Tag: Europe

Chronoexpress appoints new General Director

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Chronoexpress, the express courier and parcel subsidiary of Correos, has appointed Eduardo Herrera as new General Director.

The appointment marks “a new stage of consolidation” at the company, Correos said in a press release. Chronoexprés has 50 depots across Spain and a fleet of 2,000 delivery vehicles.

Herrera, an economics and business studies graduate joined Chronoexprés as finance director in 2005.

José Tola García, who helped Chronoexprés cuts its losses by 60 pct, becomes transport director of Correos mail division.

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AstraZeneca – one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers -has awarded NYK Logistics (UK) Ltd a two and a half year contract.

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

The contract is for the centralized planning and primary distribution of pharmaceutical products from its manufacturing sites throughout Europe into its European distribution network.

Under the new agreement, NYK is providing centralized management and planning of the entire pan-European road transportation operation.

James Shaw (Global Category Lead Freight & Logistics), AstraZeneca said: “We were impressed by NYK’s approach to the tender process – their solution went beyond our initial requirements and demonstrated a high level of added value, along with an understanding of the importance of quality, integrity and audit control in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Their professional and pro-active approach also gave us every confidence in their ability to deliver what they promised.

“At both a cultural and operational level, NYK recognized that the new approach would represent a major challenge for many of our manufacturing plants and established a dedicated implementation team to ensure a seamless transition to the new system, including a dedicated relationship manager to ensure maximum confidence and co-operation from every site.”

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PalletFORCE has appointed Alan Cooke to the new position of Network Solutions Director.

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Alan will have responsibility for looking at how PalletFORCE’s current models can be improved, and also will be charged with developing innovative new ways of working as the Network looks to diversify in the future.

Alan brings seventeen years of experience in the logistics industry, having worked with both logistics companies and end users. He joins PalletFORCE from T-Mobile, where as International Logistics Manager he looked after the distribution and warehousing needs of twelve European countries. Previous employers include Christian Salvesen, Exel Logistics, Kuehne and Nagel, and Tesco.

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Latvian post company now licks stamps for a fee

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Latvian state-owned postal company Latvijas Pasts has launched a new paid service of helping customers to prepare their mail, including licking stamps. As of August, post offices in the small Baltic nation have been charging 0.03 lats (5.8 US cents) for gluing stamps to envelopes.

Arranging mail takes additional time and resources, spokeswoman Inese Kreicberga told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

“Postal regulations provide that a client is responsible for preparing a letter to be sent, while the post delivers it,” Kreicberga said.

“To those clients who want postal operators to help them with drawing up a letter, the post can offer such a service for payment,” she said.

Latvijas Pasts has been plagued by financial troubles in recent months. The second least profitable company in the country, Latvijas Pasts lost 4.87 million lats (USD 9.56 million) in 2006, according to a report published earlier this week.

The company has raised rates for money order and faced a threat of employee strike at the end of July.

The government of Latvia is considering converting post offices throughout the country into postal banks, merging postal offices with bank branches in approximately 700 locations in the European Union Baltic country of 2.3 million people.

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Survey records people’s attitudes to Royal Mail service

Posted by | Sep 6, 2007 | |

One year on from Royal Mail’s introduction of Pricing in Proportion (PIP), MarketingFile conducted a survey to see if business postal costs had increased or decreased.

When asked “since PIP was introduced, have your office mail costs increased”, 44 pct said yes, and 16pct said it had decreased. When asked how the changes affected their Direct Mail costs, 63 pct said costs had increased, with 25 pct staying about the same.

A sharp contrast to the Royal Mail’s initial pitch to Postcomm which stated: “The great majority of our mail will not change in price and this means that most of our customers will not be greatly affected”.

Whatever the opinion of PIP, 65 pct of businesses still use first class post for their office mail, and 44 pct for direct mail. With the British stamp still being the preferred method of payment for 49 pct.

When asked, are you happy with the service you receive from the Royal Mail, 50 pct of business users said no. Despite this, when asked if they would think about using a different provider the majority of participants said yes, but was confused about the available suppliers.

With last month’s debate between Postcomm and the Royal Mail on possible reductions of deliveries to 5 days a week, we asked “How would this affect you?” 28 pct of our readers felt it could have a serious impact on their business; with 60 pct voting they would least like to loose Monday deliveries and 64 pct happy to loose Saturday.

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