The UK same-day courier market, with its thousands of small local operators, is, surely, just what the Internet was designed for. And two main products have emerged – financed in different ways, but both designed on the principle that if you can bring together a parcel or vital document and an empty-running driver, your electronic sub-contractor network can maintain service levels while improving efficiency.
How Courier Exchange & Expeditus operate
A government-orchestrated bail-out for LTU, the German charter airline, was facing criticism on Monday as Lufthansa, the German national airline, turned to the European Commission to stop what it described as “state subsidies”.
Lufthansa competes with LTU through Condor, the charter airline of Thomas Cook, the second-largest travel group in Europe. Thomas Cook is a joint venture between Lufthansa and retailer Karstadt Quelle.
Read MoreAs the managing director of DHL in Israel, Dan Granot has one recurring headache – last mile delivery to residential areas. The problem with delivering packages to homes, he discovered, was that his deliverymen worked during office hours and so did the recipients of the parcels. Seventy-five percent of the time, a deliveryman would have to drive out two or three times before he could finally get the parcel delivered. This cost the carrier a great deal of time and money. The carrier subsidized each trip and was losing large amounts of money on residential areas.
Last summer, Granot – who founded delivery company Shigur Express – decided to try to solve this problem together with Nir Kinory and Yoav Koster. The result is eShip-4u, a start-up company that has developed a convenient hardware and software solution that solves the problem of last mile delivery.
Read MoreSchiphol is already the fourth largest gateway in Europe for both passengers and cargo. The recognition that this fact provides will be further boosted over the next few months, thanks to the part-privatisation of parent company Schiphol Group (see panel page 6). Meanwhile, the airport is pursuing various initiatives and projects which should ensure its continued development as more than a mere air transport hub. Beyond 2010, though, the future is not yet clear.
Read MoreStarting as of today [10 November], the Russian Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy has introduced new tariffs for all postal services.
The tariffs for sending postcards and letters will be raised by 30 per cent. The weight charge for sending parcels of a declared value will also go up 30 per cent. At the same time, the payment for the declared value will be reduced by 20 per cent.
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