Tag: DPD

Competition is interested in parcels

Posted by | Oct 2, 2006 | |

DPD (France), post firm, will focus mainly on the delivery of parcels in the Czech Republic. It is a field of post services, where the national post firm Ceska posta (CP) (Czech Republic) has lost its monopoly. DPD transports about 5 mil parcels per year in the Czech Republic in 2006. According to the volume, DPD is in the third position after CP and DHL (US). DPD is a part of the multi-national group GeoPost, which is the third largest provider of express and parcel services in Europe. CP has about 39,000 employees and one-third of them are bearers. CP should be transformed from a state company to a joint-stock company shortly its privatization is being considered.

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New post companies are coming, the monopoly of CP weakens

Posted by | Oct 2, 2006 | |

TNT Post (Netherlands), post company, is starting to offer services, which have been ensured by the national post company Ceska posta (Prague, Czech Republic), in the Czech Republic during 4 2006. TNT Post will deliver heavier ordinary parcels and addressed trade notifications in the Czech Republic. TNT Post will focus on lucrative firm customers, which have ensured proceeds of about CEK 8 bil per year to CP so far. DPD, which is owned by the post company Groupe La Poste (France) through GeoPost, is extending its operation in the Czech Republic too. The Czech Republic has cardinal importance for DPD. That is why the firm decided to build a new large-distribution centre in this country. The coming of competitors to the Czech post market is allowed by a new standard, which is decreasing the monopoly of CP gradually. The monopoly should definitively end in 2009, when further firms are able to deliver common letters and parcels up to 50 g.

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Agent Kartonix and his Special Packaging service

Posted by | Sep 25, 2006 | |

DPD Masterlink introduced a new added value service, Special Packaging. This service will not only help the customer to save valuable time and money, but also decrease the number of complaints concerning damaged parcels, which resulted from insufficient packaging.

In order to use the services of a courier company one must prepare a parcel for transport, which means providing adequate packaging. Beyond doubt, the most problematic objects are those, which due to their size do not fit into standard envelopes and carton boxes or are so fragile that only carefully packed can avoid damage during transport. These objects are for e.g. big format posters, electronic devices or porcelain.

Thanks to the service Special Packaging the customer can, not only, purchase 13 different formats of packages for a preferential price carton and polystyrene boxes, tubes, bubble foil, plastic envelopes, pallets, but also order the service Special Project Logistics, meaning which DPD Masterlink will conduct the whole process of distribution starting from the collection of components from the customer, through picking&packing according to individual requirements up to delivery and preparation of specialist reports.

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German forwarders form mail network to take on Deutsche Post

Posted by | Aug 22, 2006 | |

Five German freight forwarding and logistics groups have linked up to form a private mail carrier “ Xanto” to compete with Deutsche Post. The companies are all ex-founder members of parcel carriers DPD and German Parcel (now GLS).

The founders of “Xanto – the LetNet System” are Diehl Spedition, M&M Militzer & Münch, Honold Logistik Gruppe, G.L. Kayser and Cretschmar Cargo along with the management consultant Christian Holland-Moritz who will also act as managing director. Xanto will function as a cooperation network in which up to 100 local and regional mail carriers work together to provide a nationwide coverage while retaining their identity and independent status.

“Xanto is a network which has been created by logistics service companies that are used to cooperating and which will operate independently of publishing houses and large corporations,” declared Holland-Moritz. “With the end of the letter monopoly at the start of 2008, as a private competitor we will be able to offer a nationwide mail delivery service that will lie below the price level of Deutsche Post.”

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GeoPost extends DPD network to Kazakhstan

Posted by | Jul 27, 2006 | |

The DPD network has been extended to Kazakhstan with the creation of the new joint venture, GeoPost Caspian. The expansion move is designed to take account of rising parcel volumes to the Eurasian region.

GeoPost Caspian was founded as a joint venture between local parcel operator Globalink in Kazakhstan and the Turkish DPD franchisee GeoPost Yurtici Kargo Servisi. The new company is the DPD franchisee for Kazakhstan.

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