TNT NV said it agreed to sell the remaining activities of Logistiques Nicolas to French cargo transport operator Malherbe for an undisclosed sum. The company noted that some 95 pct of TNT Logistics France, which TNT put up for sale last year, has now been sold.
Read MoreToday UPS announces the launch of UPS Mail LogicSM, a new international mail service that allows customers to streamline their mail operations by relying on UPS’s package delivery expertise. With UPS Mail Logic, businesses can simply gather their international letters, flats or packets into one parcel – no sorting by destination, metering or stamping necessary. Customers arrange for UPS pick-up along with any other small packages ready for delivery. UPS then transports the international mail to well-respected postal service entities that sort and ship the mail to the destination postal authority or other licensed party for final delivery. The launch follows a successful Mail Logic pilot programme initiated in the UK in January 2005. The success of the seven month programme, which was made available to businesses of all sizes, has prompted UPS to roll out the new service first to The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France, with additional European markets to follow.
Read MoreAustrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser said he was in favour of an initial public offering (IPO) of Austrian state-owned postal company Oesterreichische Post AG by the end of March 2006, in an interview with regional daily Tiroler Tageszeitung (TT), January 28, 2006 edition. Under initial plans, the IPO was to be carried in April or May 2006.
Read MoreThe finance director of Business Post Group PLC said it will take a year before there is a ‘significant improvement’ in the mail company’s struggling parcel business. In an interview with AFX News, Peter Fitzwilliam said the parcel business would focus on targeting small and medium-sized companies, rather than larger companies, which he said was a better use of its resources. ‘Its more efficient to have a wider spread of customers rather than a (smaller number) of bigger ones,’ he said. ‘We need to re-balance the sales mix and target SMEs. This will create operational improvements.’ Fitzwilliam was speaking after Business Post issued its second full-year profit warning in three months, saying an expected improvement in profit margins at its Parcel Services business had not materialised. It said pretax profits for the current year to March 31 would be only 9 mln stg.
Read MoreThe Slovak Post Office, Slovenska posta (SP), will begin offering a package of electronic services to its clients in July this year, company officials said.
The initial package of e-services should include the electronic administration of packages, payment of checks through the Internet, and hybrid mail, which means that people can write letters or postcards on their computers and SP will print them and forward to the addressees. Among other services, clients will also be able to reserve a PO Box through the Internet, the Hospodarske noviny daily reported.
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