Tag: Hungary

Magyar Posta to spend EUR 4.3 m on new bikes

Posted by | Jan 2, 2008 | |

The Hungarian Postal Service (Magyar Posta) is to spend HUF 1.1 billion (EUR 4.34 m) to buy nearly 4,800 bicycles and 30 bicycle trailers, mfor.hu has reported on Wednesday. The price includes maintenance services and also occasional repair jobs for five years.

The public procurement tender was won by Gyõr-based (northwest Hungary) Cronopont Kft. with an offer of net HUF 1,097 million. The other bidder and runner-up was Debrecen-based (eastern Hungary) Piremon Kht. with a HUF 1,167 m offer.

The winner is to deliver 640 bikes (with option for further 245) and 4,148 bikes (with an option for further 1,676) and 30 bicycle trailers to Magyar Posta. The contract also includes maintenance for five years and repairs up to HUF 150 m.

Tamás Tomecskó, spokesman for Magyar Posta, told local newswire MTI that Cronopont would deliver KRPAN bicycles, which are manufactured in Slovenia and are already used by the postal services in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Estonia. An order by Finland’s Post is also underway and KRPAN said there might be an interest for its product from France.

The highest total weight allowed on the bicycle is 200 kilograms and the bike – with full equipment – weighs around 25-28 kg.

The frame of the KRPAN bicycle is made of aluminous tubes, with a special temperature-resistant layer. The weight of the frame amounts 2.2 kg. Additional reinforcements ensure a greater load capacity, safer ride and longer usage. 26” frame allows the bicyclist to get on and off the bicycle very easily. Furthermore it allows the construction of the rear hub with inner gears. The shape of the rear of the bicycle gives the opportunity to construct the hub without, or with three inner gears.

The front and the rear carriers are of steel construction and are fixed on special holders on the frame. In the case of a fall, the carrier protect the bicyclist and the carried goods from possible damage. The rear carriers have a serial manufacture of connections for a trolley.

Tomecskó said the company would have regular one-speed and three-speed bicycles with Shimano Nexus hubs.

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Time:matters opens new branch office in Poland

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

German same-day express and emergency logistics provider time:matters has opened its third European branch office in Warsaw following the offices in Zurich and Vienna as part of its internationalization strategy under which it aims to achieve European market leadership within a few years.

Due to its location, Poland provides an essential link between the established Western European industrialized countries and the emerging economic nations of the former Eastern Bloc with a substantial market potential, time:matters said in a statement.

The new time:matters branch in Warsaw is staffed with local logistics experts who are not only well familiar with the Polish market, but also with the specific express logistics needs of companies based in other Eastern European countries, for example in the Ukraine or Hungary, it pointed out.

time:matters’ services now incorporate Polish companies into the company’s international logistics network that encompasses around 400 destinations in 90 countries. Customers benefit from extremely short processing times for the transport of their products to other economic centres. In addition, customers benefit from authorized accelerated customs clearance and options such as on-site pick-up and delivery, time:matters added.

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Austrian Post Wants to Invest in Bulgaria

Posted by | Nov 28, 2007 | |

Austrian postal operator ‘Oesterreichische Post’ wants to get into Romanian, Bulgarian and Bosnian market in the coming 15 months, Reuters informed, cited by money.bg.
We want to set up a network in the fragmented South-Eastern European market, company’s Chief Financial Officer Rudolf Jettmar said on Tuesday.

We want to fill in our blank spots in Bosnia, Bulgaria and Romania, Jettmar added.

He also specified that the postal operator is aiming to take over private operators working in parcel delivery or distribution of advertising.

‘Oesterreichische Post’ has spent 210 million EUR on takeovers in the first 3 quarters of 2007. The Austrian Post is already present in Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia.

Osterreichische Post AG was founded on March 3, 1999 as a subsidiary of Post and Telekom Austria. Its core business activities are provision of postal and parcel services as well as handling of financial business in cooperation with BAWAG P.S.K., a partner of many years.

The Austrian Post has a sales network that is unique in Austria. With comprehensive investments in modernization of post offices and the entire logistics, the business will continue to focus on customer needs and consistently move forward on its way from a public agency to a modern service company.

New products and services will not only help ensure national market leadership in future, but shall also pave the way to international activities.

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Hungarian competition office fines Magyar Posta and Lapker

Posted by | Nov 22, 2007 | |

The Competition Office (GVH) has penalised the state-owned postal service Magyar Posta and regional periodical distributor Lapker Ft 468 million (USD 2.71 milion) apiece, after it proved that the two companies had agreed not to enter each other’s markets.

The cartel began in 1998, when Magyar Posta sold its regional wholesale distribution service to Lapker. The regional distributor agreed that it would not venture into periodical distribution formerly controlled by Magyar Posta, which in return agreed to opt out of wholesale distribution to news sellers. The agreement was cancelled in 2005.

Magyar Posta asserted that it will bring a legal action to challenge the ruling.

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Hungarian competition office fines Magyar Posta, Lapker

Posted by | Nov 22, 2007 | |

The Competition Office (GVH) has penalised the state-owned postal service Magyar Posta and regional periodical distributor Lapker Ft 468 million apiece, after it proved that the two companies had agreed not to enter each other’s markets.

The cartel began in 1998, when Magyar Posta sold its regional wholesale distribution service to Lapker. The regional distributor agreed that it would not venture into periodical distribution formerly controlled by Magyar Posta, which in return agreed to opt out of wholesale distribution to news sellers. The agreement was cancelled in 2005.

Magyar Posta asserted that it will bring a legal action to challenge the ruling.

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