Tag: Europe

An Post invests Euro1.6m in parcel plant expansion

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

A new €1.6m extension to An Post’s national parcel processing facility at Portlaoise Mails Centre was officially opened today by Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Noel Dempsey.

More than 20,000 parcels are processed at the Portlaoise hub each day, comprising parcel mail posted in Dublin and Leinster, as well as all incoming international parcels.

The 9000 sq ft extension to the mails centre brings to 43,000 sq ft the space devoted exclusively to parcel processing, an operation which involves tariff checking, barcoding, customs clearance (for international items) and sorting for onward dispatch and delivery. An Post chairperson Margaret McGinley said that the company had invested more than euro14m in the Portlaoise Mails Centre since it first opened in 1997 and more than Euro110m in the national mails infrastructure during the past 12 years.

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Bulgaria licenses first private postal services provider

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

Bulgaria has licensed domestic postal operator Tip Top Courier as the first private universal postal services provider, the country’s telecoms regulator, CRC, said on Monday.
“This market was worth 125 million levs (USD82 million/64 million euro) in 2005, which was a 24% annual increase. With the granting of a license to Tip Top Courier [the market] is entering the stage of competition,” CRC chairman Georgi Alexandrov told a news conference.
Tip Top Courier will launch universal postal services operations in January under the trademark T-Post. The company will invest some seven million levs in building its network by January 2009, Tip Top Courier executive officer Denka Dimitrova told the same news conference. Dimitrova said the investment will be financed through the company’s own funds and bank loans.
Bulgaria’s postal services market is likely to grow by another 24% this year, Alexandrov said. Postal services through couriers accounted for 60.8% of the total postal services market last year, according to data presented by Tip Top Courier chairman of the board of directors, Lachezar Kaparashev.

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Dutch TNT and UK Royal Mail in race for ABX Belgium Distribution

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

Dutch mail and express deliveries group TNT NV and UK rival Royal Mail are the two remaining bidders for ABX Belgium Distribution, Belgian De Tijd newspaper said on November 18, 2006.

The owner, Belgian railways SNCB/NMBS, aims to complete the deal within three weeks.

The EU competition authorities obliged NMBS to sell the unit by the end of 2006.

ABX Belgium Distribution is a market leader in the domestic parcel deliveries market. The unit has an annual revenue of 90 mln euro (USD 115.5 mln) and a 700-strong workforce. Furthermore, 650 trucks of third parties are running for the company.

ABX Belgium Distribution was earlier part of ABX Logistics Worldwide SA/NV (ABX), which was sold by NMBS to UK private equity firm 3i Group Plc and the management in August 2006. The deal included air cargo, sea cargo, customs, logistics and international transport activities of ABX Belgium.

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French La Poste and SNCF to set up 50/50 Joint Venture

Posted by | Nov 20, 2006 | |

French national post office La Poste and French national railway company SNCF will set up a 50/50 joint venture company to transport postal freight in Europe on high-speed trains, it was reported on November 20, 2006.
No financial details were disclosed.
The joint venture is expected to be operational at the end of 2008, the two companies said. The deal will enable La Poste to boost the development of its mail quality project, launched in 2004. It represents a total investment of 3.4 bln euro (USD 4.4 bln) until 2010 and aims at improving the speed of mail delivery.
Currently the postal freight uses three high-speed trains, covering eight delivery points between the logisitcs platforms in Paris, Macon and Cavaillon.
The two companies also said that they were studying a project for a high-speed train hub from the Paris airport Roissy Charles De Gaulle 2 (Roissy CDG2) which would make it possible to connect Strasbourg, Dijon, Rennes, Lyon, Bordeaux via Poitiers and Lille.

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Partnership delivers a winning performance

Posted by | Nov 17, 2006 | |

One of the UK’s mailroom experts has won a customer service award in partnership with insurance giant Royal & SunAlliance.

TNT Managed Services – a division of Britain’s leading business-to-business express delivery operators, TNT – collected top honours in the Customer Service category at the coveted British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.

Since 2004, TNT has been responsible for the management of all 16 Royal & Sun Alliance’s mailroom locations in the UK, as well providing an inter-branch mail distribution service covering 21 sites.

First-class standards in performance provided by TNT exceeded agreed performance indicator levels, prompting Royal & SunAlliance Facilities Management Service Manager Stuart Boardman to comment: “TNT have not only set a benchmark for the implementation and delivery of outsourced services, they also set a very high standard within our supply chain solutions.”

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