Keep in Touch – Quarterly Magazine of SingPost – January – March 2007
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Read MoreThe Department of Posts (DoP) and the government-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) will jointly put ATMs in rural areas across the country. In rural areas, post offices will be used as sites for providing towers. BSNL will also use services of postmen for collecting telephone bills in the remote areas.
This is part of an agreement signed on Thursday between BSNL and the DoP. The agreement also envisages that BSNL will use postmen as mobile PCOs. BSNL will provide wireless in local loop (WLL)-based mobile telephones to the postmen. When a postman goes to a village, he can carry a mobile phone with him. There will be a meter attached to it. People can use mobile PCOs and pay the postman.
Read MoreDHL announced today the expansion of its Time Definite Delivery (TDD) service to Vietnam. The new service will commence on 4 January 2007.
A suite of time-definite delivery products, DHL’s TDD portfolio comprises StartDay Express for guaranteed delivery by 9 a.m., and MidDay Express for delivery by noon. With this latest service enhancement, DHL will start providing MidDay Express for Vietnam-bound documents. Customers in Japan will now be able to send documents to Vietnam by noon of the next business day.
With this latest service enhancement, DHL expects increased demand for MidDay Express document delivery services bound for Vietnam from consumer durable manufacturers such as those producing personal computers and home appliances, as well as banks and other financial institutions. Total import and export volumes in Vietnam have grown between 19 and 24 % year-on-year respectively for the first nine months of 2006, and demand for express and logistics services are also increasingly growing with Vietnam’s scheduled World Trade Organization accession in January 2007.
Read MoreDHL announced today the launch of Import MidDay Express – a service to guarantee delivery of imported documents and parcels by noon – in the Nagoya area. The service provided by DHL Express Japan will be available from 4 January 2007.
In the Nagoya area, year-on-year sales in the January-November 2006 period increased 30% for the Import Express service and 110% for Time Definite Delivery (TDD) services. To meet the rising demand for the two services in Nagoya, Import MidDay Express, which began service in Tokyo and Osaka on 1 June 2006, will be launched in Nagoya with an aim to further expand and diversify the services offered in this region. Demand for Import MidDay Express in the Nagoya area is expected from the high-tech, textile and apparel, and automobile industries.
Read MoreIn order to attract private investments in air cargo operations from Reliance, Tatas and Deccan Aviation, the government has set up an inter-ministerial group (IMG).
“The group will identify requirements of different sectors – ranging from those trading in perishable goods to consumer durables – and make suggestions to expedite and improve cargo trade at domestic airports,” an official in the government said.
The civil aviation ministry, which is formulating a new policy to develop domestic airports for international cargo handling, will include suggestions of various ministries in that policy.
The move is significant since a host of private companies such as Reliance and Deccan Aviation as well as Tata group have recently shown interest in starting dedicated air cargo carriers, he said. The group comprises of officials from civil aviation, finance and commerce ministries. Representatives from the cargo industry such as DHL Express and Blue Dart are also part of the IMG.
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