Year: 2005

TNT adds NA President

Posted by | Dec 14, 2005 | |

TNT Express, looking to raise its profile in the United States and Canada, created the new position of president for North America and named Matthew McDonough to the post. The new structure separates North American and South American regional duties that had been overseen entirely by Curtis Watson, president of the Americas for TNT Express. The shift comes as Netherlands-based TNT is preparing to sell its separate logistics unit in a move to focus more closely on its mail and express divisions, which are strong in Europe but lag far behind the large express operators in the United States.

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UPS to make case v. Canada Post

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

Nearly five years after launching its dispute, US-based United Parcel Service Inc. will finally get to air its complaint this week that Canada Post is unfairly trying to use its postal monopoly to keep the courier rival at bay.
UPS will make its case before a North American Free Trade Agreement panel that Canada Post and Ottawa’s Canada Border Services Agency have discriminated against the Canadian subsidiary of UPS to give Canada Post an edge in the lucrative courier business. UPS launched the complaint under the controversial “investor rights” Chapter 11 of NAFTA, a part of the trade pact that attempts to protect the interest of foreign companies operating in Canada,
Mexico and the United States. UPS is seeking up to dollars 185-million in
damages.

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French post office invests EUR147m and selects Bull and Lockheed Martin

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

The Board of Directors of La Poste has authorized the Mail Directorate to award Bull, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, the contract to deliver the information system that will run its future mail sorting machines.

Through this EUR 147 million contract, La Poste will deploy an information system backed-up with the latest technologies over the 800 machines of the platforms covering the whole country. This deployment is part of the “Cap Qualite Courrier” programme.

Bull’s turnkey solution, developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin, involves providing a unique new automatic address interpretation and computer based mail sorting system. This system is based on optical reading (up to 50,000 letters per hour) of all of the information written on an envelope: address of recipient, information relative to sender, bar-code, date and stamp amount, etc. The first operational phase will begin during the course of 2007.

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Bull, Lockheed Martin win 147 mln eur order from French post office

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

France’s post office, La Poste, said it has signed a 147 mln eur contract with French IT services group Bull and with Lockheed Martin Corp for the companies to supply an IT system for its postal sorting machinery.

The contract, running from 2007 to 2010, will run in parallel with the construction of 13 new postal sorting platforms, Gabriel Hentzen, chief executive of La poste’s mail operations, told Agence France-Presse.

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Japan: postal privatisation

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

From April, the big “four” providers of international express and delivery services will face a formidable new upstart in the Japanese market: Japan Post.
But the question is whether Japan Post can compete head-to-head against the established express mail and logistics providers. FedEx, DHL and UPS all enjoy global economies of scale that they have built up over decades. Though Japan Post has unparalleled domestic mail delivery operations, the move will mark its first foray into the international express delivery market. Until now, the “big four” providers – United Parcel Service (UPS), Federal Express (FedEx), DHL of Germany and TNT of the Netherlands – have dominated the Japanese market, with an estimated 70 per cent market share. Minoru Hasegawa, the manager of Japan Post’s business development division, says it is essential for the entity to expand its services as part of its privatisation process.

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SingTel trims postal stake

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. trimmed its 30.85% stake in Singapore Post Ltd. and said it plans to sell the remaining shares, valued at about SD568 million, or USD338 million. Southeast Asia’s largest telephone company by market capitalization said it had sold 95 million shares in the city-state’s postal company for net proceeds of SD105 million, paring its stake to 25.87%. “The sale is in line with SingTel’s ongoing strategy of divesting noncore business in order to focus on its core telecommunications business,” the company said.

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UK Royal Mail appoints Wholesale Director

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

Royal Mail today announced the appointment of Stephen Agar, currently the Group’s Regulatory Affairs Director, as Director of its Wholesale arm, which deals with letters which are collected and sorted by Royal Mail’s competitors before being handed to Royal Mail for final mile delivery. Mr Agar will report to Ian Griffiths, the Managing Director of Royal Mail Letters, who joins the company early in 2006.

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