Tag: Europe

Royal Mail's deficit cloud darkens

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

Opposition parties have rounded on the UK government over Royal Mail’s deepening financial crisis, as an exodus of big corporate clients heaped pressure on the firm to tackle its GBP5.6bn pensions deficit.

BT dropped Royal Mail in favour of TNT Post for a GBP90m contract, with UK energy supplier Centrica and the Carphone Warehouse quickly following suit – both choosing private suppliers.

In total Royal Mail lost out on contracts worth nearly GBP150m.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) became the first high profile department to turn its back on the Royal Mail and has since said it would not rule out dropping the firm for future contracts.

Alan Duncan, Conservative shadow trade, industry and energy secretary, quizzed the government in parliament over its failure to deal with the situation.

The government-owned former monopoly has struggled to retain business after postal services were fully opened to competition last year. Since then it’s lost more than 10% of the mail-handling market to private firms.

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France's TAT Express becomes Tatex

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

French B2B parcels carrier TAT Express has rebranded to become known simply by its previous standard abbreviation Tatex and is changing its logo and identity to reflect new company values – closer relationships with clients and a small and medium-sized enterprise “spirit”.

Tatex, which transports 19 million parcels a year and has an annual turnover of over EUR 150 million, was formed in 1976 by the TAT air company and has 1,300 staff, 800 vehicles, 34 branches, five regional transit centres and a national hub in southern Paris of 14,500 sqm.

La Poste subsidiary GeoPost sold the majority of TAT Express to XAAP Finances in 2005. The rebranding to Tatex will take place this year.

One of the first steps by Tatex has been to extend by one hour the cut-off time for deliveries, from 12.00 to 13.00, which came into effect on 1 January. The company’s web site is being modified to bring its product portfolio and timetables up to date.

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Tomasz Buras appointed as the new president of the DHL Express Poland

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

Tomasz Buras has been appointed as the new president of the Polish arm of DHL Express.

He is a former lecturer at Warsaw’s University of Technology and was operational manager at Ikea Hanim Poland. From 1994 to 2001 he was a director of Sony Poland for CEE logistics and also worked for P&O Trans European Polska. He has been connected with DHL since 2002, is married and has two children.

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Express mail and delivery firms diversifying in the Czech Republic

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

With the European and Czech market of postal services slated to be fully liberalized by 2009, the Czech state-owned post office Ceska posta (CP) continues broad remedies to withstand the impact of competition, which is driven by the market to boost services, increase quality and reduce prices.

“Within two years, Ceska posta will be a different company,” said Ivo Mravinac, the director of communications with CP. The ongoing changes are concentrated on two major levels — the internal restructuring of the company and the conversion into joint-stock company.

For the past couple of years, the Czech government harbored plans to privatize the company and finally last fall the board of trustees of CP charged company CEO Karel Kratina to work out the details of the transformation into a state owned joint-stock company. “There’s no time-schedule for the whole process or for its individual steps,” Mravinac said, adding that the final deadline is Jan. 1, 2009, when the Czech postal services market is to be fully liberalized, but that the company hopes to reach its target sooner.

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DHL UK first to use new sustainability reporting standard

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

DHL has released the first Sustainability Report for its operations in the UK. Prepared in accordance with the Transport and Logistics industry guidelines set out by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), makes this Report the first of its kind for the industry.

The Sustainability Report covers both the Express and Aviation divisions of DHL UK. It provides stakeholders with detailed information about the economic, environmental and social performance of DHL in the UK and the company’s aspirations for the future. The report includes information that is of particular relevance to the Transportation and Logistics industry and its customers, such as managing Health and Safety, managing the impacts of climate change from air and road transport, the handling of hazardous goods, road safety and managing noise in local communities.

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