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Business Post says UK Mail Q3 revenues up 60 pct (UK)

Posted by | Jan 16, 2008 | |

Parcel carrier Business Post Group PLC said third-quarter revenues in its growing mail business lifted 60 pct over a year earlier as it announced group trading in line with expectations.

Business Post, which is challenging state-owned postal carrier Royal Mail, said its mail operation, UK Mail, won significant contracts with new customers including MBNA and Norwich Union in the period.

“With these new contracts, we now handle some 10 pct of all mail collected in the UK,” the group said in a trading statement.

Business Post said group revenues between Oct 1 and Dec 31 increased 13 pct over a year earlier. Underlying group revenues in the period lifted by 20 pct, excluding revenues from a contract with FedEx terminated in April last year.

Underlying parcels revenues in the period were up 6 pct on last year and the group said it continued to see good growth in its business-to-business parcels operations, which represent around 80 pct of parcels revenues.

In its business-to-consumer operations, which represents 15 pct of the parcels business, its period-on-period performance was consistent with the first half.

Revenues in its specialist services business for the period were in line with last year.
“We have achieved a good revenue performance during the third quarter, trading performance is in line with management expectations and overall the board expects good progress for the year,” the group said in its statement.

Business Post will report preliminary results for the year ended Mar 31, 2008, on May 21.

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DHL Express France to test environmental vehicles

Posted by | Jan 16, 2008 | |

DHL Express France has announced plans to start testing a new highly ecological vehicle in Lyon in cooperation with manufacturer Renault Trucks and the local network of urban communities ‘Grand Lyon’ in order to measure the impact of the truck on the environment.

These tests are part of the European research programme FIDEUS (Freight Intelligent Delivery of Goods in European Urban Spaces) which aims at developing new concepts of transportation in urban areas to minimize the emissions.

The aim of the tests is to validate regulations covering safety, noise reduction and CO2 emissions as well as to check its operating efficiency.

This vehicle will be tested in real-life conditions by a DHL Express driver who will carry out a cycle of tests as part of his usual route when picking up and distributing DHL shipments in the city centre.

The Renault Trucks prototype is equipped with an advanced electronic measurement system and has special equipment allowing it to reduce heavy noise and polluting emissions. It also includes a telematics system informing the driver when he enters an urban area so he can activate the noise and pollution reduction system.

Since 2005, FIDEUS has brought together the players of the automotive industry, transport and logistics sectors and the cities of Hanover, Lyon and Barcelona as well as various authorities. FIDEUS is co-financed by the European Commision’s programme of research and development of sustainable ground transportation.

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Hongkong Post and China Post-Shenzhen Post Bureau launch Hong Kong-Shenzhen Direct Mail Service

Posted by | Jan 16, 2008 | |

Hongkong Post and China Post-Shenzhen Post Bureau today (January 16) jointly launched the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Direct Mail Service.
The service has been introduced in response to market demand for more efficient communication between Hong Kong and Shenzhen as a result of the increasingly prosperous social and economic interaction between the two places. Business enterprises of both regions can use the new service to develop cross-border business opportunities.
The implementation of the Individual Visit Scheme and the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) since 2004 has made the Mainland the biggest tourism market of Hong Kong. According to the statistics of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, there were 14 million Mainland visitors in 2006, within which Shenzhen contributed 47.2 pct, or more than six million visitors. The business as well as consumer demand for leisure, entertainment and shopping has continued growing, bringing tremendous business opportunities to business enterprises of both regions.
To introduce the new service, Hongkong Post and China Post-Shenzhen Post Bureau today jointly held a seminar on “How Direct Mail Can Help Companies Grasp the Cross-border Business Opportunities with Mainland China” at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre followed by the Agreement Signing Ceremony.

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Nokia factory closure could hit DHL jobs (Germany)

Posted by | Jan 16, 2008 | |

Jobs may be lost at DHL due to the closure of a Nokia mobile phone production plant at Bochum in north-west Germany.

The Finnish company announced yesterday it will shut down its Bochum factory due to high operating costs and transfer production to Finland and lower-cost sites in Romania and Hungary. Some 2,300 employees will lose their jobs.

But a further 2,000 jobs at a range of Nokia suppliers and sub-contractors in the region are also in danger, according to German media reports. The locally-based Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported that DHL is considering lying off staff as a result of the factory closure.

“When the Nokia factory closes, then it may be that jobs at DHL disappear as well,” a DHL spokesman cited. Some 200 DHL staff work directly with Nokia, and are responsible for shipping mobile phones to various destinations.

Nokia is an important international customer for DHL Express which handles transportation and delivery of the high-value mobile phones in various markets around the world.

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DHL considers U.S. future

Posted by | Jan 16, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post will likely unveil plans for its problem-plagued DHL business in the United States on March 6, say analysts.

When the German parent company releases its earnings report, losses are expected for the express unit which lags behind UPS and FedEx in the U.S. market.

In December, Bear Stearns called for the German parent company to “back away from U.S. domestic express.” In last month’s report, Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Beh called on Deutsche Post management to “reconsider its strategy to become a global express operation offering international and domestic service in all major markets under an integrated brand and service umbrella.”

This month another investment analyst, Morgan Stanley, also made a rare direct call for a DHL pull out, saying Deutsche Post needed to make the move in order to make its own financial projections.

Deutsche Post and DHL say they remain committed to their U.S. operations.

“The U.S. is an important market in our commitment to offer a truly global service network,” DHL said in a statement. “As the world’s leading Express and Logistics company, the U.S. is strategically important to the Group both as a stand-alone market and as a high-performance extension of our global service platform.”

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