Tag: La Poste

DPD Russia launches new express delivery service and opens new branch

Posted by | Aug 4, 2008 | |

DPD Russia has extended its service range with a new express delivery option “DPD 13:00” for time-definite shipments. In addition, the company continues to expand its regional network with the opening of a new depot in Orenburg, close to Kazakhstan.

DPD has introduced a new time-definite service within Russia for express parcels and heavy shipments to be delivered by 13:00 of a certain day defined by the customer. The delivery can be made from Moscow to major Russian cities including St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kazan, Kaluga, Krasnodar, Nishnij Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saratov and Jaroslavl. The company plans to extend its geographical coverage of the service.

On request, urgently required information on the delivery of shipments sent with the DPD 13:00, DPD Avia, DPD BIZPAK, DPD Classic and DPD Economy services can be sent via sms directly to the customer’s mobile phone for free.

The investment in the new 1,400 sqm facility located in the southern part of Orenburg exceeded RUB 1 million (EUR 27,500). The branch network of DPD in Russia covering the country’s major cities has now increased to 30 branches linked together by a common IT system and by a unique ground line haul network. In addition to the standard services, the new depot will develop and implement tailor-made parcel and freight delivery projects within the Volga and Ural regions, DPD Russia said.

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Financial investor bids over EUR 500m for Seur controlling stake

Posted by | Aug 1, 2008 | |

British private equity company Doughty Hanson has bid more than EUR 500 million to buy a 52 pct majority stake in Spanish express parcels operator Seur in an offer valuing the company at about EUR 1 billion. DHL and UPS were apparently also interested in the company.
According to Spanish business newspaper Expansión, the UK financial investor has made the offer to a group of Seur franchisees who have decided to sell off their shareholdings in the group. The offer, valuing the whole company at EUR 1 billion, is thus worth about EUR 520 million.
Expansión, citing market sources, described the bid as “friendly” and said that Doughty Hanson was ready to work with other Seur shareholders, including La Poste subsidiary GeoPost, which owns a 19.6 pct share in the group.
The other Seur shareholders now have 45 days to decide whether to exercise their right to block the bid with a counter-offer of at least the same size, the newspaper wrote. Sources close to La Poste said that no decision has yet been taken about this, it added.
Seur, with revenues of EUR 665 million last year, has a complex, decentralised ownership structure comprising regional franchisees who also own small stakes in the parent company Seur SA. Seur has 85 franchisees in total controlled by 54 companies. The franchisees seeking to sell their holdings represent 52 pct of Seur capital, 65 pct of the franchises by number, and generate 5 pct of gross profits, according to the newspaper.

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Japan and France to jointly offer logistics services

Posted by | Jul 30, 2008 | |

Japan Post Service Co., a mail delivery unit of Japan Post Holdings Co., said it will collaborate with French postal service operator La Poste in strengthening its international logistics businesses.

Starting in October, the two will offer distribution services between Japan and Europe using the networks of their respective logistics units.

Japan Post Service Chairman Norio Kitamura and La Poste Chairman Jean-Paul Bailly reached an agreement on the three-year tie-up, which is effective until 2011, at their meeting in Paris last Tuesday 29th July.

The two companies have so far exchanged information on postal services and personnel. It is the first time for the two to work together.

Japan Post Sankyu Global Logistics Co., a joint venture between Japan Post Service and major logistics service provider Sankyu Inc. and GeoPost, affiliated with La Poste, will take charge of the joint services of large-lot transportation of small cargo shipments between businesses and inventory control for corporate customers.

Express Mail Service from France to Japan, which has been suspended since 1991, will be resumed next year to boost transactions between the two countries.

The Japanese and French postal service operators will also jointly study ways to effectively use electric vehicles in their operations.

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Poste Italiane helps pave the way for the delivery of electronic postmarks

Posted by | Jul 30, 2008 | |

Poste Italiane’s Director General, Massimo Sarmi introduced an application to enable Posts the world over to deliver electronic postal certification marks.

The plug-in developed by Poste Italiane with the help of Microsoft applies an electronic postal certification mark that provides evidential proof of an electronic event, in a certain form, at a certain time, and involving one or more parties. This certification mark can be seen as the electronic equivalent of a registered letter. It brings all the benefits of the traditional paper-based postmark to electronic documents. Features such as date and time stamping, digital identity capture, content verification and encryption prove that the content of an electronic message has not been altered. The electronic postal certification mark acts as evidence of who signed what and when.

The Advanced Electronic Services user group, part of the UPU’s Telematics Cooperative (an association of UPU member countries that work together to develop technical applications for the benefit of the postal world), and countries currently using electronic postmarks also contributed their expertise to the project. These include Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Portugal and the United States.

With this application, the UPU will work to provide member countries wishing to offer electronic postal certification marks the necessary infrastructure to do so.

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Postal Operators – Fuel prices hitting profits

Posted by | Jul 24, 2008 | |

Higher fuel prices are having an impact on operating profit for all postal operators, and with many European countries already investing in alternative fuel sources, the U.S. Postal Service is now looking for ways to reduce it’s annual fuel bill, expected to increase by USD 600m this year.

The U.S. Postal Service has around 195,000 local delivery trucks and is already testing alternative transport powered by hydrogen, ethanol, lpg, and electricity.

French postal operator La Poste has a long-term plan to replace as much of its fleet as possible with electrically powered cars and is already using the battery-powered CleaNova, produced by Société de Véhicules Electriques (SVE), a joint venture between Dassault and Heuliez. Italian postal operator, Poste Italiane, has continued to replace many of its vehicles with gas-powered versions and has carried out several trials on alternative fuel vehicles, with special interest on serial-hybrid vans.

Royal mail aims to reduce its fleet fossil fuel usage by 14 pct by 2010 and has already bought Smith Edison and Newton higher function delivery vehicles which have a top speed of up to 50mph and can cover up to 150 miles on one battery charge. Royal Mail recently launched a company wide awareness programme to help its 180,000 people switch to greener driving, whether for social or work driving. And almost 1,000 Royal Mail drivers have received in-depth classroom training to help them adopt more environmentally-friendly motoring practices with plans to train a further 2,000 in the coming months.

With petrol and diesel prices expected to stay high this year, alternative fuels are likely to play a greater part in the selection of replacement vehicles for most postal operators.

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