ANC Express has chosen Carrier Logistics to build a new track and trace computer system to handle the 125,000 pieces of freight it moves each night. The Focus system is in the final stages of testing before its implementation across ANCs national network.
Read MoreAmtrak this week rolled out an extended home delivery service across the the UK; it will deliver up to 8.30pm. Amtrak first trialled the service in London and then expanded to several other large cities for the past year, and trialled it before Christmas with a major customer, before rolling out nationwide. Amtrak says the move is in response to growing demand. MD Jonathan Smith says: “People want deliveries at a convenient time when they are already at home and for many that is not in the working day. Evening deliveries are pretty essential in our view and are a part of a range of services we are developing to tackle the home delivery sector.”
Read MoreAn Post has had to put off plans to close its loss making SDS parcels division next Monday. The postponment comes as a result of its acceptance last night of a National Implementation Body plan to head off industrial action in the postal services. The company has also lifted the suspension of 68 workers who had been refusing to co-operate with the run down of the operation. The plan has also been accepted by the CWU union, and obliges it to accept a binding Labour Court investigation of the closure plan.
Read MoreBelgian postal services company De Post/La Poste returned to profit posting 36 mln euro (USD46.9 mln) in 2004, compared to a 64 mln euro (USD83.3 mln) loss for 2003, it was reported on January 24, 2005. The company’s operating profit increased to 34 mln euro (USD44.3 mln) in the same period. It laid off some 2,000 employees through a natural attrition programme in 2003 and 2004. Currently, the company has 37,920 full-time employees.
Read MoreTPG NV is considering the opportunities to make a possible bid for a stake in Belgian postal company De Post/La Poste, a spokesman of TPG said on January 25, 2005. Bids for a stake in the Belgian company are to be filed at the end of February 2005 at the latest, Belgian media sources said, based on statements of De Post’s chief executive officer, Johnny Thijs. TPG is also in the race for a 25 pct stake in Post Danmark, for which the company has made an official bid. The Danish government expects to select an exclusive party at the beginning of February 2005. According to TPG spokesman, the company had enough financial space for both bids. The spokesman did not say when TPG would take a decision on a possible bid for a stake in De Post.
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