La Poste, the French post office, is to recruit 3,000 temporary staff and call on 1,000 of its retired employees to back up services at its branches for the transition to the euro, scheduled for January 1 next year.
Read MoreBrussels-based Ziegler Group, which operates worldwide, recently acquired French transport and forwarding companies Trans Service, based in Rouen. Châtel Transports. headquartered in Raveux, and Bordeaux-based Societé de Transports. Transit et Magasinage (SUM), a wine storage and transport specialist.
Read MoreThe ‘contrat de plan’ signed in 1998 by French post office La Poste, which fixes the relationship between the State and the public operator, runs out on 1 January 2002.
Read MoreEsipost, the wholly owned subsidiary of the French post office La
Poste carved out of its e-commerce division to interface between its
various divisions and the external business world, is gearing up to
introduce a new set of products aimed at brick-and-mortar merchants
looking to sell online. Included are a suite of online financial
products and package tracking services.
Consignia, the rebranded UK post office, is following in the footsteps of French cousin La Poste in outsourcing its 40,000-vehicle fleet serving the Royal Mail and Parcelforce. It is likely that other UK large vehicle fleet operators will follow suit and decouple their non-core transport operations as haulage costs look set to rise. Lex Transfleet expects the outsource
trend to gather pace.
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