Consumer watchdogs yes-terday urged the government to sack the chairman and chief executive of Consignia, the state-owned postal group, after it announced a 500 per cent increase in first half operating losses to Pounds 100m.
Read MoreNovember 2001- The Spanish Logistics Company Logista has acquired Burgal. The Burgal Group includes a parcel company Pergemon and a pharmaceutical transport company Opelog.
Read MoreNovember 2001 ABX logistics have acquired Wegtransport BV, a Netherlands distributor.
Read MoreOsterreichische Post AG, the Austrian post office, plans a partnership with small foodstores, under which postal services will be offered in the food outlets, while 700 post offices are to be closed.
Read MoreThe mail distributor CityMail Sweden has unveiled a new digital postal service called g-desk. Targeted at both businesses and private persons, g-desk provides an Internet-based letter-box which a subscriber can access through a password-protected web page.
Read Morepresence in Sweden have continued to see growth – UPS reports doubledigit increases in 2001 – the express market as a whole has seen a significant slowdown since the first quarter.
DHL has around 60% of the Swedish express market, and saw growth tumble from 15% in Q1 to zero in July and August and a 2% drop in September.
The Royal Mail could face legal action after failing to make daily deliveries to thousands of homes around the country. Postwatch has sought legal advice because Consignia is failing in its duty as set out in section 58 of the Postal Services Act 2000.
Read MoreAéroports de Paris (ADP) is confident that freighter operators, including FedEx and La Poste, will be able to stay at Paris Charles de Gaulle despite French government plans to curtail night ifights.
Prime minister Leone! Jospin said the government would “hold a wide consultation in order to limit the number of movements at night, particularly of air freight… and to that end, will look at how to organise the movement of cargo operations to Vatry”.
ADP marketing development director Claude Elbaz said none of the operators concerned was interested in moving to Vatry, a cargoonly airport some 130km east of Paris. “It is not realistic to move to a place in the middle of nowhere,” he said.
“If they wanted to be based there, they would have set up their operations there. Integrators need access to passenger networks to transfer cargo for destinations not served by their own fleets.”
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