Tag: Germany

Microlise, DHL and Aeroscout pioneer new monitoring solution

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

DHL in partnership with Microlise and AeroScout, has developed a dynamic new system for the pharmaceutical industry which enables the real-time monitoring of product shipment temperatures throughout an extended supply chain using RFID sensors.

DHL, Microlise and AeroScout partnered with a leading healthcare company to develop a system that will help customers better meet temperature compliance regulations set within the pharmaceutical industry. With this system, we will have full real-time visibility of the location and temperature of it’s the pharmaceutical shipments throughout the supply chain, through a web browser linked to the Microlise Transport Management Centre (TMC) software. The TMC enables real time tracking of the vehicle position along with the temperature indication from the Wi-Fi-Based AeroScout Active RFID tags which are used to monitor the shipments.

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Deutsche Post plans to cut 800-1000 jobs at mail operations

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post AG is planning to cut 800-1000 jobs at its mail operations after merging its parcel business with the mail division, according to Handelsblatt, citing a company spokesman.

The job cuts will affect those in the personnel division, controlling and IT, the source added.

He said there will be no mandatory job cuts but that the reductions would be achieved by offering other positions elsewhere within the group.

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DHL in online shipping deal with Germany's 1&1

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

DHL Express Germany has signed a cooperation deal with internet service company 1&1 Internet AG for online trading. Operators of 1&1-hosted “e-shops” can now use DHL for their shipping requirements.

With this new service, 1&1 is expanding its all-inclusive offer for small businesses and the self-employed. The entire e-shop, including order management and goods transportation, can now be handled through one single platform, DHL Express said in a statement.

“The cooperation with DHL enables us to offer a complete solution for the whole process chain”, said Andreas Gauger, CEO of 1&1 Internet AG.

E-shop operators can print out DHL parcel labels, track shipments online and offer customers the option of using a DHL Packstation as an alternative delivery address.

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German postal workers protest market opening

Posted by | May 14, 2007 | |

Some 30,000 German postal workers protested in Berlin on Monday against the planned opening of the country’s postal services market to competition on January 1, 2008.

The Deutsche Post workers came from across the country to protest against opening the local market, a year before the planned liberalisation of the entire European postal market.

A spokeswoman for Germany’s Ver.di trade union, Cornelia Hass, said it was demanding that the German market be opened at the same time as those in the rest of the continent.

Ver.di has warned that doing so earlier could lead to the loss of jobs.
Deutsche Post holds a monopoly on the delivery of letters weighing less than 50 grammes.

After earlier waves of postal liberalisation in 1997 and 2002, the markets for the delivery of packages and letters weighing more than that are already open to competition.

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Postbank growth continues

Posted by | May 14, 2007 | |

In the first quarter of 2007, Deutsche Postbank AG improved further. Despite fiercer competition, it generated a pre-tax profit of EUR222 million, 7.2% up year-on-year. Adjusted for one-off costs, e.g. from the integration of BHW and VAT increase, the pre-tax profit rose by 13.9% to EUR246 million. The cost-income ratio improved by 1.8 percentage points to 69.4% against the comparative quarter in 2006. In the classical banking business, i.e. without Transaction Banking, the ratio declined by as much as 2.5 percentage points to 67.3%. The return on equity before tax rose from 16.1% to 17.0%. In the first three months, the Postbank Group gained more than 260,000 new customers, 17,000 more than in the first quarter of the previous year. It is thus on track to reach its objective of a million new customers in 2007.

The balance-sheet related revenues (net interest income, net trading income and net income from investment securities) moved up by 4.0% to EUR674 million in comparison to the equivalent quarter in the previous year. Net interest income rose by 5.2% to EUR543 million. Net trading income and net income from investment securities at EUR61 million and EUR70 million respectively remained stable against the equivalent quarter of the previous year.

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