presence in Sweden have continued to see growth – UPS reports doubledigit increases in 2001 – the express market as a whole has seen a significant slowdown since the first quarter.
DHL has around 60% of the Swedish express market, and saw growth tumble from 15% in Q1 to zero in July and August and a 2% drop in September.
The Royal Mail could face legal action after failing to make daily deliveries to thousands of homes around the country. Postwatch has sought legal advice because Consignia is failing in its duty as set out in section 58 of the Postal Services Act 2000.
Read MoreAéroports de Paris (ADP) is confident that freighter operators, including FedEx and La Poste, will be able to stay at Paris Charles de Gaulle despite French government plans to curtail night ifights.
Prime minister Leone! Jospin said the government would “hold a wide consultation in order to limit the number of movements at night, particularly of air freight… and to that end, will look at how to organise the movement of cargo operations to Vatry”.
ADP marketing development director Claude Elbaz said none of the operators concerned was interested in moving to Vatry, a cargoonly airport some 130km east of Paris. “It is not realistic to move to a place in the middle of nowhere,” he said.
“If they wanted to be based there, they would have set up their operations there. Integrators need access to passenger networks to transfer cargo for destinations not served by their own fleets.”
Deutsche Post said on Monday it would appeal a cartel office order blocking its takeover of express delivery group Trans-o-flex and would retain operational control over the firm until a final ruling on its appeal.
Read MorePosten AB is on the offensive with business agreements, company acquisitions and the development or services within the transportation and logistics sector. The agreement with La Poste is providing Posten with access to a logistics network for the whole of Europe including the N4ordic and Baltic regions.
In that network Posten will be able to exhibit a broad and deep competence in the entire spectrum pertaining to the management of the flow of goods from order to delivery supported by a number of E-services. Together these serve to establish Posten’s solutions for E-commerce and logistics as a prototype for the whole industry
The agreement with the French La Poste provides Posten with access to one of the largest networks for parcel deliveries in Europe.
“In the long term this implies a doubling of todays turnover of MSEK 4,000 within the logistics sector, says Björn Sjöström, Head of Posten ABs Business Unit for E-commerce and Logistics.
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