TNT Post, the Dutch postal service provider, which is also present on the German market, has announced that it plans to collaborate with the services sector union Ver.di to prevent the end of the mail monopoly for German postal operator Deutsche Post from leading simply to a cost war.
TNT Post and the union plan to press for working conditions to be subject to minimum standards.
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Post positions itself in the field of document digitalisation
The expansion-oriented strategy of Austrian Post will also continue in the year 2007. At the end of January, Austrian Post acquired a 51% shareholding in Scanpoint Europe.
The core business of Scanpoint Europe, headquartered in Waldbronn, Germany, is the secure, data protected digitalisation of documents. This acquisition enables Austrian Post to offer its large customers a new type of service, namely the electronic delivery of personal incoming mail. The digitalised information is then made available to the recipient in digital form, either on some form of storage media, via email or as a web archive file.
The acquisition will enable both firms to exploit synergies: the logistic know-how of Austrian Post combined with the digitalisation expertise of Scanpoint Europe will make it possible to simplify business processes.
Overall road freight revenues in Spain grew 7.6% last year to EUR 16.9 billion, with road express taking an increasing share of the market in line with the European trend, according to a new study by Madrid-based market researchers DBK.
Road express revenues have risen to over EUR 2 billion and now represent around 13% of total road freight income, up from 12.3% in 2004, DBK’s data indicates. The growth is a result of growing demand and rising tariffs.
The research, which looked at the 2004-2006 period, found that road express revenues were growing at a greater rate than the road freight market as a whole, reaching over EUR 2 billion in 2005 (+8.6%) and EUR 2.2 billion (based on the 2006 growth forecast for the Spanish express industry) last year, amounting to one-third of all express sector revenue in the country.
Read MoreRomanian courier services provider Cargus said its gross profit fell to 2.1 mln euro (USD2.73 mln) in 2006 from 2.5 mln euro (USD3.25 mln) reported in 2005.
Cargus’s 2006 turnover dropped below the value of 15.3 mln euro (USD19.9 mln) registered in 2005, due to higher investment last year, the company’s CEO Augustin Plesea said.
Cargus carried out a 2.5 mln euro investment project in 2006 to expand its vehicle fleet, acquire information technology (IT) equipment and finance promotion campaigns.
In 2007, Cargus expects its turnover to rise 45 pct on the year to 29 mln euro (USD37.73 mln).
Cargus (www.cargus.ro), set up in 1991, offers same day delivery, next day delivery, cash on delivery and declared value services.
In 2004, Cargus set up GeoPost Cargus, a joint venture with French-Turkish courier GeoPost-Yurtici Kargo, which offers international air express, air-road and road-based services on the domestic market.
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