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UPS granted air rights to expand service to Japan

Posted by | Sep 13, 2007 | |

The U.S. Departments of State and Transportation today reached an agreement that will allow UPS and other air carriers to expand air operations to and from Japan.
The agreement provides UPS the authority to operate six daily flights between the U.S. and Nagoya, Japan, in addition to its daily service to Tokyo and Osaka. Nagoya, the fourth largest city in Japan, offers UPS significant opportunities to continue expanding its business in Asia. In addition, UPS will be able to connect these flights to its new air hub in Shanghai, China.
UPS has operated in Japan since 1987 and transitioned to a wholly owned international express delivery operation in 2004. The company’s operations cover 15 metropolitan areas, offering express delivery, customs brokerage and supply chain management services. UPS currently offers 47 weekly flights to and from Tokyo and Osaka.
Japan is one of the more than 40 countries and territories UPS serves in Asia. The company operates air hubs in Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines and will formally open its hub in Shanghai in 2008.

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Papu: Postal union for rural services

Posted by | Sep 13, 2007 | |

PAN African Postal Union (Papu) has urged postal service providers to concentrate on developing more operations in rural areas on the continent where there is little or no availability of advanced communication.

The appeal was made yesterday in Blantyre by Papu’s Assistant Secretary General Rhoda Masaviru during the official opening of the fourth African Support Committee to the organisation of the congress of Universal Postal Union (UPU) to be held in Kenya in 2008.

Masaviru said the success of the congress in Nairobi would depend on the strategies to be adopted on the current challenges that range from revenue, terminal dues to mail dispatch.

In her opening remarks Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati urged all participating countries to ensure that the agenda of the UPU congress reflects training for postal personnel including maximizing access to rural masses.

She added that the current meeting must come up with factual and practical objectives ahead of the meeting in Kenya that should see Africa making progress in the sector for the next four years after 2008.

Over 30 African countries that include Ghana, Nigeria Tanzania, Rwanda, Botswana, Zimbabwe are attending the meeting in Blantyre which is expected to wind up today.

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DHL Malaysia has a win-win relationship with Transmile

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

DHL Express (Malaysia) has not been affected by the financial debacle in Transmile Group Bhd, DHL Malaysia country manager Sam Leong said.

Despite facing internal problems, Transmile had been able to deliver on its commitment to DHL and there had been no change to DHL’s relationship with the cargo carrier, he said.

Transmile provides express air cargo service to DHL, which is also the former’s single biggest customer. Transmile has said that DHL is expected to contribute almost half of Transmile’s revenue from July 2007 to June 2008.

Leong also pointed out that the relationship was good for DHL because Transmile operated out of Subang airport.

He also revealed that he received many calls in the first few weeks when the troubles in Transmile emerged.

Transmile has since put in place a new management team, led by group managing director Wong Yoke Ming, in the aftermath of its financial debacle.

The new management team is currently developing a strategic roadmap to bring the company back to profitability in the next three to five years.

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Royal Mail faces further strikes

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

Postal workers threatened to stage further strikes by the end of the month unless a bitter row over pay and conditions is resolved.

As the Communication Workers Union announced the move and the Royal Mail vowed to press on with its modernization plans, Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary, held out the prospect of coordinated industrial action in the months to come.

Mr. Barber said unions would be brought together under the umbrella of the TUC’s public service liaison committee and said that the government would pay “a heavy price” if it did not pay attention to the warnings. With more than 2m public sector workers in dispute over pay and job threats it is understood the committee will meet shortly.

Royal Mail said that it could “no longer delay the next steps in modernizing the business to enable it to compete on an equal footing with other operators and will now begin to make the changes which have been discussed with our people and our trade unions for many months”. The CWU claims that up to 40,000 jobs could be lost as a result of the proposals.

The union said that there had been “significant progress” in areas such as pay but Royal Mail had refused to budge on its pension proposals which would mean closing the existing scheme to new employees, raising employee contributions and increasing the retirement age.

There was also disagreement over the start time for early shifts which could reduce earnings of some workers by up to Pounds 25 a week. According to the union, Royal Mail was offering a two-year deal worth 6.7 per cent compared with its previous one-year offer worth 2.5 per cent.

Royal Mail said it had offered CWU both a short-term resolution to the dispute within the amount available for pays this year, as well as a longer-term solution “which we believe is in the interests of all our people and the business”.

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