Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Lawson asks Yamato Transport to continue partnership

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

Convenience store chain operator Lawson Inc. said Wednesday it has asked Yamato Transport Co. to continue their partnership even after Lawson begins handling parcels for Japan Post in mid-November. Lawson said it wants to renew a business tie-up contract with Yamato, Japan’s largest door-to-door parcel delivery service company, when the current contract expires Nov. 19. Yamato last month decided to end its alliance with Lawson when the current contract expires because Lawson agreed to handle Japan Post parcels through its nationwide store chain.

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Deutsche Post says no decision to move 1,000 courier jobs to subcontractors

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG has not made a decision to replace 1,000 express couriers in its DHL unit with subcontractors, a spokesman for the company said in response to a pre-released article in Die Zeit weekly magazine. ‘DHL has always worked with subcontractors,’ he said. A formal agreement stating that the majority of courier services must be handled by DHL rather than subcontractors recently expired, he added. Deutsche Post is now in talks with German public services workers union Verdi, he said, and will make no further announcements until these talks have been concluded.

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GeoPost expands into Africa

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

French parcel company GeoPost is to expand into the North African market following a co-operation agreement with Tunisias postal service. The two organisations have reportedly agreed to establish the DPD parcel service in Libya. The government-owned Tunisian Post became the first non-European co-operation partner within the DPD network in March 2004.

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Amtrak posts Pounds 2m profit and plans to consolidate market

Posted by | Aug 31, 2004 | |

Amtrak Express Parcels, the 3i-backed delivery business, has returned to profit and pledged to consolidate the over-crowded parcels delivery market. The comments come amid speculation about the future of Rentokil Initial’s parcels delivery business, although last week Brian McGowan, Rentokil’s new chairman, appeared to rule out the sale of this division. Amtrak, which was the subject of an Pounds 86m buy-in in 1998, and which underwent a financial restructuring two years’ ago, made pre-tax profits of Pounds 1.9m in the year to May 31, compared with a Pounds 5.5m loss a year earlier. Jonathan Smith, who became managing director in August 2002, attributed the return to profit to reduced overheads, including the loss of about 60 jobs during the year, as well as the decision to focus on business-to-consumer rather than business-to-business deliveries.

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Yamato Transport Calls for Downsized Japanese Public Parcel Service

Posted by | Aug 30, 2004 | |

Japan should downsize the public parcel delivery service run by Japan Post, Yamato Transport Co. President Atsushi Yamazaki said Monday. On the planned privatization of the “Yucho” postal savings and other operations, the government should place more priority on the benefits for the whole of the nation instead of on maintaining the jobs of Japan Post’s 270,000 employees, Yamazaki said in an interview with Jiji Press.

Japan no longer needs a public sector role in parcel delivery services, he said, urging the government-owned corporation to at least trim its parcel delivery service.

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