Warehouse and distribution specialist Railstore have become one of the first members of the Palletline delivery network to gain enhanced remote transit shed status for its site near Brentwood.
Read MoreExel PLC, the logistics group, said it has won a four-year contract valued at 16 mln stg from Alcampo, the Spanish subsidiary of the French retailer Auchan.
Alcampo owns 41 hypermarkets across Spain and a chain of over 100 supermarkets
Read MoreGreece’s Post Savings Bank (TT) and the Post Office (ELTA) signed a cooperation agreement on Monday to join their networks and distribute each other’s products.
Read Morethe [Argentine] Government has reduced the costs of the
postal operator Correo Argentino by Pesos $10mil annually by including it in
the Competitiveness Plan (for tax exemptions)
Express mail market, the capacity of whichin Russia is about $100 million a year ismostly controlled by internationalcompanies: 51% belongs to DHL, 19% – toTNT, 10% – to UPS, 7% – to FedEx and 13% -to EMS “Garantpost”.
Read MoreDeputy Jaroslav Volf (the Slovak Social-Democratic Party) is already preparing a revision to the law on postal services, although parliament passed the law only at its last session. “The revision should exclude express services from the category of the universal postal service and shorten the period of Slovenska Posta’s (Slovak Post Office) monopoly in delivery of consignment up to 1 kg until the end of 2002,” informed Volf.
Read MorePostal charges will rise in April as planned – the first increase in six years.
Postmaster-General Luk Ping-chuen said yesterday there was no reason to further postpone the rise despite growing calls for cuts in public service fees and charges amid the economic downturn. Postage was originally set to be raised last month.
Deutsche Post (G.DPW) intends to postpone acquisitions plans in the U.S., Europe, and Asia as a result of increased risks caused by the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., Chief Executive Klaus Zumwinkel tells Tagespiegel.
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