Tag: Europe

DHL continues in 2005 its success in Russian market

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

DHL continued in 2005 its success in the Russian market. DHL Express reports that in 2005 shipment volumes increased by more than 30% in comparison with 2004, while revenue increased by over 40%. The strongest volume growth was in DHL Domestic products. In 2005 DHL Domestic MidDay Express 12 and DHL Domestic StartDay Express 9 services both had growth rate of over 100% in 2005 as opposed to 2004. ‘I am very pleased that the positive trend of DHL’s development in the Russian market continues. With our investment programme of nearly 50 mln. USD within the next few years in the facilities and infrastructure in Russia, we are in position to allow our customers to move their goods across borders and within the country seamlessly and quickly. DHL in Russia and globally is committed to consistently delivering outstanding quality and value to underscore that for DHL the customer always comes first’, says Frank Ungerer, General Director DHL in Russia.

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An Post to seek further staff cull

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

An Post is to seek a further 1,100 voluntary redundancies and early retirements.
The company has earmarked 40m for the payoffs. It has 9,343 full-time and casual staff. Should the offer be taken up and the full amount of 40m is paid out the average payout would come to over 36,000. An Post chief Donal Curtin said some 1,200 workers had taken up the company’s early redundancy or severance packages over the past three years. He added that a further 1,100 have confirmed their applications to leave the company over the next 24 months.
The changes agreed with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) will ultimately see a 20pc reduction in staff levels.

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Profitable An Post sets date for bank products

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

The first financial products from An Post’s joint venture with Belgian bank Fortis will be marketed to the public early next year. Donal Curtin, the chief executive of An Post who is leaving next July, said the electronic funds transfer (EFT) of social-welfare payments, child benefit and unemployment benefit would be among the services offered. He said a full range of financial products could be made available to An Post’s millions of customers through almost 5,000 ‘contact points’. He also stressed that issues like opening hours might not be a problem if ATMs can be made available.

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Hermes and TNT poised to launch strategic cooperation

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

German parcels carrier Hermes Logistik Group and TNT Express are set to launch their strategic cooperation in Germany within the next few weeks. Hermes is also progressing on creating a European B2C delivery network and plans to start selling parcel transport to European destinations in September. Announcing their strategic parcels alliance last December, the two companies said that they would cooperate in several areas of production, with TNT using Hermes’ domestic linehaul network and Hermes using TNT’s hub capacity and offering TNT express services through its network of 11,000 PaketShops.

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Chronopost to develop road network

Posted by | Apr 28, 2006 | |

Thomas Lot, chairman of the French CEP service provider Chronopost International, a subsidiary of the GeoPost group (owned by the French national post office La Poste), wants to develop a network linked almost exclusively to road services

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