Belgian Post signs up for Brucargo West
Belgian Post signs up for Brucargo West
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Belgium's postal service could be privatised
La Poste/De Post could be privatised under a new Belgium coalition government according to Finance Minister Didier Reynders in an interview for the L’Echo newspaper.
Belgium currently owns 50.01 per cent of La Poste/De Post, the rest is owned by Post Danmark A/S and CVC Capital partners.
La Poste/De Post is Belgium’s leading service provider in the mail handling business sector. The company’s main activities include letter post, the provision of financial services and e-business.
The change could happen due to the defeat of the Socialist Party in June this year.
Read MoreIrish Postbank opens Dún Laoghaire HQ
An Post today opened the headquarters of its banking business Postbank in Dún Laoghaire with the creation of 50 jobs.
Postbank will sell the financial products of Dutch retail bank Fortis through the national post office network.
The bank employs 180 people across the country and products and services are available in 270 An Post branches.
An Post chief executive Donal Connell said: “Post offices have a proud history of providing services by people whom the public know and trust.” Fortis already has a joint venture deal with Belgian Post in Belgium.
Read MoreEuropean postal operators take stock of Parliament’s improvements
12 European postal operators take stock of the European Parliament’s improvements brought to the proposal for a third postal directive.
The European Parliament has adopted, with a broad majority, amendments bringing significant changes to the initial proposal of the Commission.
Taking into consideration the great uncertainty of universal service financing and the risks of social dumping, the European Parliament has proposed substantial improvements on these two points and asks for the postponement of the date of realisation of the Internal Market in order to cope with them. The repeated reference to the economic role of universal postal services as well as to their contribution to the territorial and social cohesion is to be welcomed. It recalls one of the original objectives of the Community postal policy, thus balancing the liberalisation process.
However, the postal operators from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Slovakia want to stress that the postponement alone does not address the many legal, economic and technical questions which remain as acute as ever.
It is therefore extremely important to deepen the discussions on those points.
As a consequence, the signatories call the Council to follow the cautious approach adopted by the European Parliament and to enrich the directive proposal by addressing the remaining issues in order to properly manage the next liberalisation steps.
Read MoreSwiss Post to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Together with Europe’s largest postal operators, Swiss Post is taking part in the programme launched by the umbrella organization PostEurop to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The goal of this initiative is to cut emissions of CO2, the most important greenhouse gas emitted by the participating organizations, by 10 percent over the next five years. Its involvement in the programme signals Swiss Post’s rigorous continuation of the environmental policy it launched in 1996. Between 2000 and 2005, it cut its CO2 emissions by 9 percent and is therefore already close to achieving the Kyoto Protocol’s targets for 2010.
Swiss Post is taking part in PostEurop’s programme to reduce greenhouse gases.
PostEurop is the association of the 43 European universal-service postal operators. The initiative is based on the voluntary participation of PostEurop members and currently enjoys the support of nine postal operators, including Deutsche Post World Net, La Poste Group (France), TNT (Netherlands), and De Post/La Poste (Belgium), with further postal operators expected to follow suit by the end of the year.
They have undertaken to reduce their CO2 emissions by 10 percent over the next five years. The initiative is thus aimed at the most significant environmental impact of European postal operators: greenhouse gases, which account for around 70 percent of the total impact.
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