The international letter services of Deutsche Post, the German postal service operator, will now also undergo a change of name in Europe, from Deutsche Post Global Mail to DHL Global Mail. Through the name change for its global activities, the group aims to increas the significance of DHL further as its international brand. Domestic and international letter services in Germany will continue to be operated under the name of Deutsche Post.
Read MoreThe Post Office yesterday caved in to demands that it release details of its sub-post office closure programme and the whereabouts of local offices scheduled to close. The state enterprise finally acceded to a request from the Guardian for the list of offices due for closure by the end of March, rather than face being forced to disclose its plans under new freedom of information rules. Almost 2,500 offices have been singled out as part of a widespread cost-cutting plan. More than 2,000 have already been closed, and the remainder are due to go over the next two months. The Post Office said for the first time yesterday that 396 were threatened with closure and admitted that, notwithstanding last minute appeals, almost all would shut their doors in the coming weeks.
Read MorePolish Post (PP) will construct four logistics and sorting centers in 2005, which will be added to the existing two centers operating in Warsaw and Poznañ.
“The investments will consume zl.1 billion,” said Andrzej Pacholski, operating director of postal operations at PP. In order to further boost its competitiveness the company will also offer financial services later this year. “By the end of January we will choose three to four investment funds which will get exclusive cooperation rights for a definite period of time,” said Mariusz Wnuk, director of financial and market services at PP.
DHL Express is planning to break into the market for trans-European combined shipping and rail transport services. The company is planning to operate a rail connection between Lubeck-Travemunde and Verona in collaboration with Lubecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG), the company that operates Lubeck harbour. The train will run twice weekly and will allow around 130,000 tonnes of goods to be transferred from the roads to the railways while in transit between Scandinavia and southern Europe.
Read MoreBaltic Logistic System-Latvija (BLS), an express delivery company selling services under Bizpak trademark, may have operated at some 1 million euros or some 703,000 lats sales in 2004, up some 50 percent on 2003, when the sales were 463,000 lats, the company reported. BLS would not reveal the expected profit or loss figure for 2004. In 2003 the company was 238,000 lats in the red.
BLS said the number of entities using express delivery services is constantly growing in Latvia, pushing the number of deliveries last year up almost two times on 2003. For 2005 the company expects surge in domestic deliveries “amid growing understanding on market of benefits provided by delivery services”. Sufficient growth is expected for international deliveries as well.
All in all though BLS expects slower growth in 2005 than in 2004.
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