DuMont-Schauberg, Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft and W. Girardet, three German local newspaper publishers based in the west of the country, are to form a mail delivery joint venture, which will be named West Mail. Business customers with large volumes of mail will constitute the main target market for the new company, which is to be launched in the coming month.
Read MoreGeodis is to launch a new European groupage servicecalled Eurofirst next month, providing customers with online tracking, PoDs and quality reports. The service will initially cover ten countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain; a further 15 countries will be added at the end of the year. Geodis launched the Eurofirst product at its annual results presentation in London last Friday. The main groupage business in the UK goes live with Eurofirst in April and the pallet network, Fortec, is expected to plug into the system in May. This should prove a major benefit for Fortec member companies and their customers, says managing director Rod Abrahams.
Read MoreBristol delivery company Amtrak Express Parcels has won a £3 million contract to deliver home computers for Tiny.com. The company will offer a next-day service for PCs and multimedia systems from the online retailer, sister company of Time Computers and The Computer Shop. It will deliver from Tiny’s manufacturing plant in Burnley, offering evening and Saturday deliveries.
Read MoreFrench postal group La Poste seeks to expand its logistics services network in Poland as the logistics market growth in central and eastern Europe is very strong and the return on investments in the region is much faster than in western Europe, the company said on March 22, 2005. La Poste will invest in the near future between 25 mln euro (USD32.9 mln) and 30 mln euro (USD39.5 mln) in the markets of eastern and central Europe, while largest investment will be made in Poland, where the company is already present. La Poste has in Poland, through its subsidiary GeoPost, a courier services provider Masterlink Express and forwarding services provider Air Cargo Poland. The company plans to set up a new logistics services company in the country, which will operate within the network managed by its subsidiary and will offer parcel delivery services DPD.
Read MoreThe Infrastructure Ministry finally commenced work on transforming Poczta Polska (the Polish Post) into a joint-stock company. Currently, the Post is a public utility company, which makes management and investment decisions very difficult. This is a huge problem, as the postal services market is becoming more liberal, and in 2009 it should become completely so. The Post’s management presented a set of documents in favor of transforming it into a joint stock company to the Ministry in January. The Ministry started work on the legislative changes, enabling the commercialisation of Post, several days ago.
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