Year: 2007

transPARK enters into partnership with Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN)

Posted by | Jan 9, 2007 | |

Dubai Industrial City’s proximity to Jebel Ali Port – the world’s third largest re-export hub – and Dubai Central – the largest airport in the world – will allow transPARK to deliver a flexible range of multi-model supply chain services from DHL, Danzas and Exel, including freight, warehousing, distribution, consulting and express delivery, to manufacturers located within Dubai Industrial City and the region.
David Christmas, representing DPWN, said, ‘This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside transPARK, and offer our full range of services to support what is a huge industrial project. Dubai Industrial City is a member of Tatweer, which is a group that has a wide portfolio of projects in the healthcare, energy and entertainment sectors. We are extremely pleased to be associated with the Group.’
As one of the largest logistics providers in the region, transPARK will help companies reduce costs by lowering their inventory levels and warehousing requirements whilst, at the same time, enhancing sales revenues through improved service levels.

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Business Post delivers key deal

Posted by | Jan 9, 2007 | |

Business Post shares gained more than 4pc yesterday after the mail and parcel delivery group won the first postal services contract the Government has put out to tender.

The shares closed 18 higher at 439p following the pounds 12m deal with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Guy Buswell, chief executive, said: “We expect other departments to follow suit.”

The DWP’s decision will come as a blow to Royal Mail as private sector competitors make further inroads into its market. Business Post is its largest rival with more than 4pc of the market, delivering over 100m items a month.

Including the 14 other licence holders, Royal Mail has lost 10pc of its business since the process of deregulation began almost three years ago. A recent National Audit Office report estimated that the Government could save pounds 31m annually from more efficient postal services.

UK Mail, Business Post’s mail division, started delivering letters in May 2004. It now has revenues of pounds 40.4m – about 15pc of group turnover – and profits of pounds 3.2m.

DWP will be UK Mail’s largest contract by revenue. By volume, the biggest is NatWest owner Royal Bank of Scotland – the largest mailer in the country.

Business Post competes with Royal Mail on price and service. It does not offer an overnight delivery but guarantees a two-day service cheaper than second class.

It also picks up mail as late as 8pm and tracks all packages. It does not offer end-to-end delivery, but pays Royal Mail about 13p an item as the “access price” for final mile delivery by postmen.

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Bosnia Serb Republic Letter Deliveries Up 22 Pct in Jan-Nov 2006

Posted by | Jan 9, 2007 | |

The number of delivered letters in Bosnia’s Serb Republic amounted to 16.62 million from January to November 2006, a rise of 22 pct year-on-year, data released by the Serb Republic’s Statistics Office showed.

In the first eleven months of 2005 the number of delivered letters in the country was slightly over 13.62 million.

The number of parcel deliveries marked a growth of 24.4 pct to 136,120 from 109,463, while the number of delivered telegrams dropped by 32.4 pct to 45,633 from 67,538.

The postal services company of Bosnia’s Serb Republic, Preduzece Za Postanski Saobracaj Republike Srpske (Srpske Poste), recorded a total 1.739 million letter post deliveries in November 2006, up from 1.336 million a year earlier.

The number of delivered parcels decreased to 12,154 in November 2006 from 13,772 in November 2005, while the number of delivered telegrams slumped to 3,091 from 6,725.

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TNT expects to earn Euro 1bn abroad

Posted by | Jan 9, 2007 | |

TNT Post expects a turnover of Euro 1bn from its European networks (eight countries outside the Netherlands) this year, according to the Financieele Dagblad. This is double the figure booked in 2005.

The company forecasts 2006 turnover from foreign activities to reach Euro 750m. The British and German markets are particularly important, said TNT.

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Postal services priority for German EU presidency

Posted by | Jan 9, 2007 | |

The German presidency presented its six-month plan in which its says: The first (economic) priority will be to take steps to strengthen Europe on the global stage within the framework of the new Internal Market Strategy, in consultation with the Commission.

This requires us to foster innovative potential and push forward market opening in growth industries. Specifically, the Presidency aims to move closer to fully liberalizing the European market for postal services and revising the legal framework for telecommunications, as well as to establish an efficient and competitive information society (i2010).

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Royal Mail accused of misleading over price rises

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

Royal Mail has been accused of misleading the UK public over the scale of its price prices, according to one rival.

Hamilton House Mailings claims that while the Royal Mail’s price rises have been presented by the company as being a simple just above inflation price adjustment, analysis it has done show that the rises are in fact much steeper.

Hamilton House analysed the outcome for a series of typical mailings to 5,000 addresses with a standard 50/50 direct/residue split.

At low weights, it said it found increases in the 3% to 4% range. However, with packet mail the price increases it said were typically between 6% and 7%. When it looked at the heavier packages it found price decreases with the mailing of 5,000 1.4kg packets, resulting in a price decrease of 24%.

Tony Attwood, chairman of Hamilton House, said: “Once again creative teams and mailing teams are going to have to get together to work out the best approach for their customers — and the answers from April are going to be very different from the answers that exist today.

“It really is a great shame that the structure was not sorted out once and for all last August, so that we all knew where we were going.”

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BotswanaPost in negotiations

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

BotswanaPost is negotiating with government to allow it to borrow funds from the open market to augment home grown funds available for its transformation initiative.

Alternatively, the government shall be lobbied for equity injection, says the corporations 2005-06 annual report.

The report states that BotswanaPost is committed to delivering cost-effective, reliable and efficient services to its customers.

Its primary responsibility is to provide a universal postal services to all residents of Botswana.

BotswanaPost has a postal network of 114 post offices and 78 postal agencies countrywide divided into three regions namely Central, North, and South.

The report says the 78 postal agencies are run by village development committees with the assistance of BotswanaPost.

It says Botswana Couriers, a wholly owned subsidiary of BotswanaPost, provides courier delivery services throughout the country.

Services of the BotswanaPost include postal services, business solutions, money transfer services, courier services, stamp collecting and agency services on behalf of the private sector, government and parastatals.

On business mail service, the report says, in an effort to assist the expediting of mail processes from the source, business customers are now offered the use of Remote Meter Setting (RMS) services, an improvement on the traditional franking machine.

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Parcelforce introduces carbon neutral delivery scheme

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

Royal Mail’s Parcelforce Worldwide business has started an initiative to give its customers the option of offsetting the carbon footprint emitted in the delivery of their parcels.

Parcelforce has calculated the cost of the average amount of carbon emitted per parcel as 10p for UK deliveries and 20p for international deliveries.

Customers booking online have the option to donate half that amount, with Parcelforce contibuting the other half. The money will be invested in a programme run by woodland protection charity The Woodland Trust.

Parcelforce is also working with a number of its account customers who want to achieve carbon-neutral status for their deliveries.

Vanessa Leeson, Parcelforce managing director, said the move is a first in the UK express parcels market, and part of a wider approach by the company to carbon management.

She said: “Our business uses renewable energy in our buildings, bio-diesel in our vehicle fleet and proactively seeks to increase energy efficiency where practical.

“While we’d never force carbon offset onto our customers, many of them are telling us that they will choose the commitment.”

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