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Posten Logistik acquires logistics company in Finland

Posted by | Sep 3, 2007 | |

Wholly-owned Posten subsidiary Posten Logistik acquires Suomen Logistiikkatalo in Finland. This strengthens Posten’s position within the Nordic region even further, and creates new opportunities for flows between the Nordic and Baltic regions and Russia.

The newly-acquired Finnish logistics company works in third-party logistics, and its customers deal in fast-moving consumer goods and spare parts. The new acquisition will make Posten Logistik one of the leading players within transport services and warehousing in Finland.

“Through the acquisition of Suomen Logistiikkatalo, we can offer a powerful alternative within third-party logistics and warehousing in the Finnish market,” says Henrik Höjsgaard, CEO of Posten Logistik. “It also means that we will strengthen our Nordic presence even further.”

More and more parcels and pallets are being sent internationally, and more and more companies require flexible, cross-border, cost-effective turnkey solutions. Through a strong presence in Finland, Posten Logistik is able to offer an expanded service and provide Nordic businesses with an excellent alternative in the Finnish market.

The acquisition of Suomen Logistiikkatalo in Finland strengthens Posten Logistik’s position within the Nordic region, and creates new opportunities for flows between the Nordic and Baltic regions and Russia. Posten’s Finnish operations are currently run through the subsidiaries DPD, HIT Finland and Sal-Trans.

Through its subsidiaries and the franchise network DPD, Posten Logistik already offers parcel, pallet and express services throughout the Nordic region. In 2007, Sweden’s Posten also set up a delivery network in Norway under the MyPack brand. The new delivery network gives Posten Logistik a new, powerful way of delivering parcels to Norwegian consumers.

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Time:matters takes on FRA express handling

Posted by | Sep 3, 2007 | |

TIME:matters is to replace Fraport Cargo Services as the handling agent for express and courier shipments at Frankfurt Airport’s CargoCity North.

FCS will continue to play a central role as key cooperation partner. time:matters now directly operates the handling of express and courier shipments; both for its own customers, as well as other logistics service providers (integrators and courier companies) and their respective customers.

“This provides time:matters, as the experts for courier, sameday and emergency logistics, with the highly interesting prospect of carrying out express and courier shipments handling at CargoCity North under its own responsibility and control,” said time:matters’ chief executive officer, Franz-Joseph Miller.

“The customers can be sure that our high service standards with regards to speed, reliability and flexibility, will also take effect in this additional service area – especially given the fact that we can completely rely on the competent and proven support of FCS.”

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Lufthansa-DHL airline applies for approval of German authorities

Posted by | Sep 3, 2007 | |

Lufthansa and DHL have filed for approval to set up the joint freight airline ‘Newco’, according to the German Federal Cartel Office.

The project, announced in June, is likely to launch in 2009 from Leipzig Halle airport. DHL has always been vocal about its intentions to expand its cooperation with Lufthansa. Lufthansa Cargo said that it will announce more details soon.

A joint network has been operated between Europe, Asia and the US since March 2004, and was to expand through Leipzig/Halle airport, where DHL Express is moving its main European hub later this year.

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PIN, TNT Germany create employers' association to fend off German postal minimum wages

Posted by | Sep 3, 2007 | |

PIN Group AG and TNT NV’s TNT Post Germany have founded a new employers’ association to scupper a minimum wage of 9-10 eur sought by rival Deutsche Post World Net AG, PIN’s chief executive Guenter Thiel told Focus magazine.
He said the existing employers’ association headed by former Deutsche Post management board member Wolfhard Bender does not represent the whole industry’s interest, but only those of Deutsche Post.
‘I’m pro minimum wages, but (I’m) contra a dictate by monopoly company Deutsche Post,’ TNT Post Germany’s chief executive Mario Frusch told Focus magazine.
The two companies also plan to include publishing houses in the new association, whose distribution networks Deutsche Post’s competitors could use in the future.
Luxembourg-based PIN Group is 71.6 pct-owned by Axel Springer.

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Deutsche Post mulling free newspaper launch

Posted by | Sep 2, 2007 | |

German mail and logistics group Deutsche Post is planning to launch a free newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) said.

A Deutsche Post spokesman told Reuters on Sunday that such a freesheet would be “a legitimate idea” but that “there are no concrete plans at present.”

The European Union wants to liberalize the postal services market in the 27-nation bloc from 2009 and Deutsche Post is under pressure to find new sources of revenue as its national monopoly on letter deliveries ends.

The German government plans to end its last remaining monopoly — delivering letters under 50 grams — from the start of 2008.

The FAS said Deutsche Post could launch a free newspaper soon.

Earlier attempts to launch free newspapers in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, have met with stiff opposition from the country’s established newspaper publishers.

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