Payments of the municipal property tax ICI carried out via the website of Italy’s state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane registered a considerable increase, totalling 75,000 in the first half of 2005. In the year 2004, on-line ICI payments totalled 57,000.
Read MoreItalian railway operator Trenitalia, in collaboration with DHL, the logistics and express delivery business of Germany’s Deutsche Post AG, will launch a new service called Easybag, which will allow its clients to travel comfortably without heavy luggage, it was reported on July 11, 2005. With the new service it will be possible to send the luggage separately beforehand and to take it back once the final destination is reached.
Read MoreVittorio Mincato, chairman of the state-owned post office company Poste Italiane SpA, said the management is working to ensure the group’s privatisation next year. Speaking on the sidelines of a conference, Mincato said that the economy minister Domenico Siniscalco is expected to give indications regarding the company’s privatisation in the 2006 budget.
Read MoreTNT Logistics Central & Eastern Europe is the new logistics partner for the pan-European spare parts logistics of MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG, Europe’s leading manufacturer of commercial vehicles. As part of the European Logistics Concept, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG is restructuring its entire European spare parts logistics operation. The future distribution of fast moving goods will occur through six regional warehouses (ELCs). TNT Logistics will be responsible for the development and operation of the three ELCs in Italy, the UK and Northern Germany as well as the transport of spare parts in Italy, the UK, Northern Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium. The transport services essentially comprise overnight delivery of urgent orders and same-day deliveries. The overall concept will accelerate the delivery of spare parts to the European workshops and reduce the MAN Group’s stocks.
Read MoreIt’s been a while in coming but Fortec says its pallet service to Europe brings a genuinely new service to the export market as well as to the network’s members.
Fortec, the pallet network owned by French giant Geodis, was launching its new pan-European link to its licensees at a conference on Wednesday this week. Managing director Rod Abrahams, speaking to Motor Transport in advance of the conference, said the Fortexport service will be unique in offering daily departures plus guaranteed delivery times, for example: 48 hours to Germany, Benelux and the northern half of France; 72 hours to the rest of France and parts of Italy.
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