Tag: Brazil

TNT extends fleet after one year of Mercurio’s acquisition

Posted by | Jan 14, 2008 | |

The Expresso Mercúrio, acquired one year ago by Dutch group TNT Express, intends to buy more 100 trucks this year to attempt the projected growth of the demand for the road load transport because of the good moment of the Brazilian economy. ‘In 2008 the market goes to grow above two digits. It goes to be a better or at least equal as 2007’, believes the president of the TNT/Mercúrio, Robert Rodrigues, who esteem that the market of express deliveries has grown about 15 pct in 2007.
In 2007 97 trucks and 88 pick up/ delivery vans had been bought and, with the acquisition of this year, Mercúrio will have 1,5 a thousand proper vehicles, approximately, between trucks and vans. The company still uses about two thousand third-party vehicles, depending on the time of the year.
Last year Mercúrio also constructed a new hub in Joinville (SC) and this year intends to raise new ones in Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza and Recife. Rodrigues, however, prefers not to disclose the value of the investment to be made in 2008. ‘But will be at least higher than 5 pct of our liquid invoicing ‘, inform.
According to Rodrigues, last first year Mercurio had as goal the improvement of the management, nomination of the new direction and adjusting the management stile to TNT’s one, as sending systematic reports to the Head Office. From now on, as Rodrigues affirms, all the attention is focused to the business. ‘We will increase the performance to speed up the growth’, says.

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Correos to double export parcel volumes in December (Spain)

Posted by | Dec 13, 2007 | |

Correos is expecting to double its export parcel volumes to 165,000 shipments during the Christmas period in December after a 65 pct increase in November.

The increase in exported parcels is mainly due to a 23 pct rise in parcels shipped by immigrants living in Spain to their homes in Latin America. The destinations with a major increase are Bolivia (+80 pct), Argentina (+38 pct) and Brazil (+30 pct).

In November, the number of import parcels sent to Spain for distribution within the country increased by 25 pct to 180,000 parcels compared to the same period last year. For December, it is assumed that more than 220,000 parcels will be distributed in Spain, coming to a major extent from the EU countries, especially France and Germany.

All types of parcel products are growing, Correos pointed out. Deferred and guaranteed delivery parcels are up by 15 pct while express shipments increased by 11.35 pct.

According to the latest figures from the Kahala Group of international postal operators, which includes Correos, more than half of the express parcels and 75 pct of postal shipments worldwide are handled by Kahala members. In Spain, there was a 45 pct increase in shipments from Asian countries in November compared to the same month last year.

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Postal services: providing local access to international markets

Posted by | Nov 21, 2007 | |

Speaking yesterday at the World Trade Organization’s “Aid for Trade” conference in Geneva, the UPU Director General called attention to postal services’ role in stimulating international trade, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. Edouard Dayan cited as an example the Brazilian Post’s successful “Exporta Fácil” (“Easy Exporting”) project, felt to be among the most innovative international trade initiatives. Using Exporta Fácil, available at over 8,000 post offices as well as on the Internet, small and medium-sized Brazilian businesses let the postal operator take care of their exports, handling the entire logistics side, as well as completing customs export formalities. “Using this service, 6,000 businesses that had never exported before were able to access external markets in 2006,” said Dayan. “This is a concrete indicator of the postal network’s impact on a developing country’s ability to engage in world trade.” With over 660,000 post offices in 191 countries, mostly located in outlying areas, the postal sector is the world’s biggest physical distribution network. By revitalizing the trade infrastructure, it can help small and medium-sized businesses take advantage of the globalization of trade. Dayan added that the postal sector, with its physical, electronic and financial capabilities, wished to develop partnerships to help provide greater openness to international trade. The UPU’s regional approach to development and initiatives such as the integrated postal development plans, developed to gain government commitment to the postal sector, are in line with the orientations felt necessary to help developing countries take advantage of worldwide trade.

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New Electronic Money Transfer between Brazil and Portugal

Posted by | Nov 5, 2007 | |

The Portuguese Post, CTT and the Brazilian Post, ECT have signed an agreement to develop the electronic money transfer between the two countries in order to offer a better response to the needs of the two growing communities of emigrants.

This new service, effective from 2 November 2007 from Portugal to Brazil, allows the electronic remittance up to EUR 2,500 within 48h using the EUROGIRO network, with a high level of security and swiftness as well as competitive prices.

To launch this service in Portugal, an advertising campaign is being carried out designed towards the Brazilian target using unaddressed mail, press and radio.

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Connect Africa Summit: postal networks must be a partner of choice

Posted by | Oct 29, 2007 | |

A UPU paper published for the Connect Africa Summit, which opened today in
Kigali (Rwanda), states that a postal network linked to other providers of infrastructure and network services would contribute to economic development and bring relief to poor and unconnected people.

More than 80 pct of post offices in Sub-Saharan Africa located in small- and medium-sized cities and rural areas, where 80 pct of the population lives. In his paper called Connecting the “unconnected” in Sub-Saharan Africa: postal networks can leverage access to infrastructure services, economist José Anson says that digital connectivity alone is not enough to trigger local, national or global trade. Physical connectivity is also essential in order to seize the opportunities brought by greater access to information through digital communication technologies.

“If digital and physical connectivity is to reduce poverty, then partnerships between networks must be closely examined so that the resources needed to provide infrastructure services in many small and medium-sized cities as well as rural areas are better shared, and the unit costs of delivering these services considerably reduced. Connecting networks such as the post, water, power, telecommunication and other utilities in peripheral regions is very likely to trigger unexpected economic efficiency gains.”
In Brazil, letter carriers read electricity meters, and prepare bills and collect payments on behalf of electricity companies. The Brazilian postal network has also facilitated access to basic financial services by teaming up with a private bank to create subsidiaries in isolated communities without any access to banking services.

The UPU has made Africa a priority. The continent was the first to benefit from a Regional Development Plan, a new tool developed by the UPU International Bureau as part of its efforts to regionalize activities to take advantage of the globalization of exchanges and contribute to the achievement of the UN Millennium Goals for Development.

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