Tag: Europe

DHL expands French express network with new Lille sorting centre

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

DHL Express France has opened a new centre for sorting, distribution and customs clearance in Lille-Fretin, northern France, to strengthen its air express network in the country.

The new state-of-the-art EUR 1 million facility is part of the company’s large-scale investment in its European network now interconnected through its international hub at Leipzig/Halle, Germany, DHL France said.

Three months of construction work were needed to put the sorting centre into operation including its sorting chain and the air freight security system. The 2,700 sqm facility has sorting capacity of up to 600 parcels an hour. In total, there are about 1,900 import and 1,500 export shipments handled daily at Fretin by 60 employees working at the site. DHL Express employs a total of 73 people in the area, including staff at the two depots at Calais and Amiens.

Security is ensured by X-ray tunnels to control the outbound shipments immediately and on-site. This equipment is in line with the air cargo security regulations of the French civil aviation authority DGAC.

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Premier: Advanced postal services to be introduced in Armenia

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

New advanced postal services are to be introduced in Armenia, the country’s Premier Tigran Sargsyan said at the opening of the second Armenian Technology Congress (ArmTech).

These services will be accessible in every village of the country, he said.

He pointed importance to introduction of the new services in changing public attitudes.

The program is implemented together with the private sector. It
will give an impetus to development of information technologies in
the country and will bring to an abrupt rise in number of entities
involved in IT sector, Sargsyan said.

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EU tells Slovakia to keep mail service competitive

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

European Union antitrust regulators ordered Slovakia to reopen competition in its postal sector, ruling that recent legal changes violated EU rules on dominant market positions.

Before February, the Slovak postal system was open to competition and several private companies were active in the sector. But then the government amended the law, reserving the delivery of some mail to the incumbent postal operator.

‘The (European) Commission’s decision is directly legally binding on Slovakia, which must inform the Commission within one month of the measures undertaken to ensure that hybrid mail services remain open to competition,’ it said in a statement.

The amendment extended the monopoly of incumbent operator Slovenska Posta to the delivery of hybrid mail services, while this activity had until then been open to competition.

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Parcelnet links up with Hermes

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

“We want to be part of the European network as part of Hermes,” Parcelnet’s Managing Director Carole Woodhead said. German-based Hermes is building up a European network with sister companies Parcelnet, Mondial Relay (France) and Porta a Porta (Italy) as well as its subsidiary in Austria.

Parcelnet is currently testing cross-border deliveries from Britain to Germany for TV shopping company QVC, Woodhead said. “More British companies are interested in Europe, and there are European customers with UK shipments,” she commented. The home delivery firm, which has so far used other European carriers for its cross-border shipments, is also in talks with France’s Mondial Relay over cooperation. “In future we want a common service offer,” she added.

Parcelnet currently handles about 110 million parcels a year, has revenues of over GBP 200 million (EUR 257 million) and “is a profitable company”, Woodhead stressed.

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Royal Mail's request to waive the Redelivery local collect charge during December 2008 (UK)

Posted by | Oct 7, 2008 | |

Royal Mail has asked Postcomm for a temporary exemption which would waive the 50p Redelivery local collect charge during December 2008.
Postcomm published a consultation letter which seeks stakeholders’ views on Royal Mail’s request, and stakeholders are invited to respond to the letter by 7 November 2008. We expect to make a decision in early November 2008.
On 26 September 2008, Royal Mail applied for a Direction from Postcomm for exemption from the three month notification period required by Condition 7 for it to waive the 50p Redelivery Local Collect charge during December 2008. It proposed to make this change available to all recipients of items that have not been delivered on the first attempt.

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