Tag: Europe

Royal Mail faces setback on staff share ownership

Posted by | Dec 17, 2005 | |

Royal Mail’s hopes of persuading ministers to back its plans for employee share ownership will suffer a setback next week when a committee of MPs declares it is unconvinced by the scheme. The Commons trade and industry committee, which publishes on Tuesday the findings of a long inquiry into postal market liberalisation, is expected to be dismissive of the chairman Allan Leighton’s proposal. The state-owned postal operator, which faces full market liberalisation from January 1, wants to offer employees tradeable shares in the business, but has encountered fierce opposition to the plan from trade unionists and Labour MPs.

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Belgian PostPunten number up to 130 in 2006

Posted by | Dec 16, 2005 | |

Belgian postal service company De Post/La Poste will increase the number of its PostPunten sales counters to some 130 in 2006, the De Staandard daily said on December 15, 2005. De Post/La Poste plans to install the sales counters in supermarkets, newspaper retail stores, banks and train stations. The company installed the first string of 14 PostPunten in November 2004. The number was later raised to 46.

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VSL Logistics Award 2005 goes to trans-o-flex apprentice

Posted by | Dec 15, 2005 | |

The Transport & Logistics Association (VSL) of Baden-Wuerttemberg has awarded its Logistics Award for 2005 to a thesis by Ralf Messing, an apprentice at trans-o-flex. The award, which carries prize money of €600, was given for his essay “Possible uses of RFID at trans-o-flex.” Mr. Messing has graduated with a Forwarding, Transport & Traffic major from the Vocational University in Mannheim. In their text accompanying the award to the “far above-average thesis” the jury emphasized that Mr. Messing’s examination of alternative identification and information systems (barcode vs. RFID) was based on very comprehensive and up-to-date source material and was well structured and presented in an easily comprehensible way. “This work is convincing in its careful representation of advantages and disadvantages, taking account of cost-performance models and scenarios in the organizational and operational parts of the company. The conclusions and prognoses are of great practical relevance for the logistics industry.”

In addition to Ralf Messing, two other trans-o-flex apprentices have completed their courses at the Vocational University in Mannheim with above-average success. Helen Ehrbar received a grade 2.2 for her degree in Business IT and Michael Grosshans received a 2.1 in Forwarding, Transport & Logistics. Courses at the Vocational University are part of the Dual Apprenticeship System which is a focus at trans-o-flex. It involves a three-month practical phase in the company followed by three months of academic study at the VU, the course running over a three-year period. At the same time as making the Apprenticeship Agreement, trans-o-flex reserves a place at the VU. At present, 15 young people are undergoing this type of apprenticeship. A further 24 apprentices are on the traditional commercial training path.

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PPA wins first round against UK Royal Mail’s price hike proposal

Posted by | Dec 15, 2005 | |

Magazine industry chiefs have claimed a partial victory in their fight to prevent Royal Mail being allowed to make hefty price increases on its distribution products. The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has persuaded regulator Postcomm to recommend continued price-capping of Royal Mail’s Presstream 1 product. It feared extra distribution costs would be passed on to consumers via cover price rises. The “next- day” service is used by about a quarter of publishers to distribute trade press across the UK. But the PPA remains concerned that Postcomm will allow the removal of price controls on three-day service Presstream 2, which is used by the remaining publishers.

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Regulator for ending Deutsche Post letter monopoly

Posted by | Dec 15, 2005 | |

Germany’s postal regulator supports ending Deutsche Post’s monopoly for delivering standard letters by the end of 2007, it said on Thursday. Deutsche Post had shown that it can hold its own “despite steps in the past toward liberalisation of the letter market,” said Matthias Kruth, the head of the regulator that oversees postal, gas, electricity and telecoms operations in Germany. The regulator therefore saw “no reason not to let (Deutsche Posts’s) exclusive licence run out on Dec. 31, 2007,” he added. The German postal market is worth 23 billion euros (USD27.7 billion) a year in sales at present, Kurth said, adding that Deutsche Post accounts for about two-thirds of that.

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