Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Hazchem Network launches Irish service

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

The Hazchem Network is to launch an Irish service in mid-March. MD Jim Scanlan, tells MT that the firm has “selected our partner which will have two depots – one based in Belfast, the other in Dublin”. He declined to reveal the identity of the partner. Scanlan hopes to push the membership of the UK Network up to 40, from its present 38, in the “next couple of weeks”. It has already added 18 members since the turn of the year. Scanlan says that his aim of increasing its input of pallets to 400 pallets a night with 38 members compared to 100 pallets a night with 20 members was “not far away” from being realised. He maintains that the network will not rise above 40 members.

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TNT Express invests EUR 14 million in Duiven International road hub

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

TNT Express has today announced a EUR 14.3 million investment plan to expand capacity and upgrade facilities at its European road hub in Duiven, the Netherlands. The planned expansion – to be completed by October 2005 – follows a significant increase in volumes since the hub first started operating in 1998. It will create around 100 new jobs over the next five years and clearly confirms the company’s commitment to the local area and to the development of its most important international road hub which handles 126,000 consignments and 5,700 tonnes of freight weekly.

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DHL reaches deal with US MobileMail

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

DHL announced March 1 an arrangement with MobileMail, a company that forwards mail to Americans spending a significant amount of time away from home.
MobileMail provides forwarding for customers who frequently travel and need their mail to follow them wherever they go. Truck drivers, actors, musicians and traveling nurses are typical customers. Recipients of MobileMail have their mail addressed to a private P.O. box at the MobileMail facility in Atlanta. When they are ready to receive mail, the MobileMail customer selects the time, date and location for delivery by calling in with a secure passcode. Under the arrangement, MobileMail customers can get their mail at any location served by DHL using its Next Day 10:30 a.m. service in the United States.

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UAE likely to withdraw postal tax

Posted by | Mar 2, 2005 | |

The federal government is considering partial or complete withdrawal of the 10 per cent postal tax collected from private operators, said Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Communications and Chairman of Emirates Post. “We are actively considering the matter. However, it may take some time,” he said on the sidelines of the World Mail, Express and Air Cargo Expo, Middle East and Africa. He said the new federal government will undertake further measures to liberalise the UAE’s transport, communication and logistics sector that will help it to grow further. The Middle East express mail market is worth 8 billion euros (Dh39. 5 billion), officials said. Abdullah Al Daboos, Director-General of Emirates Post, said: “The UAE market accounts for about 35 per cent of the GCC, while Saudi Arabia accounts for 55 per cent. ” That values the Gulf post-al market at about 622 million euros (Dh3. 07 billion).

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UPS vs. Polish Post – new law interpretation

Posted by | Mar 2, 2005 | |

Three years ago the Postal and Telecommunication Regulation Office (URTiP) conducted an inspection of the UPS courier company and found several packages weighing less than 2 kilograms. Since this type of parcel is classified as a letter, the first instance court decided that UPS had broken the terms of its permit (only the Polish Post (PP) can deliver such parcels). UPS appealed, stating that as their services are not available to the general public and only to big contractors, no transgression had taken place. Yesterday, Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the URTiP was wrong. Nonetheless, PP will have a monopoly on several services. Postal services available to the general public have been reinterpreted, as have also terms such as “letter” and “package”. The URTiP has the right to inspect the content of parcels, so it is possible more changes will take place in the interpretations.

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