Tag: Europe

New Director at La Poste

Posted by | Sep 25, 2008 | |

Kurt Pierloot becomes the new Director of Mail & Parcels Operations at La Poste (Belgium). He will succeed Bernard Delvaux who had already announced his intention to stand down. Kurt Pierloot will be also assistant of the Steering committee.

The nomination of Kurt Pierloot was approved by the Board of directors, on the recomendation of Johnny Thijs, CEO of the Post office.

36-year-old Kurt Pierloot studied sales at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Solvay Business School). He joined La Poste in 2004, and was actively involved in the implementation of change in the Mail division, – in particular Georoute, and then of the direction of all the Mail activities in Brussels. Since 2006, he has been director of the Mail network and in charge of the management of all the activities relating to “Collections & Distribution” of the Post office.

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Hermes Transport Logistics targets Europe with road, air, ocean products

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

Hermes Logistics is expanding its freight transport business by re-branding it to target the European market and offering a broader product range, including road, air and ocean freight transportation.

The unit will be re-branded from Hermes Transportlogistik to Hermes Transport Logistics (HTL) during 2009, and will expand its road transportation fleet of swapbodies by adding up to 2,500 semi-trailers for international FTL services in Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Austria and the Benelux countries, the company announced.

Moreover, HTL will integrate Otto International Logistics, the freight forwarding business of parent company Otto Group, and will thus be able to offer air and ocean freight services to its customers as of March 2009. The HTL air and ocean business will be managed by Eckhardt Fechtner, currently in the same role for Otto International Logistics.

HTL will initially take over the international freight volumes of the Otto Group and other existing customers with trade flows from Asia. The company is already in discussions with major customers about combining transport flows for distribution through its network.

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Deutsche Post VAT privileges cut

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet agreed to reduce a tax break granted to Deutsche Post AG while extending the benefit to the mail carriers’ competitors.

Cabinet members meeting in Berlin agreed that from 2010 Deutsche Post will lose an exemption from charging value-added tax on some services such as bulk business mail. At the same time, the tax privileges given to Deutsche Post will be extended to competitors that match the former monopoly in providing universal services.

The step reflects Germany’s aim to “stay abreast of liberalization in the postal market,” the government said in a statement, adding that the plan meets a European Union demand for changes in value-added tax exemptions.
The measures, if approved by parliament, will mean Deutsche Post facing competitors who enjoy VAT privileges at the same time as banks and mail-order companies eat into its core business activities. The Bonn-based company has long fought against an amendment of its tax privilege, citing the costs of fulfilling its charter to provide a universal post service to Europe’s most populous nation.

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Post offices of Azerbaijan to render financial services

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

Adoption of amendments to Law on Post Communications will not mean automatic permission for post services to start rendering financial and banking services.
Ziyad Samedzadeh, the chairman of the Permanent Parliamentary Commission for Economic Policy, said the project stipulates transition period, but not as a concrete term.

This week the Parliamentary Economic Policy Commission recommended Milli Majlis (Azerbaijani parliament) discussed draft amendments to the Law on Postal Services permitting post offices to render financial and bank services.
Post offices are expected to render such bank services as certain settlements, issue of debit and credit cards, receipt of deposits, fast money transfers.
The system when post offices are drawn to render bank services has been applied effectively in Kazakhstan, France and Japan.

Azerbaijan is numbering 1,700 post offices currently.

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