Tag: France

La Poste organize first Euromed Postal Conference in Marseille

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

The first Euromed Postal Conference was held during the 9th and 10th July in Marseille.

La Poste Group was the main organiser of the conference in partnership with eight other postal operators: Algeria, Egypt, Spain, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and Tunisia. Euromed Postal gathered postal-sector players from countries across the European Union and around the southern and eastern Mediterranean.

The main topics discussed during the two day conference were:

• improving postal-service operation and efficiency to support development and promote economic integration across the Euro-Med area,

• promoting the key role that postal services as a whole play in their countries,

• encouraging cooperation.

This Euro-Med convention stems from the Barcelona process and included the 27 countries of the European Union alongside the 10 countries skirting the southern and eastern Mediterranean. Libya attended as an observer and Mauritania were invited as a ‘special guest.’

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Chronopost opens EUR 12m new Lyon-Corbas hub

Posted by | Jul 5, 2007 | |

Chronopost built the EUR 12 million centres, where 150 employees will work. The company expects to handle 20% of its national volume, 50,000 parcels per day.

Chronopost is also building a EUR 50 million main national hub at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, opened at the beginning of next year.

The express operator is significantly increasing the density of its national metropolitan network this year, basing it on 60 local centers and five new hubs at Montpellier, Poitier and Roissy (Charles De Gaulle airport), as well as Corbas and Chilly-Mazarin.

Hub Key facts
Area : 6,400 m2
Capacity: 7,500 boxes per hour
Items in transit: 50,000 boxes, 620 rolls, 250 pallets.
Number of vehicles: 130
Investment in the regions: Euro 49 million in 2006

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TNT gets on its trike to deliver to French city centres

Posted by | Jul 3, 2007 | |

BeCycle delivery tricycle TNT Express is turning to tricycles to deliver express shipments to French city centers and cut its environmental impact.

Nine months of tests in Lyon had shown all the advantages of this means of distribution in terms of reliability, efficiency, service quality and image, TNT Express France said. The three-wheeled delivery bikes were an ecological alternative for deliveries that reduced pollution and noise in city centre areas, it noted.

In Lyon, the express company is currently using four electrically-powered cycles in TNT colours and operated by drivers of the “BeCycle” delivery company to distribute documents and small parcels to about 150 business customers. TNT will expand the Lyon project by acquiring more BeCycle tricycles and adding more districts to the tricycle delivery rounds in October.

At the same time, TNT will introduce a similar service in eight other French cities over the next few months. In total, nine cities are expected to be served by 20 tricycles by the end of 2007.

Depending on the location, TNT will use BeCycle and “La Petite Reine”, which has been providing delivery in Paris since June 2007 and in Rouen. Service started in Bordeaux in July, Nancy, Grenoble and Dijon will gain tricycles in September, to be followed by Montpellier and Rennes at the end of the year.

The initiative is included in the international action plan of TNT which is aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.

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Adrexo and Altadis to develop a network of parcel collection points in France

Posted by | Jul 2, 2007 | |

Adrexo, the first licensed mail competitor to La Poste, is setting up a B2C parcels service to take on the French post office’s ColiPoste subsidiary and other parcel companies in the fast-growing market segment. It is also developing its postal delivery services.

Adrexo has signed a deal with the French-Spanish tobacco group Altadis to develop a network of parcel collection points through the latter’s nationwide network of tobacconist kiosks and stores, the Les Echos business newspaper reported last Tuesday.

The new service will start in January 2008 with two important launch customers, cosmetics group Yves Rocher and mail-order retailer Quelle France, the newspaper said. Quelle previously used ColiPoste for home delivery and Kiala’s Point Relais network for parcel drop-offs at retail outlets, according to information on its website.

Adrexo, a subsidiary of Ouest France, with a turnover of 600 million euros. Adrexo is a major player in unaddressed mail, and entered the addressed mail market in 2004. It claims to reach 95% of letterboxes in France. Adrexo now operates in the mail market above 50g, in direct mail, magazine and catalogue distribution, unaddressed advertising mail, and address management. In 2006 Adrexo delivered 25 million items.

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Ciblex: “H Proximity” service

Posted by | Jul 1, 2007 | |

Ciblex structured the “H Proximity” network in 2006. “H Proximity” involves 3,400 local computerized branches where packages are available by 8:00 a.m. the next day: 3000 tobacco shops, 300 PartSpeed Sites with 3,200 locked boxes, 100 PUDO2 points (network made up of Ciblex branches and partner drop-off points).

With 80 pct of the French population less than 15 minutes from a point of delivery, this network offers unique geographical coverage. It has a wide range of business hours (some branches are open on Sundays) and even 24/7 access for PartSpeed sites (locked boxes).

The computer system makes real time tracking possible with verification of the correct allocation of the correct package at the correct local branch.

In addition, secured package pick-up by the recipient is controlled by a personalized badge system.

Recipients (technicians, traveling sales representatives, medical visitors, traveling professionals, artisans, or individuals) are informed of the availability of their packages in real time by SMS. They can pick up the package at their chosen day and time, within the time limit determined by each package shipper.

The innovation lies in the proximity and accessibility of the network, but especially and above all in the feedback.

The order can be tracked online directly on the merchant’s Web site. Each month, 40,000 packages pass through the “H Proximity” network, which is now used by more than 40 Ciblex customer companies, for example Nextiraone (telephony), Fujitsu Siemens, (information technology), Diagnostica Stago (medical), etc.

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