Express services giant DHL is developing an Express Logistics Centre at the Discovery Cove Industrial Estate near Sydney Airport. The facility, part of a $US30m investment program in Asia, will serve as a strategic warehousing location for customer goods that require fast intra-city deliveries
Read MoreParliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee has unanimously recommended that the Auditor-General undertake a management review of New Zealand Post’s international postal consultancy, Transend.
The committee says that after reviewing Transend’s activities in Europe and South Africa it has a number of concerns and has received wide-ranging evidence suggesting Transend’s management systems need improvement.
The Committee has recommended the Auditor-General undertake an audit of Transend to ensure its policies and procedures are adequate.
THE cost of a basic postage stamp may rise by 5 from next year and the Howard Government has not given up hope of broader postal system reforms.
Australia Post has applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to increase the price of postage for standard letters from 45 to 50 from January 2003.
Australia Post group manager (letters) Gary Lee said the last price increase was 10 years ago and since then, the consumer price index had risen 26 per cent.
New Zealand Post must feel quite at home before Parliament’s finance and expenditure committee. The big State-owned enterprise is being accused of botching one of its overseas contracts — and that is something it is well used to.
For at least a year NZ Post has been kept busy defending its actions in South Africa. In response to a running series of charges that it messed up its operation there and tried to cover its tracks, the State-owned enterprise has had to duck and weave, barely maintaining its position.
Embattled State-owned enterprise New Zealand Post has admitted paying millions of dollars in penalties to the South African Post Office after its overseas venture went sour last year.
The admission came as top NZ Post executives were hauled before Parliament’s finance and expenditure select committee for a third time to answer claims the company misled MPs about the existence of a damning report into its dealings with the South African Post Office (Sapo).
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