Pierre Blayau, head of Geodis, the French logistics and transport group in which railway operator SNCF Participations is the main investor, has unveiled his strategy for the medium term.
Blayau, hinted that the country’s postal operator La Poste could figure in Geodis’ future plans as he estimated a net loss of between Eurol 40 million and Eurol 50 million for 2001 in view of restructuring costs.
One week before the Barcelona summit, leading industry associations from Germany and France have come together to call on the governments of their two nations to abandon their reluctance to reform and take the lead in pushing forward the flagging liberalization process within the European Union.
Read MoreInternational Post Corporation (IPC) members maintained their high-quality delivery performance for international letters last year, despite disruptions to air transport and security alerts following the events of September 11.
During 2001, an average of 92 per cent of European air mail letters reached their final destination within three days of posting. According to quality of service monitoring results just released by IPC’s UNEX system, more Postal operators are now meeting EU targets on mail streams where few, or no direct transport links are available. During 2001, over three-quarters of the 306 country-to-country streams monitored by UNEX were achieving at least 85 per cent
of deliveries within three days, compared with just one-third in 1994 when monitoring began, and one half in 1997.
The French Bollore Group, which embraces SDV and Delmas, the transport and logistics companies, posted a turnover of Eur 5.121 billion in the financial year 2001.
Read MoreThe French post office (La Poste) yesterday announced that it has embarked on a review and negotiation of the ways in which it will replace the huge number of employees who are due to retire from its workforce over the next 10 years.
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