ABX Logistics has agreed to sell its French domestic parcel delivery business to its current MD, Jackques Caille. A company officeial told IFW that ABX Logistics France, which has been the focus of restructuring plans over the past 18 months or so under Cailles leadership, was still making losses but declined to comment on the scale of its financial difficulties.
Read MoreFrench deputies took a vote on Friday regarding a draft bill which would allow France’s postal services market, currently dominated by La Poste, to be opened to rival service providers by 2009. The bill would also allow the creation of a post office bank. The text was supported by the UMP-UDF coalition. It has yet to be voted by the Senate. If passed, the bill would end the monopoly of postal service operator La Poste on letters weighing more than 50g with effect from 2006.
Read MoreThe French national assembly was preparing to sit late into the night on Friday (January 22) so that MPs could finish their debate on the French government’s controversial bill to reform the nation’s postal services. Three days had been allocated for examination of the bill, which aims to incorporate into French law the 1997 and 2002 European Union directives on opening up the postal services market to competition. The debate has been held up, in particular, by the tabling of numerous amendments.
Read MoreFedEx Corp. said yesterday it was in talks with the French government about
using the country’s prestigious high-speed rail network to transport
packages and freight. FedEx, which uses Paris Charles de Gaulle airport as its main European hub, hopes the government will agree to link up the
high-speed TGV network to its facility, but a deal is likely to take years to negotiate, FedEx officials said.
French postal workers kicked off three days of strikes in the public sector Tuesday, as unions mount a challenge to the cautious liberalisation policies of President Jacques Chirac’s centre-right government. Some 300,000 staff were urged to stop work on a day that the National Assembly began debate on a bill to open the state-owned La Poste to outside competition in accordance with European Union directives. At mid-morning management reported that only 13 percent of workers were on strike, though the figure was higher in Paris.
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