and insignificant in terms of volumes. Perceptions are that multi-media and internet alternatives are replacing mail; when in fact, multi-media and internet have become drivers of mail growth. Direct mail advertising is growing and driving the expansion of the packages and parcels market. Even though merchandise is being purchased via the internet, the packages and small parcels purchased are delivered by traditional mail channels, increasing the need for capacity on the airlines.

IPC, as an operator’s association representing 24 of the world’s leading posts and 140 participating posts, wants to attract attention to the expanding business of this mail category and the growing business opportunities mail transport provides to the airlines.

If you are interested in this topic, you may follow the link below to register for the IATA World Cargo Symposium online. Make sure you register for the MAIL TRACK event. You will meet the mail industry leaders and airlines that are working to provide visibility to meet increasing customer demands and working together towards a reliable and sustainable, paper free mail transport by air!

http://iata.com/events/wcs08/index.htm

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