Zimbabwe Post strike disrupts postal services
The strike by workers at Zimbabwe Post, has disrupted postal services throughout the country.
It has also affected businesses and people who rely on postal services to send mail and bills.
Read MoreYear: 2003
UK courier service will deliver passports
New passports will be delivered by secure courier from February in a effort to reduce the 3,000 which go missing each year, the Home Office said.
The UK Passport Service (UKPS) has signed a contract with Special Mail Services Ltd for the six million deliveries a year.
Some high risk areas – such as inner city postcodes – will require a signature on delivery.
Read MoreWildcat UK Royal Mail strikes 'undermined' postal targets
Progress in the reliability of letter deliveries has been “undermined” by last month’s unofficial strikes that led to a huge backlog of post, the Royal Mail said.
First-class letter reliability reached 92.7% in the three months to September, ahead of the 92.5% target and the best performance for 15 years.
But chief executive Adam Crozier warned that the wildcat strikes had put the year-end targets, taken next March, at risk.
Read MoreNorth Korea promises secure E-mail service
North Korea, an isolated country known for its totalitarian control on information, has begun international e-mail service that “guarantees the privacy of correspondence,” an official news report said.
The new e-mail service is provided by Pyongyang’s International Communications Center, according to its official Korean Central News Agency.
Read MoreA meteoric year of growth at Sinotrans
China’s greatest grower, in economic terms, among transport companies has undoubtedly been Sinotrans.
It has had a meteoric year following a massive initial public offering, a 50% leap in share price, a slimming down of the overweight organisation and the ability to pick and choose, and dump if necessary, its business partners.
Seemingly, every big express operator has at one time or another courted the mainland’s top logistics provider. Unsurprising really, since no one can match Sinotrans for the sheer size of its network.
Read MoreDHL's Kuala Lumpur Gateway gets class
DHL says it has obtained an Asia Category ‘A’ certification from the Technology Asset Protection Association (TAPA) for its Kuala Lumpur International Airport Gateway (KLIA Gateway).
TAPA is a non-profit organisation set up by representatives from the manufacturing and high-tech industries, freight forwarders and professional consulting companies. It was established to guarantee high security standards in the freight transportation of high-value technology products to minimise monetary or asset losses incurred due to theft during the shipment process.
The TAPA certification at DHL’s KLIA Gateway is the 21st successful TAPA certification for DHL worlwide.
Read MoreAir Hong Kong eyes mainland routes
Air Hong Kong, the all-cargo airline owned by Cathay Pacific Airways and DHL, is eyeing express cargo and freighter routes to the mainland.
Air Hong Kong commercial general manager James Tong said: “We are actively looking at the mainland. We are evaluating and studying very closely with DHL and freight forwarders what kind of cargo volumes would be carried.” About 80% of the carrier’s cargo volumes are express shipments from DHL, which owns a 40% stake in Air Hong Kong.
Read MoreFORTEC TALKS WITH APC
Fortec Distribution Network and APC Overnight are in talks about working together, says Fortec director Rob Abrahams. Plans are in the “early stages”, he says.
The news comes as a second APC member company joins Fortec. Millbray Pallets has been formed as a subsidiary of L&C, based in Hainault, Essex to do the Fortec work.
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