The German finance ministry will propose this week a key legislative change that would remove the remaining obstacle to the sale of a majority stake in Deutsche Post, the country’s post and logistics group.
Read MoreEuropean Union regulators are set to find Deutsche Post World Net, the global mail, express and logistics group, guilty of unlawfully disrupting international mail bound for Germany. The European Commission is expected to issue a ruling, possibly as early as next week, ordering the German company to stop its action. It may also cap its three year investigation by imposing a fine
Read MoreDeutsche Post (Switzerland) AG, a fully owned subsidiary of Europe’s largest postal
service provider DPWN, is a public limited company under Swiss law and specialises in parcel logistics. It was founded in autumn 1991 by the merger of two Swiss parcel logistics operators, quickstep parcel service AG and Qualipac AG.
Under the product name Swisspack, Deutsche Post (Switzerland) Euro Express offers a nationwide, timedefined parcel delivery service for consignments up to 31.5 kg in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The parcels are delivered by a fleet of nearly 400 vehicles via several modern automated hubs (we have such hubs at Pratteln, Regensdorf and Altishofen, for example).
With another of our products, the Europremium service, shipments (import I export) of up to 800 kg per pallet are delivered to and from Switzerland to some twenty European countries.
When we entered this market in 1992, door-to-door pick-up services and a track&trace system for parcels were still completely new ideas. Since then, we have continued to refine our IT systems.
Van Gend & Loos Euro Express (owned by Deutsche Post) is selling its bulk freight business, Nedlloyd Road Cargo, to Wijngaard Natie of Belgium. This allows Van Gend to concentrate on its core small parcerls business.
Wijngaard Natie’s turnover will now grow from USD23m to USD28m. It was founded in 1864 and is a medium-sized port logistics company based in Antwerp.
Ver.di, the union which represents workers of Germany’s postal
service, it threatening Deutsche Post (DP) with strikes following
the announcement that DP intends to cut 3000 jobs, a plan which it
rejects. It announced that its works councils will no longer approve
overtime by its workers, who number around 80,000.
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