Several companies took advantage of the recent National Postal Forum in Orlando to unveil their new products and services, all designed to fulfill the needs and tempt the budgets of mail centers everywhere. Here, MCMR presents a roundup of some of the new arrivals
Read MoreUSPS may no longer be able to provide delivery 6 days/week to every
location, and is considering eliminating Saturday mail service and closing post
offices; postal service is also new construction, leasing and other projects, and cons
SAS, the Scandinavian airline, on Monday launched a NKr1.13bn ($125m) takeover of struggling rival Braathens, which would effectively create a monopoly in the Norwegian domestic air travel market. SAS has agreed to buy out the airline’s two biggest shareholders – the Braathens family, which holds 38.8 per cent, and Dutch airline KLM, which has a 30 per cent stake.
Read MoreHong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) wants to sell stakes in its CargoSmart Internet portal, and last week announced that it is in discussions with five Asian carriers.
Ken Chih, OOCL’s chief information officer, said: “We’ve just signed a three-year deal with Hewlett Packard (HP) for it to host CargoSmart. We recognised that if a neutral
party didn’t host it, we wouldn’t get other carriers using it.”
OOCL has set a 30 June deadline for the carriers to decide whether they want to take up to a 20% of the portal.
A high-speed rail freight service between Amsterdam to Milan may have finally broken into
the fresh flowers market, after the first shipment last week.
The 14-hour Overnight Express service was set up as a combined passenger/freight pilot project last year for flower shippers and traders, but had struggled to win the confidence of the industry.
United Parcel Service of America Inc. has been a quiet company, steadily increasing its business through new technology but rarely calling attention to its efforts. That stance has masked one of the most technologically advanced IT operations in the Fortune 1000.
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Co-Act project information
The DMA Supports John E. Potter’s Selection As Postmaster General
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