Year: 2003

DHL in bid to double Belgian night flights

Posted by | Dec 11, 2003 | |

Freight and courier service DHL wants to expand its activities at Zaventem airport, with a doubling in the volume of night flights and the creation of 1,000 jobs.

But due to the recent passing of strict night flight limitations by the Belgian government, the Deutche Post-owned company has asked that a choice be made between new jobs and investment in the economy, and noise pollution.

The company is awaiting the government’s go-ahead, stressing that night flights are vital to their survival – but they have no plans to move from their Brussels hub should the government’s decision prove to be negative.

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Hong Kong business awards announced

Posted by | Dec 11, 2003 | |

Winners of Hong Kong Business Awards 2003, co-organized by DHL International (Hong Kong) Limited and South China Morning Post, were announced Thursday.

Four individual winners of the Business Awards include: David Eldon, chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, got the Business Person of the Year 2003 award; David Turnbull, chief executive of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, was named as the winner of the Executive Award; Raymond Tan, executive vice president of Luen Thai International Group Ltd, won the Owner- Operator Award; and Richard Tsang, managing director of the Strategic Financial Relations Limited, won the Young Entrepreneur Award.

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Former managing director makes offer for UK Hays' mail and express arm

Posted by | Dec 11, 2003 | |

The former managing director of Hays’ mail and express arm, Neil Tregarthen is understood to have made an offer for the business of up to £300m.

The DX mail division is the only non-core operation that has not yet been put up for sale in Hays’ restructuring plans, which will transform the group into a specialised recruitment firm.

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Qatar Post to run all postal services electronically

Posted by | Dec 11, 2003 | |

The Qatar Postal Corporation (Q-Post) is speeding up its efforts to run all the postal services electronically. A senior official at the corporation has said that a new training centre would soon be established as part of a plan to develop a new IT system.

The Q-Post Chairman, Ali bin Mohammed Al Ali said the 22 postal services, currently presented to the public, would fully be run electronically after the completion of the networking with an advanced computer control system. The new system, he said, is scheduled to be implemented in early January 2004.

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UPU Promotes Electronic Postmark

Posted by | Dec 11, 2003 | |

The Universal Postal Union has said it is working with leading postal services to promote an electronic postmark that would facilitate electronic transactions and guarantee their security.

Called the Electronic PostMark, the service applies a time-and-date seal to an electronic document, validates digital signatures and stores and archives all data needed to support a potential court challenge.

Currently used by postal services in Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Portugal and the United States, the Electronic PostMark is the digital equivalent of the indicia that appear on every stamped envelope and has legally binding implications in matters of mail tampering.

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Posten Sweden on track to leaner organization

Posted by | Dec 11, 2003 | |

Posten AB, announced yesterday that it has agreed to sell the operations of Swedgiro AB. Swedgiro AB, the wholly owned subsidiary of Posten, Sweden’s national postal service organization, operates in Poland and the Baltic rim countries. The business operations in Poland will be taken over by the company’s management team. The business operations in the Baltic rim countries will be taken over by Finland’s national postal service organization. Swedgiro provides combinations of conventional and electronic mail services. Posten will realize a capital gain on the transaction.

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Postcomm UK restores restrictions to postal licences

Posted by | Dec 11, 2003 | |

Postcomm has reinstated restrictions on the licences of five competitors to Royal Mail. The move follows the resumption of normal services by Royal Mail after industrial action which began in October.

Under normal circumstances, companies competing with Royal Mail can only provide relatively large bulk mail services for business customers. But as a result of industrial action by Royal Mail staff in London and elsewhere, on 31 October Postcomm published a determination removing these restrictions for a period to enable rival companies to provide a wider range of services.

A determination by Postcomm now gives the companies 92 days to revert to their original licence conditions.

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Magyar Post to Lose Monopoly by 2009

Posted by | Dec 10, 2003 | |

Parliament has passed the Postal Services Act, according to which the national postal company Magyar Posta will lose its monopoly by 2009, when the postal market will be fully liberalised. The privatisation of the 100% state-owned Magyar Posta is scheduled for 2005

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