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ARCEP and French Postal Operators Form Association

Posted by | Mar 2, 2007 | |

All postal service operators on the French market and holders of licences from France’s telecommunications and postal regulator Arcep formed a postal operators’ association, Syndicat des operateurs postaux (SOP), on December 1. This comes in reaction to deregulation plans by the EU authorities. Members of the new association include the French postal service provider La Poste, DHL-Global Mail France (a subsidiary of the German group Deutsche Telekom), Swiss Post International France (the French subsidiary of the Swiss postal service) as well as Adrexo, Althus, IMX Spring and Stamper’s.

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FedEx completes acquisition of Chinese firm

Posted by | Mar 2, 2007 | |

FedEx has completed the purchase of Tianjin Datian W. Group Company’s 50% share of the FedEx-DTW International Priority express joint venture and DTW Group’s domestic express network in China for approximately USD400 million in cash.

“China continues to be one of the fastest growing markets in the express industry and a key to FedEx international growth and profitability,” said Michael L. Ducker, president, FedEx Express International.

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UPS to cancel A380 order

Posted by | Mar 2, 2007 | |

UPS announced its intent to cancel later this year an order for 10 Airbus A380 freighters.

The final cancellation decision will be formally presented to Airbus on the first date specified under an agreement reached last week that gives either party the right to terminate the order.

Last week’s agreement specified a revised delivery schedule that delayed UPS’s first A380 jumbo freighter from 2010 to 2012. UPS originally expected its first freighter in 2009.

UPS had intended to complete an internal study of whether it could wait until 2012 for the aircraft, but now understands Airbus is diverting employees from the A380 freighter program to work on the passenger version of the plane.

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AUSTRIAN POST International Deutschland – 2 translations of press releases

Posted by | Mar 1, 2007 | |

März 2007: Österreichische Post in deutschem Briefmarkt sehr erfolgreich – http://www.austrianpost.de/presseinfos/140307_Jahrespressemitteilung.pdf

revenue of more than 4 million euros in 2006
APID (AUSTRIAN POST International Deutschland) works for more than 100 companies/clients

APID offers an intensive consulting service to support clients in their business in traditional and new markets

For our clients we are not only a specialist for mail to Austria but are as well recognised for our competence in worldwide mail, as the Austrian Post (parent company) is a relatively small but capable company using an international network.

Starting with 3 employees in November 2005, APID is now hiring employee number 10. The target figure for 2007: doubling the revenue

März 2007: Digitales Retourenmanagement senkt Kosten für Mailings. – http://www.austrianpost.de/presseinfos/080307_Retouren.pdf

This press release talks about the service we offer regarding the so called “Retouren”, letters that cannot be delivered, due to an invalid address.
So far, those “Retouren” have been disposed in the country they have been sent to; now the sender can choose between 3 options:

Disposing
Returning to sender
Collecting the addresses; sender receives a file with the collected data

For the sender, this digital information offers a lot of advantages, e.g. saving money, time and internal work.

APID is the first company that offers such a service for international mails.

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Eight New Double Deck Trailers Ordered

Posted by | Mar 1, 2007 | |

APC has ordered a further eight ‘swan neck’ double deck trailers to add to its trunking fleet. This will take the total of double deck trailers up to 25 and will help towards reducing APC’s impact on the environment. The remaining 100 articulated trunking vehicles will all be replaced overtime

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Interview – DHL sees good Middle East growth

Posted by | Mar 1, 2007 | |

DHL Express, the Middle East market leader, is expecting good growth in the booming region in the future thanks to expanded domestic services, higher demand for road transport, and synergies with DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain, regional director Phil Couchman told CEP-Research in an interview.

DHL Express is successfully defending its high regional market share, including of about 43% in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) market, despite more intensive competition, he said at this week’s World Mail & Express Logistics Middle East, Africa & South Asia conference in Dubai.

“We are growing very quickly,” Couchman said. The express operator was growing at about 20% a year in the Middle East region compared to slightly lower market growth rates, he noted. But he pointed out that costs were rising fast, particularly in Dubai, due to higher salaries and local living costs as well as more expensive fuel, meaning that price rises taking cost increases and inflation into account were necessary.

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