Jobs for the girls and boys in Paris
FedEx is to create 280 jobs in France as it develops its European air hub at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) to serve new markets such as Eastern Europe, India and Asia.
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Target formulises Belgian tie-up
Target Express has signed a three-year agreement to use Belgian Post’s global postal network for international deliveries.
The agreement provides a formal structure for a relationship that has evolved over two years of trials.
Posta Uganda, courier firms in row over business
Posta Uganda is locked in wrangles with domestic and international courier firms over what they call infringement on their reserved areas of operation.
The General Manager of Posta Uganda, Mr David Kitongo at the launch of their website recently, said that private courier companies are now offering services like letter posting, a service reserved for Posta Uganda under the Communications Act 1997. He also blamed the industry’s regulator, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) for failing to implement the act. Under the act, Posta Uganda which is the only licensed national postal operator, has exclusive rights to carry out services like production and issuance of postage stamps, production of pre-stamped envelopes, aerogrammes, international reply coupons, rent post office boxes and carry out delivery of letters weighing up to one kilogramme throughout the country. Domestic courier companies are only supposed to carry documents above one kilogramme. Posta Uganda wants UCC to stop the private courier companies from infringing on their reserved areas.
Greek Piraeus Bank sells Interattica stake to GeoPost for 2.7 mln Euro
Greek Piraeus Bank IT subsidiary Evision has completed the sale of its 66 pct stake in courier company Interattica Parcel Service Network for 2.7 mln euro (USD3.15 mln), it was reported on January 20, 2006. The stake was sold to French rival GeoPost, following a preliminary agreement signed in late-2005.
GeoPost plans to acquire a total of 86 pct in Interattica through share purchases from other shareholders as well.
DHL Takes Initiative
DHL is making new efforts to recover express shippers the company lost because of a service debacle in the United States last year. DHL named industry veteran Hans Hickler, its executive vice president of business strategy, to lead what it called a “Customer Experience Initiative” aimed at boosting DHL’s relationships with customers. The company said Hickler, a former CEO of APL Logistics who joined DHL last year, will lead a dedicated executive team that will “evaluate and drive improvements to each customer touch point and all processes that impact the DHL customer experience.” That experience cost DHL some major customers last year when the consolidation of the carrier’s hub operations into the big Wilmington, Ohio, hub led to service failures.
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