Tag: Europe

APC Overnight Announces Cordless Phone World Success

Posted by | Aug 27, 2008 | |

APC Overnight offer an online booking, tracking and pre-labelling service using the advanced online service developed by NetDespatch. Since switching to APC Overnight, Cordless Phone World has also gained much improved delivery reliability and traceability allowing their own customer service to be enhanced.

Orders received online from Cordless Phone World customers are captured electronically by NetDespatch allowing collections to be booked in and parcel labels pre-printed ready for collection by APC Overnight. This eliminates any transcription errors as delivery details are entered only once and that is by the customer.

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Swiss Post International posts good but slightly lower half-year results

Posted by | Aug 27, 2008 | |

Swiss Post achieved a good result in H1 2008. With net income of EUR 265 million the result was EUR 51 m or 16.1 pct below the record figure of the year-back period. Swiss Post International – Swiss Post’s international unit – generated operating income of EUR 327 m, which was EUR 28 m below the year-back period. The reason for this was due mainly to the current currency situation. SPI is nevertheless likely to contribute to the Group profit of Swiss Post in 2008.

Swiss Post International (SPI), which operates in the international mail, parcel and express business, posted a good operating result again in the first half of 2008. The performance was not quite as good as that in 2007, however. SPI generated operating income of EUR 327 m in the first half. This is EUR 28 m below the year-back figure. SPI lost around EUR 6 m as a result of transactions in foreign currencies, which were converted at a lower rate than in mid-2007. The result from translation of amounts due from international partners was also around EUR 21 m lower.

Most SPI subsidiaries were able to lift their operating income again compared with last year. SPI intends to continue along its growth path in the next few years with a number of ongoing projects in sales and with additional acquisitions. SPI is thus driving the steady expansion of its international network. Already at the beginning of 2008 SPI acquired the Swedish letter processor IMS Europe AB.

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Correos launches new money transfer service to Uruguay

Posted by | Aug 26, 2008 | |

The Spanish postal operator Correos this week launched a new international express postal order service that will enable money to be fast-tracked to Uruguay. In time, the system will be able to transfer money to Chile and Morocco.

The service is the result of an agreement signed by the Correos and Uruguayan Mail during the 24th Congress of the Postal Universal Union (UPU) that was held in Geneva. The international urgent postal order is already operative in 60 offices of the Uruguayan Mail but it now means that money can be transferred back and forth in the space of 15 minutes, and a significantly reduced cost to that offered by other money transfer services.

The service uses the International Financial System (IFS), designed by the Center of Postal Technologies of the UPU, designed to create a trustworthy and sure network for the transference of money by electronic means between the postal operators. It also fulfills a commitment of agreement of cooperation signed by the UPU and the Government of Spain in December, 2007 with the aim to introduce direct transfers to South America and the North Africa, through the network international financier of the UPU.

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DHL moves into packaging compliance

Posted by | Aug 26, 2008 | |

DHL Exel Supply Chain has launched its own packaging compliance scheme. This system complements its packaging waste data services, which allow customers to calculate their annual packaging weight obligation.

Head of environmental and compliance solutions Sean Hodges said that the service was added because of customer demand. This will be the second compliance scheme that DHL has launched – it already operates a Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance scheme.

Hodges said that people were sceptical at first when DHL moved into WEEE. He said the firm operated a WEEE scheme because the company was initially led by legislation, has “a lot of logistical services” and carries a lot of “electrical goods around the country to recyclers”.

He hopes that the “success” that DHL has had in meeting the obligations of members of its WEEE scheme will be replicated through the new packaging compliance scheme.

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APC Overnight expands Bellshill hub operation

Posted by | Aug 26, 2008 | |

Independent parcel carrier APC Overnight has expanded its Bellshill hub operation in Scotland in a bid to reduce fuel consumption, improve delivery times and cut its environmental impact. APC, which has more than 170 delivery vehicles in its fleet and runs 125 depots across the country, is now using the site to retain all its consignments for Scottish destinations within Scotland.

At Bellshill a third of all parcels received are sorted and distributed in Scotland without ever crossing the border, enabling earlier deliveries. APC says that as a result it is able to manage drivers’ working time better.

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