Tag: Deutsche Post

DHL launches new link with top customers

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

Deutsche Post subsidiary DHL has launched Global Customer Solutions, a direct link to its top 100 customers worldwide who account for EUR3.2bn (USD3.7bn), or 13 of annual revenues.

Peter Kruse of DHL Europe said the hi-tech and pharmaceutical industries had expressed their need for ‘a single interface’ with the logistics giant.

The vast majority of customers will still be served at regional and local level by the existing DHL management infrastructure.

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German Deutsche Post will have to reveal its cost structure

Posted by | Oct 17, 2003 | |

The Supreme Administrative Court in Germany has ruled that Deutsche Post, the German postal service, must disclose its cost structure in future. According to the court’s decision, it must be possible to check fees for the company’s services which have been set by the regulatory authority in court. The German association for international express and courier services hopes that this decision will help to open up the market for postal services.

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Deutsche Post urges privatization to ease US expansion

Posted by | Oct 15, 2003 | |

Deutsche Post, the global mail, express and logistics group, has urged the German government to speed its privatization to ease regulatory problems facing its U.S. parcel delivery operations. The sale of further shares in Deutsche Post, which is still 62% government-owned after an initial public offering in 1999, “would help us qualitatively, particularly in the U.S., ” chief financial officer Edgar Ernst told the Financial Times of London.

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Deutsche Post wants government to speed up privatisation

Posted by | Oct 14, 2003 | |

Deutsche Post has called on the German government to speed up the privatisation of the postal operator, arguing it would improve its ability to do business, particularly in the US.

Deutsche Post is currently embroiled in a bitter legal battle with its US competitors FedEx and United Parcel Service, who argue that Deutsche Post’s Miami-based carrier Astar Air Cargo violates US laws forbidding foreign control of domestic airlines. They also stress that Deutsche Post’s state ownership further strengthens their case.

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