Pallet ventures build network
Palletline and Pall-Ex are facing growing competition from rivals with pan-European strategies – European Network Distribution (END) and United Pallet Network (UPN)
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EU agrees to open 40% of postal markets by 2006
European Union governments agreed on Monday gradually to open their postal delivery markets to competition, reducing the traditional dominance of national mail monopolies. After more than a year of wrangling, ministers from the 15 EU member states reached a compromise that would open about 40 percent of the bloc’s postal market by 2006, EU single market commissioner Frits Bolkestein said.
Read MoreEUROPE IN DEADLOCK ON POSTAL LIBERALISATION
The long-standing dispute over the future of Europe’s postal markets reaches a climax tomorrow at a council of EU telecommunications ministers in Luxembourg. EU leaders meeting in Lisbon in March 2000 all agreed to liberalise their markets in a bid to make the European economy more dynamic and competitive.
Belgium, which currently holds the EU presidency, is trying to cobble together a deal which would open 20 per cent of the postal markets to competition in 2006, compared to the present 3 per cent.
The long-standing dispute over the future of Europe’s postal markets reaches a climax tomorrow at a council of EU telecommunications ministers in Luxembourg.
EU leaders meeting in Lisbon in March 2000 all agreed to liberalise their markets in a bid to make the European economy more dynamic and competitive.
Belgium, which currently holds the EU presidency, is trying to cobble together a deal which would open 20 per cent of the postal markets to competition in 2006, compared to the present 3 per cent.
Read MoreTelecoms move for Consignia
The Financial Times has reported that “Consignia, the government-owned group which runs the Royal Mail, is to use the Post Office to sell telecommunications services nearly 20 years after it was split from British Telecommunications. From next week, post offices around the UK will offer self-branded, pre-pay cards giving customers access to a leased network run by Tele2, the Swedish pan-European telecoms operator. The move represents an effort by Consignia to expand its revenue base, which has been hit by the proliferation of e-mail and the growth of private postal companies.”
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