Tag: Germany

PIN picks up Berlin city mail contract

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

prestigious mail contract from the Berlin city government.

PIN Mail, its Berlin-based subsidiary, has retained the Berlin contract following a tender, the company announced. The contract runs for 12 months with an option to extend it for a further year up to a maximum of three years.

PIN will deliver some 28 million letters a year covering all official documents up to a weight of 1kg. The contract is worth EUR 12.6 million in annual revenues.

“The renewed contract for PIN confirms the confidence of the state of Berlin in the quality of our service,” said Axel Stirl, managing director of PIN Mail. The company employs 1,000 staff in Berlin.

The news follows criticism by Deutsche Post chairman Klaus Zumwinkel of low wages at rival mail firms such as PIN Group and TNT Post. PIN Group chief executive Günter Thiel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview that he expected other German cities to follow the example of Berlin. In contrast, a Deutsche Post spokesman played down the importance of the Berlin contract, the newspaper added.

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TNT Express import service available to120 countries

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

TNT has expanded its worldwide import service to 120 countries and plans to extend it to cover more of the globe.

The number of countries covered by the Import Service has risen to 120 with the addition of Malawi and New Caledonia, TNT Express Germany said in a statement. Source markets served include China, India, Brazil and Russia.

Under the service, customers can import documents, parcels and freights with minimum administration with agreed transit times and pay standardized prices in euros. TNT handles the shipment from collection, transport and customs clearance through to final delivery.

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Fedex quits Frankfurt

Posted by | Aug 14, 2007 | |

U.S. integrator FedEx will cease their Frankfurt flight operations and move traffic to Cologne/Bonn airport instead.
The move will be taken in spring 2010 and include 60 weekly flights.

Reason for doing so is the night flight ban Frankfurt’s airport company Fraport AG wants to impose by 2011 when runway number four will be ready and go into service.

Closing of Rhein/Main from midnight till 5:00 am is strongly backed by the local Hesse politicians.

Governor Herr Koch promised the public to shut down continental Europe’s busiest airport during night times as compromise for building an additional runway that will trigger more traffic and thus assault the vicinity of Rhein/Main.

Now FedEx however pulled the emergency brake by quitting Frankfurt and moving to Cologne.

Fedex announced the building of a new sorting center for 140 million euros that will open up its gates by 2010 and be exclusively utilized by FedEx.

While Cologne/Bonn airport invests 70 million euros the U.S. package giant promised to pay the other half for equipping the facility with a state-of-the-art sorting systems. Garvens further pointed out that he intends to renew the license for night flights beyond 2015 when the current allowance for as many as 36 nightly operations expires.

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TNT Express Germany expands its Customer Contact Center

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

The CCC inauguration TNT Express Germany has relocated its Customer Contact Center from Dansdorf to Bad Godesberg in Bonn due to a continuously growing workforce. The centre handles about 4,000 customer calls a day from across Germany.

The new Customer Contact Center (CCC) comprises 2,500 sqm which is 800 sqm more than the old location. The call centre currently has 140 employees and this number is expected to increase in 2008.

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Deutsche Post in uproar over planned market changes

Posted by | Aug 9, 2007 | |

At the end of this year, the remains of Germany’s postal monopoly are slated to be fully dismantled. But Deutsche Post says it faces a less-than-level playing field and unfair competition on the open market.

This means that starting in 2008, Finland’s postal system, for example, can expand into Germany, where the Finnish companies can concentrate on lucrative big-city markets. While facing competition from abroad in the cities, Deutsche Post will also be left to deliver mail to German rural regions — a costlier and more difficult service to provide. If Deutsche Post wants to deliver mail in Finland, however, it will be obliged to fork over 20 percent of its turnover to the Finnish state.

It is that kind of scenario, what Deutsche Post calls a very uneven playing field that is causing uproar at the former mail monopoly. The German mail carrier has a legal obligation to provide universal service, covering routes that are money making as well as those that are not.

Since the partial break up of the German postal monopoly in 1998, Germany’s governing post and telecommunications body has granted some 1,000 business licenses for delivering mail. Unlike employees at Deutsche Post, the mail carriers for these start-ups are often part-time or temporary workers, who don’t enjoy the job security or compensation rates of Deutsche Post employees.

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