DHL has signed a deal with Russian carrier Aeroflot to handle the integrator’s express services between Moscow and Brussels. Under the terms of the contract DHL is guaranteed bellyhold space on Aeroflot flights, enabling it to offer a direct service between the two stations.
Read MoreThere are no plans for privatizing Russia’s postal service in the near future, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Leonid Reyman has told Prime-TASS in an interview.
Reyman, who is attending a Russian economic forum, said the postal service would be reformed into a 100-per-cent government-owned company.
Post offices have had to rent out space to food stores and barber shops to make ends meet as fewer and fewer people send letters. But that could all change under a Communications Ministry plan to jump-start the postal service by merging the country’s 93 floundering regional postal departments into a company called Russian Post.
Read MoreAccording to a survey by Research International DHL now holds 5 1% of the Russian domestic express market, followed by TNT on 19% UPS with 10% and FedEx with 7% DHL Worldwide and TNT Russia both announced last month that their revenues grew in excess of 30% last year. while UPS recorded “double-digit” growth.
TNrs increase of 40% was the highest rate of growth among all 200 countries it operates in, according to Harro van Graafeiland, the company’s general manager.
He attributes the growth to a rapidly recovering economy and increased demand from Russian companies for reliable domestic delivery services.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said on Thursday that the concept of the federal postal service which was considered by the Cabinet of Ministers must include steps aiming to improve the quality and reliability of the services provided in this sphere.
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