Nigel Baty, general manager of BA’s Special Handling unit has been involved with the Heathrow operation for 12 years. Having spent three years at Gatwick he was moved back to BA’s stand alone Heathrow facility, last August, where he has rung in the changes.
“There have been a lot of initiatives put in place to make sure the products are brought back from the aircraft in time. Since last August, our productivity has increased by 20%,” says Baty.
TNT Latvia express delivery service company has lowered tariffs for deliveries between Baltic states by 40 percent as of mid-October, TNT regional office head reported.
Martins Gerkens said the new tariffs apply on deliveries by vehicles of all packages and cargo weighing between 0.5-1000 kilograms.
The decision to lower the tariffs for deliveries between the Baltic states was made based on market research which showed there is a high demand for delivery of documents, packages and small cargo in this region.
October 18, 2001 — “Deutsche Post World Net and Lufthansa Cargo AG have set up a new subsidiary under the name XPL to market complete logistics outsourcing services to major customers, Deutsche Post board member Peter Kruse said on Thursday. The new company was majority-owned by logistics division Danzas while DHL International, Deutsche Post Euro Express and Lufthansa Cargo shared the remaining ownership, he told Reuters in an interview at the German logistics congress in Berlin. Headed by Danzas business development director Mike Proffitt, XPL would offer so-called fourth-party logistics (4PL) solutions beyond mere transport services to large firms with complex logistics requirements, he said. This supply chain management company was an example of co-operation between the Deutsche Post group and Lufthansa Cargo under their strategic alliance signed last year, he added. Addressing a news conference earlier, Kruse, in charge of European express services, said Deutsche Post and air express firm DHL International, in which it holds 51 percent, were already increasing operational co-operation and would shortly consider how to cross-sell products of both the Deutsche Post Euro Express parcels network and DHL Worldwide Express services. The DHL European overland service Europolitan, for example, had used the Deutsche Post Euro Express network since this September, he added.”
Read MoreConsignia, the state-owned postal services group, is considering drastic changes to its distribution network that could lead to a big reduction in its use of mail trains.
A review of the company’s transport needs is understood to be seeking substantial savings in the cost of distributing 80m letters a day, of which about 20 per cent go by train
Read MoreThe postal branches of the French CGT and FO unions declared on Tuesday that the proposed deregulation of postal services within the European Union takes this sector “one step closer to privatisation”.
At the same time, the SUD union claimed that the meeting of ministers in Luxembourg has effectively approved “the complete deregulation of the postal market”, while the CFDT accused the French government of scaling down its demands on this issue. The resulting compromise, said the union, poses “a threat to jobs in the postal sector”.
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