Tag: Europe

Ciblex – Key Figures

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

Key figures:

Ciblex France

o 2005/2006 turnover: EUR 126 m
o 760 staff members
o 80,000 parcels delivered every day
o 1500 technical operations carried out every day
o A network of 200 technical operators covering France
o 17 agencies and 92 technical depots guarantee complete nationwide coverage
o 3400 local delivery points for parcel pick-up
o A warehouse storage capacity of 39,000m2
o 700 sub-contractors bound to Ciblex France by a Quality charter: “Référentiel exactitude” (exactness standards)
o 36,000 towns covered in France
o A connection with a reliable European express network with partners in every country

Ciblex Belgium

o 2005/2006 turnover: EUR 13.6 m
o 4500 parcels and 40,000 letters delivered daily
o 42 staff members
o A central platform at Zaventem and an agency in Liège
o A warehouse storage capacity of 1800m2
o 60 sub-contractors

Ciblex Holland
o 2005/2006 turnover: €0.9 m
o An agency in Utrecht
o A network of 10 delivery vehicles

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UK Postmen may deliver strike next month

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

The first national postal strike in more than ten years could cripple services as early as next month as the Communication Workers Union prepares to mount a strike ballot this week.

The union’s postal executive is expected to ratify a strike ballot later today or tomorrow as it meets to discuss Royal Mail’s plans for a pay freeze with only lump sums of Pounds 600 available if employees change their ways of working.

The last time that a strike ballot was mounted, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) narrowly lost a vote in favour. However, then Royal Mail had offered a 14 per cent pay increase over three years.

A strike at Royal Mail would come as the group is preparing to announce a large fall in profits for the year to the end of March. Its interim profits fell 86 per cent to Pounds 22 million and the organisation has lost more business since then.

Industrial action could also put Royal Mail on a collision course with the industry regulator if a strike causes problems for rival operators and if it is thought that Royal Mail could have averted disruption. Royal Mail’s rivals tend to use the postal organisation for the final-mile delivery of the mail that they handle because they need its infrastructure. They could try to seek damages against the organisation if their services are disrupted because of a strike at Royal Mail.

Royal Mail has set out a 22-point plan to reduce costs by Pounds 350 million this year as it struggles to improve its productivity. The company is investing more than Pounds 1 billion in automation and is expected to cut up to 30 per cent of jobs -nearly 50,000 -when new equipment is installed. Its investment is coming from a Pounds 3.9 billion rescue package from the Government that was agreed in February.

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Quality of service: Awards for Belarus, Germany and Hungary

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

The postal operators of Belarus, Germany and Hungary were today awarded for their quality of service management results.

The UPU certification programme, which was adopted in 2003, rewards postal operators that apply quality management procedures in their postal structures, guarantee a particularly high standard in their international mail service, and actively participate in quality improvement programmes.

The programme, which evaluates quality on the basis of values other than speed and regularity, provides a level playing field for all Posts to apply for certification on an equal footing, irrespective of their infrastructures and level of development.

These three countries now join the six that have already won awards (Ukraine, Jordan, Tunisia, Denmark, Eritrea and Switzerland).

According to Mr. Laszló SZIVI, Vice-President of Magyar Posta, this award represents not only “International recognition of the efforts made by its postal enterprise to achieve the standards set by the UPU, but is also an accolade from the postal community to the Hungarian operator for meeting the growing needs of customers and investing in its structures and staff, in order to provide a quality service”. The programme “Presents customers with a very positive brand image of the Post”, asserts Laszló SZIVI, adding, “I urge all postal operators to apply for certification”.

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Wind turbine to power IRIS mail routing platform

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

Mail Handling International are to announce the commissioned installation of a state of the art Wind Turbine to power its IRIS mail routing platform. The energy offset turbine sited on the roof of MHI’s UK HQ will on windy days generate 125% of the power required to run IRIS!

Gary Barnett, MHI Group Operations Director, was delighted to emphasise that
“Routing mail efficiently with IRIS has been the key to MHI’s rapid growth and success, now running profiles and cleaning data is also carbon neutral…”

Gary added “At MHI we are always looking to improve our post handling efficiencies and this is just one of a number of initiatives underway for 2007” MHI’s CEO Paul Brown is enthusiastic to point out “The success of IRIS has allowed MHI to once again re-invest in the future of the business, the wind turbine will power all of our processing servers and contribute to the overall efficiency of the business as we rapidly grow to meet client’s mail routing needs”

Paul added “Visitors to the Triangle World Mail Awards 21-23 May in London will be able to experience the routing efficiency of IRIS first hand regardless of whether the wind is blowing!” www.mailawards.com.

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UPN opens new markets with launch of Micro Pallet service

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

UPN has launched a new level of service for the UK market, to help bridge the gap between parcel and palletized freight sectors.

The new Micro Pallet service is available from more than 60 national UPN depots from the 1st May 2007, and will open up a number of new market opportunities for UPN and its members.

The new service from UPN allows customers to ship pallets of up to 150 kilos anywhere in the UK on a next day or timed service for around 25 per cent less than the cost of a full sized pallet. Users of the new service can ship their freight on standard 1.2m by 0.8m pallets, with a height of up to 0.6 meters.

Customers will be provided with the same high quality service provided by the UPN network. Earlier in 2007, UPN also announced the implementation of a real time signature capture system, using the latest hand held XDA technology. This is provided as standard with the micro pallet service, giving users access to the kinds of service levels that used to be the preserve of the parcel market. They will be able to move into new markets, with improved customer service levels and considerable reductions in the cost of logistics.

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