Tag: Europe

TPG loses monopoly. Court case

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

Competitors are permitted to break TPG’s monopoly for postal deliveries of up to 50 grams by making ordinary letters heavier. The district court in The Hague yesterday rejected a case brought by TPG against postal company Sandd.

The case hinged on bills delivered by Sandd for mail-order company Otto. Sandd delivered these in an envelope along with a catalogue, pushing the total weight above 50 grams. Sandd was thereby evading the law, TPG argued. But the judge rejected this.

TPG Post, a subsidiary of bourse-listed TNT, has a monopoly in the Netherlands on the delivery of letters weighing less than 50 grams. Sandd added a catalogue with the sole aim of evading this monopoly, according to the company.

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Deutsche Post World Net seeks patent for GoGreen

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post World Net has filed for a patent for its GoGreen concept. The aim of the concept is to offer carbon-neutral shipping for DHL products for business and private customers, in order to cut CO 2 emissions. All CO 2 emissions generated in the transportation of GoGreen small parcels and packages are first calculated and then compensated for in the system. This compensation can be achieved through environmental protection projects and activities. As part of its environmental efforts, Deutsche Post World Net has introduced a system of carbon management within the Group. The system is comparable to the credit and debit system in financial banking; this carbon management process tracks the CO 2 emissions of GoGreen packages offsetting them against environmental protection projects.

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EU clears 2.4 bln eur aid for Poste Italiane, but opens new inquiry

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

The European Commission has cleared 2.4 bln eur in aid given by the Italian government to postal service provider Poste Italiane between 2000 and 2005, but simultaneously opened a new inquiry into interest rates applied to current accounts from 2005.

Commenting on the aid, the EU executive said the government was ‘fulfilling its public service obligations’.

However, the commission also opened an investigation into the high level of interest rates, financed by the government, applied to customers’ current account funds from 2005.

Funds collected from the current accounts are deposited with the Italian treasury.

The commission said the higher interest rates give Poste Italiane an economic advantage and so potentially distort competition and trade.

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DHL strike threat widens after jobs move

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

DHL, the German company which is set to take over a multibillion-pound part of the National Health Service, was facing a strike yesterday by up to 5,000 employees in Britain who allege that management is behaving like “Victorian mill owners”.

The parcels company was accused of planning to dismiss 3,000 permanent staff to replace them with 2,500 casual workers in a move that would mean DHL did not have to make national insurance payments.

While ministers havetried to assure NHS workers being switched to DHL that the company was a good employer, unions claimed yesterday it was involved in a “race to the bottom” in terms of employment standards.

News of the strike threat at DHL Express came before a second 24-hour stoppage, starting tonight, by members of the public service union Unison at NHS Logistics, who are protesting at the takeover by the German group. The walkout coincides with a debate on the health service at the Labour Party conference in Manchester.

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