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Is the postal sector an essential component of the global economy?

What better way of answering this question, the theme of today’s 24th Universal Postal Congress General Debate, than to take a look at the Brazilian Post’s Exporta Fácil programme.

This programme, launched in 2001 with the help of the Brazilian Government, has enabled 10,000 micro, small and medium-sized businesses to access international markets. It is now easier for Brazilian small businesses to export their goods to other countries, whether they are selling judo kimonos to Japan, mushrooms to Europe, or dog clothing to the United States.

As Brazilian Post’s Paolo Siciliano explains, the programme has cut down the red tape involved in cross-border trade. The previous 26 stages of the process have been reduced to three. The Ministry of Communication worked with Customs, the central bank and other players to make the administrative procedure more flexible. The ministry responsible for postal services also adapted the existing legislation to improve export conditions.

The programme was so successful it was adopted by the Peruvian Post. The Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (PUASP) is currently working with the Brazilian Post and the Inter-American Development Bank, which has invested 1.5 million USD, on setting up similar programmes in Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay by next year. As Serrana Bassini Casco Secretary General of the PUASP, points out, “This programme is strategically very important for the development of Latin America countries.”

The European Union will also be financing the implementation of a project linked to Exporta Fácil for Mercosud, the economic community for South American countries, says Wagner Moreira dos Santos, Under-Secretary responsible for postal services at the Brazilian Ministry of Communication.

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Express operators step up Latin America investment

Leading international and domestic express companies in Latin America have announced investment plans in recent weeks to build up their networks and add new services. Mexico and Brazil are the focus of investment.

DHL Express will invest about USD 112 million (EUR 72 million) in Mexico over the next five years (2008-2012) in new hubs, gateways, the domestic air network, the ground fleet, IT systems and other measures, DHL Mexico director general Luis Eraña told local newspapers.

Estafeta, one of the leading private operators in Mexico, will invest about USD 30 million (EUR 19.2 million) this year to expand its network, director general José Antonio Armendáriz told local media. The bulk will go on a runway extension at its hub at San Luis Potosí in central Mexico that will enable international flight operations. The operator also plans to add three small cargo planes to supplement its existing five B737Fs, and build new centres in Toluca, Morelia, Leon and Guadalajara.

In Brazil, private express company Rapidao Cometa announced earlier this month it will invest RUSD 32 million (EUR 11.8 million) in a 65,000 sqm new logistics centre in São Paulo to triple handling capacity there. The centre, due to open in the second half of the year, will act as a base for the company, whose businesses is mostly generated in northern Brazil, to expand in the south and south-east of the country. “In terms of business distribution by region, the company’s activities are disproportioned,” commented commercial director Américo Pereira Filho.

Brazilian express operator Mercúrio, owned by TNT Express, already announced at the start of the year that it will buy 100 trucks this year to expand its fleet, and will open new hubs at Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza and Recife this year.

Meanwhile, Brazil Post has played down recent reports it might buy Variglog, the troubled Brazilian cargo airline, in order to build up a domestic air cargo operation instead of relying on commercial capacity. Describing Variglog as an “option”, its president Carlos Henrique Custódio told the newspaper Gazeta Mercantil that Brazil Post is also talking with four smaller airlines about “a new formation” to help its business.

Elsewhere in Latin America, TNT Express has started offering a new air service between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, connecting the two capitals each working day of the week. In Peru, Grupo Scharff, the local FedEx partner company, aims to broaden its portfolio by offering more FedEx products in the second half of this year. The company increased revenues 20% to USD 13 million last year from its FedEx-branded services, according to the El Comercio newspaper.

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