Tag: Europe

GLS targets pharmaceutical industry

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

Parcels and express company GLS aims to generate more business from the German pharmaceuticals industry. The Royal Mail subsidiary said that it will be exhibiting for the first time at the Expopharm trade fair in Munich from September 21-24 to gain new business contacts and promote its services.

“We offer 10 years of experience in the shipping of dental products, very high quality standards and industry-specific additional services,” explained Klaus Conrad, managing director of GLS Germany. “We are targeting growth of 20% this year in the pharmaceuticals sector.” GLS put particular focus on quality and secure transportation, with a damage rate of less than one item per 10,000 parcels, he added.

GLS Germany said it has already successfully doubled its volumes in the pharmaceuticals sector in the last two years. Export shipments, particularly to Austria and the Benelux states, had increased strongly. It now delivers to all 21,500 chemists across Germany.

The parcels company offers reliable delivery with rapid transit times, full tracking and tracing and inclusive insurance, along with additional services specifically for the pharmaceuticals industry such as the “Adressee Only” delivery option.

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GeoPost subsidiary Armadillo expands Russian network

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

The Russian parcels and freight logistics group Armadillo, a GeoPost subsidiary, said it has opened six new branches in key regions over the first half of 2006 to further expand its network.

Three branches are located in Siberia (Barnaul, Krasnojarsk, Osmk), one in the Volga region (Saratov), and two branches in the Far East (Charabarovsk and Wladiwostok). The openings give the company a total of 22 branches throughout all the regions of the Russian Federation, from the North-West to the Far East, Armadillo said in a statement.

Each new branch incorporates an office and operating terminal, including handling equipment and IT technology linking all branches. Each branch covers about 500 sqm and has capacity to handle up to 2,000 parcels per day.

“In the next five years, the Russian logistics market will experience a tremendous boom thanks to the biggest Western retailers,” explained Sergey Kruglov, director general of the Armadillo Group. “After opening branches in Moscow and St. Petersburg, they are capturing the market in further regions of Russia where they require the same quality they guarantee to their customers in Moscow, Europe and all over the world. Russian companies will certainly try to capture the regional market where the demand for transportation services is very high,” he added.

The Armadillo Group, which is jointly owned by GeoPost and its Turkish partner, Yurtici Kargo, offers courier, express, parcel and freight transportation within Russia and internationally, including the Bizpak just-in-time delivery service. It plans to expand its network further later this year.

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Postcomm consults on a long term licence for Zip Mail Limited

Posted by | Sep 12, 2006 | |

Postcomm today began a 30-day consultation on the proposed issue of a new long-term licence to Zip Mail Limited.

Under the new licensing framework that took effect from 1 January 2006, Zip Mail’s licence would:
allow it to provide all types of postal service;
be issued for a rolling ten year period;
require the company to comply with codes of practice on mail integrity (safety and security of the mail) and common operational procedures
(designed to ensure the multi-operator market works well in practice).

The consultation document and proposed licence can be found on the Zip Mail Limited consultation page. Printed copies are available from Postcomm at Hercules House, 6 Hercules Road, London, SE1 7DB. The closing date for responses is 12 October 2006.

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RPT Deutsche Post's Petram wants to close smaller post offices after end-2007

Posted by | Sep 11, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG board member Hans-Dieter Petram told the Seuddeutsche Zeitung that mail carrier will be shutting down branches in smaller locations by the time the company’s monopoly falls in 2007/08.

He told the newspaper that the law that requires the national mail service to cover the majority of locations in Germany an ‘anachronism.’

‘Of course we will continue to deliver packages and letters to even the

smallest villages, but we don’t need to keep branches open in these areas to

sell a couple of postage stamps per day,’ Petram said.

If Deutsche Post is expected to keep open many of these locations, than the

government-regulated prices it charges will need to be looked at, Petram said.

The opening of the market at the end of next year will not necessarily bring

lower prices for customers, Petram added.

But should the government demand that postage prices be reduced, Deutsche

Post’s competitors, who are already active in market, would have serious problems.

‘They’re terribly afraid of this,’ Petram said.

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UK union to announce result of strike ballot on DHL takeover of NHS logistics

Posted by | Sep 11, 2006 | |

Public services union Unison is to announce the results of a ballot for industrial action in protest over the takeover of NHS logistics by Deutsche Post AG unit DHL.

The strike could involve 1,000 workers, furious over the private outsourcing supply contract worth 1.6 bln stg.

Unison leader Dave Prentis said he would be seeking a judicial review of the way the contract was awarded.

If approved, the action could be the first in a series of major industrial protests by civil servants over government reforms of public services.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, warned of a strike ballot within weeks among 280,000 civil servants over job and pay cuts and privatising services.

‘Time is running out for government, who have failed to give guarantees over compulsory redundancies and deteriorating services, as they plough on regardless in cutting civil service jobs,’ he said.

‘Added to this you have a backlog of over 200 pay deals yet to be settled because of the chancellor’s intention to drive down pay among some of the lowest paid, many of whom earn as little as the minimum wage.’

Chancellor Gordon Brown has mounted an intense campaign to keep public sector wage deals to 2 pct or less as he fears big wage rises for Britain’s civil servants will fuel inflation and harm his spending plans.

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