Year: 2003

HongKong Post & TrustAsia to leverage E-Certs

Posted by | Jun 18, 2003 | |

Hongkong Post has teamed with Singapore-based digital trust and payment services provider TrustAsia to develop electronic payment applications and services that leverage the post’s e-Cert digital certificates.

Targeting its e-payment services at different market segments, the partnership seeks to ride the upcoming project of embedding the post’s e-Certs onto the new Hong Kong Smart ID cards. The launch of the free one-year e-Cert option is part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Smart ID Card Replacement Exercise, scheduled to begin in August.

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Plea to stop junk mail by Scottish MP

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

Mail bosses are to be asked to stop delivering junk mail by a Glasgow MSP. Tory Bill Aitken said today so many advertising fliers – and unsolicited letters – were being pushed through letterboxes they were fast becoming a “very real nuisance”. He warned they created a security problem when left sticking out of doors because they indicated the householders could be on holiday. Mr Aitken has written to Royal Mail chiefs asking them to reconsider whether they should accept contracts to deliver junk mail. He also urged advertisers to think again about whether the junk mail approach to selling was worthwhile. A Royal Mail spokeswoman said they had a legal obligation to carry mail and pointed out direct mail brought in money and helped keep Post Office workers in jobs.

She said anyone who didn’t want to get direct mail should contact the Mailing Preference Service, which will filter out mailshots which are of no interest.

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Keep UK Royal Mail on rail call in Commons

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

The Royal Mail’s decision to transfer its freight from rail to road was condemned on all sides today with a Commons call to “keep the mail on the rail”.

Labour’s Alan Simpson (Nottingham S) led the question time attack, warning the public viewed the move as “catastrophically irresponsible”.

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Deutsche Post and Deutsche Bahn expand co-operation

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

In future more parcel and express items will be sent by rail. Both companies are expecting to reactivate the route from Cologne, Germay, to Berlin at the beginning of the coming year. Other routes are being planned. The toll for lorries due to come into effect on 1 September and the increasing number of items are the basis for this co-operation decision. In doing so the Parcel InterCity network, currently covering the routes Hamburg/Hanover to Munich/Nuremberg, will be considerably extended. The destinations will be connected during the night with each other by trains, which, at up to 160 km/h, travel faster than any lorry.

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US airlines bill seeks curb on foreign owners

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

Congress is considering legislation that would reinforce restrictions on foreign ownership of US airlines, in an attempt to ensure business for US carriers.

The Senate spending bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) includes language that would specify that US carriers should be controlled by US citizens.

The move comes as DHL Airways, part-owned by Deutsche Post, tries to convince the Department of Transportation (DOT) that it is not “effectively” foreign-owned. “If the present arrangement is allowed to stand, the Department of Transportation will set a precedent that allows foreign governments to compete with US companies for business which, by statute, is reserved to US carriers,” said Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican who sponsored the language in the Senate bill.

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DOT begins review of DHL Airways

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

One month after Deutsche Post World Net announced plans to acquire the ground operations of Seattle-based Airborne Express Inc., shoe and apparel maker Nike Inc. informed United Parcel Service it was switching to the German delivery giant to move its European shipments.

According to UPS officials, Nike said it changed logistics companies because Deutsche Post offered rates 10 percent below those of UPS.

The loss of the $8-million account for standard, express and return logistics service adds fodder to the battle between global logistics integrators UPS, FedEx and Deutsche Post for global market share and access. And it reinforced the belief held by the U.S. integrators that Deutsche Post’s low package rates are being subsidized by its postal business and other state aid.

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Loud protests of US Express duopoly have familiar ring to them

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

The uproar in the United States about who is pulling the strings behind DHL Airways and Deutsche Post’s proposed purchase of Airborne Express has a familiar timbre to it.

As is often the case, politics, especially the politics of profit making, makes for strange bedfellows. Arch-rivals Federal Express (FedEx) and United Parcel Service (UPS), whose names are dirty words in the oppositions’ Memphis and Atlanta headquarters, have banded together to block what they see as a sinister incursion into their USD30 billion domestic air cargo market by the subsidiaries of the German postal giant.

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TNT Express opens multi modal transport corridor in Poland

Posted by | Jun 17, 2003 | |

TNT Express launched a road connection with Berlin, which will allow it to shorten the time of parcel delivery by 24 hours and to offer the so called Next Day service to the clients in most European countries. Currently TNT Express has 15 offices in Poland. The company has also four distribution centres in the country in Warsaw, Katowice, Poznan and Gdansk.

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