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PinPoint to develop new Houston FedEx freight facility

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Developer PinPoint Commercial has been selected to develop and lease a 243-door, 153,853-square-foot, cross dock freight facility in Northwest Houston to FedEx Freight East Inc. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

The terminal will be located at Houston-based PinPoint Commercial’s 115-acre Satsuma Station Industrial Park near the intersection of Highway 290 and FM 1960, where it will occupy more than one-third of the total acreage.

According to PinPoint Commercial, the design for the terminal already has been expanded by about one-third from the original plan because of the estimated growth in freight needs of the Houston area and the need for a presence in Northwest Houston.

It is believed it will be the largest hub in the FedEx Freight network. The project is expected to open by the second quarter of 2008.

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Poste Italiane: Minister Gentiloni establishes new minimum working standards of post offices in summer

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

The Minister for Communications, Paolo Gentiloni, showed the ministerial decree endorsed by him, establishing new minimum working criteria post offices will be obliged to respect in summer.
This decree states criteria avoiding to Poste Italiane to work short time or, even, not to work at all because of the total closure of its post offices. For this current summer they will recourse to provisional criteria.
Poste Italiane ever made recourse to daily or hourly reductions in working timetable either to cope with rotating shifts due to staff holidays or for a reduction in daily work at post offices desks. This produced great worry in people of those municipalities concerned in closure, mayors and prefects of the involved area. So much so that, last summer many mayors of little municipalities ( sometimes with a little post office ), while expressing the disconfort due to these reductions, demanded, as everybody’s concern, more guarantees concerning the execution of tasks.
In consideration of this, the Ministry of Communications, in joined agreement with Poste Italiane, issued a 2007 plan to better guarantee users in defining minimum working standards to vouch for the service mostly in municipalities with 5000 people or less or, at any case, to avoid every modification in timetable under 18 hours a week.
The ministerial decree introduces the summer Opening Plan to be transmitted to the Ministry of Communications within 30 April of every year for the timespan 15 June – 15 September. If the Plan, submitted to the Ministry of Communications exam, is deemed compatible with standards defined in art. 12, it will be forwarded to both CNCU (National Council of Consumers and Users) and ANCI (National Association Italian Municipalities) in order to receive relevant, non binding opinions.

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DHL, PPL open reloading centre in Plzen

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

DHL opened a Kc150 million reloading centre in Plzen, western Bohemia today, Jiri Stojar, DHL Express chief executive for the Czech Republic, told CTK.

“We will create a backbone network of ten main distribution terminals worth almost Kc1 billion in the Czech Republic in three years,” he added.

DHL leased a hall on an area of 21,000 square metres for 15 years in the CTPark Borska pole industrial park together with PPL CZ. Both companies are controlled by Deutsche Post.

The Plzen facility employs more than 100 staff. “We have enough capacity for a growth which reaches 35 percent year-on-year,” said PPL chief executive Jiri Hondl.

DHL covers 46 percent of the express air transport market as the country’s number one and, together with PPL, 26 percent of the parcel service, trailing the Czech Post Office (Ceska posta).

DHL has 285,000 staff in 220 countries and territories of the world. In the Czech Republic, it employs 3,700 staff, while PPL CZ has 480 staff and 600 partners in the country

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Postal workers plan largest union

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Two post office workers’ unions have agreed to merge and form Japan’s largest labor union, with 220,000 members, after Japan Post is privatized on Oct. 1.

The 136,000-strong Japan Postal Workers’ Union voted for the plan at its national convention last Thursday in Naha. The 84,000-strong All Japan Postal Labor Union approved the merger on June 15.

Each of the two unions will finalize the merger at extraordinary meetings and form the Japan Postal Group Union on Oct. 22. The new union will eclipse the All NTT Workers Union of Japan, which is currently the largest, with 180,000 members.

The two postal unions were formerly longtime rivals, but they cooperated on opposing the privatization of Japan Post when the plan was being debated in the Diet in 2005.

After the privatization legislation was enacted that year, the two unions began considering a merger to increase their bargaining power.

While Japan Post is set to break up into four firms and a holding company after privatization, the new Japan Postal Group Union will refrain from dividing itself into company-by-company unions.

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Postal strategy: Universal Postal Union holds its first round table

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

The first Universal Postal Union (UPU) regional strategy round table was held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, within the framework of the “Pochtovaya Troika” strategic forum. This round table, which was organized in cooperation with the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communication (RCC), brought together the 12 RCC member countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. This regional consultation process, the first of its kind in the UPU’s history, was opened by UPU Director General Edouard DAYAN, who said: “The regional reality, in its political and economic dimensions, is here to stay and must be incorporated into our strategy”.

This was the first in a series of seven round tables to be held in each region in conjunction with meetings of the UPU Restricted Unions, a series which will culminate with a world round table in China (People’s Rep.) in December 2007. The purpose of these round tables is to take stock of implementation in the regions of the Bucharest World Postal Strategy (2005–2008), to guide the drawing up of the future UPU strategy, which will be adopted by the 2008 Nairobi Congress, and to ensure that the future strategy has a truly regional dimension.

Before it is adopted by member countries at the 2008 Nairobi Congress, the UPU roadmap for the next four-year period, which will also take account of regional particularities, will be presented at the joint session of the Postal Operations Council and the Council of Administration in February 2008.

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Council takes on Post Office over closures

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Westminster City Council is to lobby the Post Office at a hearing next month on the closure of post offices in its borough.

The council claims that as high streets are forced to fight for their future because of increased competition from out-of-town developments, Post Offices are vital in attracting shoppers and providing community services.

In July, senior bosses at the Post Office will give evidence to a Westminster City Council Overview & Scrutiny Committee hearing that is examining the impact of proposed franchises and closures in the area. The council will seek to protect Post Offices under Policy SS1 of its Unitary Development Plan, which states: “Though all shops are considered important, local convenience shops are considered particularly important.” The council includes Post Offices in its list of local convenience stores.

Councillor Danny Chalkley, Westminster City Council’s Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Transport, said: “At a time when there appears to be a consensus in encouraging small shops and local trade to benefit the environment and help establish a sense of community, we are faced with the heart of many high streets being ripped out through Post Office closures.

A six-week consultation is also due to begin next month on the planned relocation of a Post Office on Poland Street in Soho to the WHSmith store at The Plaza on Oxford Street. This is one of 15 Crown Post Offices across London that are subject to a new franchise agreement with WHSmith.

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