Correos y Telegrafos, the Spanish postal service, is considering a possible purchase of a courier company with the aim of gaining market share in the sector. Correos recently launched courier subsidiary Chronoexpress and group chairman Alberto Nunez announced yesterday that French counterpart La Poste is to take a minority stake in the new venture.
Read Moree-Enabling the Post – Steve Gray, e-Business Program Manager, UPU
Read MoreOctober 11, 2001 — Herbert Nielsen, Reuters: “Pan Nordic Logistics (PNL) is maintaining its strategy of joining a major international alliance before the year-end, but this will not be with France’s Chronopost, PNL’s chairman Karre Frydenberg said. PNL was formed by the Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish post offices but today it was announced that Post Sweden – following Finland – is leaving the group from January next year.
Read MoreThe state mail carriers of Sweden and France, Posten AB and La Poste, agreed Thursday to cooperate on package deliveries and other shipments.
“Our objective is to quickly integrate the new operations and increase volume,” said Lennart Grabe,” president and group CEO of Posten.
La Poste’s 85 percent-owned Direct Parcel Distribution _ one of Europe’s largest package service networks _ may enter into franchise agreements with Posten in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Posten stated in a news release.
Read More“Back to the Future,” by Dr. H.J. Grundmann, CEO, Siemens Production and Logistics Systems AG, Postal Automation Division, Siemens Dematic, is a presentation from Post-Expo 2001 in Geneva.
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