Tag: France

La Poste publish UPS results

Posted by | Apr 30, 2008 | |

La Poste has just published the results concerning the quality of the universal postal service for 2007 on its website.

The main findings pertain to:
– routing times for the principle postal services (First Class items, Colissimo counter services, international mail, etc.);
– accessibility to postal items at collection and pick-up outlets;
– the number of complaints filed, and the manner in which they were processed.

These indicators have been the focus of work performed jointly by La Poste and ARCEP since 2006. They are based in particular on a public consultation launched by the Authority in 2007 concerning user demands for information on the quality of the universal postal service. This consultation helped reveal that a need for new indicators was emerging: high expectations of information on registered mail items and on Colissimo counter services, and the publication of information on the transport of periodicals.

Several new universal postal service indicators were added last year:
– on the number of letter boxes and their location, based on last collection time;
– on delivery timeframes for periodicals;
– and on consumer satisfaction with the speed and efficiency with which La Poste processes complaints.

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trans-o-flex puts European network on new footing

Posted by | Apr 29, 2008 | |

trans-o-flex have laid a new foundation for their European distribution network Eurodis. “We have re-launched Eurodis GmbH, the management company of our specialist 21-country network,” explains Klaus J. Heinz, Executive Board Chairman. “Now we are in a position to welcome our key international partners as shareholders with similar rights and obligations and to involve them in the development of the network.” Redur Lozano, the Spanish Eurodis partner, has already taken this up and acquired a 20 pct stake in Eurodis GmbH. At present, trans-o-flex and the Austrian Post each hold 40 pct of the stock, but they are prepared to halve their holdings to take other partners on board.

While other international networks are usually managed and controlled from a single national perspective, Eurodis can become the first truly international alliance thanks to the equitable shareholding structure, according to Heinz. “Our target is to offer Spanish solutions in Spain, English ones in England and French solutions in France.” Equally, the cross-border ownership of shares serves to reinforce the partners’ mutual ties.

In parallel to the changes on the capital side, the role and functions of Eurodis GmbH are growing. Apart from its coordination aspect, it will in future also manage and control the international alliance. It will manage the partners and the financial adjustments between them, known as clearing, and be responsible for international shipment track and trace and the further development of it.

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France to allow post office to sell insurance

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

France is set to authorise post office operator La Poste to sell property insurance through its banking subsidiary, Banque Postale, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday.

“I am authorising the post office to set up insurance mechanisms, insurance services which will allow all of us to insure our car or our house with the post office,” she told France 3 television in an interview.

The authorisation comes as the government prepares to end the monopoly held by the post office and savings banks on so-called Livret A accounts, one of France’s most popular savings products.

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Geodis supports SNCF takeover bid

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Geodis has decided to recommend the EUR 600 million takeover bid from rail operator SNCF to its shareholders. The deal will create Europe’s fourth-largest freight group, including a major express business in France.

The Geodis board said the offer was a fair price and that becoming part of the SNCF group would strengthen Geodis. It unanimously recommended that shareholders should accept the EUR 135 per share offer.

SNCF, which already holds 42.37 pct of Geodis’ share capital and 45.79 pct of voting rights, announced in early April it would offer EUR 600 million to buy full control of Geodis.

SNCF plans to combine Geodis, with 2007 revenues of EUR 4.8 billion, its rail freight division and several smaller transport subsidiaries, into a new group with 2008 revenues of some EUR 8 billion and about 50,000 employees. The new company would include Geodis Calberson, one of the leading express and parcels operators in France.

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DHL: big relocation

Posted by | Apr 25, 2008 | |

Within three days the newly relocated DHL changed the volume statistics at Bratislava airport. Within 72 hours this international air express transportation company delivered to and from the airport more goods than had been transported via the airport in three months.

Everything changed on March 31. As of this day DHL flights fly from Bratislava rather than Vienna. This change was a part of another major change regarding DHL air logistics in Europe.

Its transloading and sorting hub at Brussels airport was overloaded and could not expand anymore. Therefore Deutsche Post World Net, the owner of DHL made a radical decision in 2004.

In spite of trade unions’ objections, a strike and political pressure in Brussels it found a greenfield site close to Leipzig airport and invested 300 mil. EUR in a new European hub.

It built a 400-metre warehouse with a fully automated sorting line that can handle 100-thousand packages and letters within an hour as well as a terminal for 60 aircraft, a hangar, fuel tanks, parking for trucks for deliveries to Germany and neighbouring countries, a railway terminal and offices.

These are unloaded quickly, sorted and within a few hours the deliveries are sent on to their destinations by plane or truck. And this is repeated each night: two thousand tons of freight. One of the planes delivers the freight for Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic at five o’clock in the morning. But it no longer lands in Vienna but in Bratislava.

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