Tag: Middle East

Restructuring of Saudi Postal Services under way

Posted by | Apr 11, 2006 | |

President of the Saudi Postal Corporation Mohammed Saleh Benton has announced that the country’s postal operations would be turned into a joint stock company under the name of Saudi Postal Services Corp. Benton also said that the post office in downtown Jeddah on King Abdul Aziz Street will now be open on Fridays to make it convenient for the citizens to send their mail from there. He said that the Wassel service, which is a program to deliver mails to residences, has not been activated yet even though many residences have received their mailboxes.

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TNT plans USD1 million Bahrain expansion

Posted by | Mar 5, 2006 | |

TNT Express has unveiled plans to invest USD1 million in additional bonded warehouse facilities and new offices in Bahrain. ‘This expansion is also a direct response to growing region-wide demand for end-to-end logistics solutions and to accommodate TNT’s annual growth rate of 30% in our express business. We are focusing on our core express business and networks and success in this area is dependant upon high quality bonded facilities.’ TNT’s planned investment is expected to create an additional 20 jobs for Bahraini nationals.
‘We are determined to create competitive advantage through recruiting, maintaining and developing high quality employees,’ added Gamal.

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Empost signs agreement with Emirates Technologies for domestic and international courier services

Posted by | Mar 4, 2006 | |

Empost, the UAE’s national courier service, recently signed an agreement with Emirates Technologies to meet all domestic and international courier requirements of the UAE based technology solution provider. ‘This partnership gives Empost an excellent opportunity to provide our entire range of cost-effective courier services that will ensure timely and secure delivery of documents. Our agreement with Emirates Technologies comes at a time when we are stepping up our focus on expanding our client base in the private sector, and the addition of Emirates Technologies to this list adds a lot of value to our portfolio,’ said Sultan Al Midfa. ‘Our partnership will certainly be mutually beneficial as we can be assured of the highest quality of technical support and assistance we would require for the electronic services we will be launching at a later stage,’ he added.

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DHL announces Import Express Programme for Middle East customers

Posted by | Mar 1, 2006 | |

DHL Middle East today launched a major strategic initiative focused on DHL Import Express, a unique, all-inclusive, door-to-door service for expediting imports to the Middle East and between third countries. Import Express enables customers to send or receive documents and packages of any size, weight or value to and from over 210 countries – packaged in one simple solution using just one company, one currency and one invoice.

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Israel Postal Authority becomes government company

Posted by | Feb 28, 2006 | |

Israel will have a new state postal company as of Wednesday. The company will replace the Postal Authority and will be required to face competition from the private sector. Called Doar Yisrael in Hebrew, the new company aims at making profits by adding advanced new services and becoming more efficient while continuing to provide mail services to the whole population.

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