Tag: South America

TNT and Mira sign agreement

The TNT Express Brasil (subsidiary of TNT Post Group) specialized in express delivery services and the Brazilian company Mira Transportes, focused in cargo transportation signed a partnership contract that can represent a turnover of U$5mil per year.

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Courier Service are a growing business in Costa Rica

The competition among the courier service companies operating in Costa Rica is growing following the increase in on-line shopping activities, the preference offirms to import materials and components through courier services and the fact that the exporting companies operating in Costa Rica tend to use these services to ensure that the goods are delivered on time and fulfill security standards. Some of the companies offering courier services in Costa Rica are FedEx, United Parcel Service (UPS), Aerocasillas, DHL, Jet Box, Correos de Costa Rica and Cafe Britt. The imports made through courier services so far in 2002 have amounted some US$ 10.2mn, compared to US$ 7.1mn in 2001.

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Uruguayan Post to Offer e-Services

Uruguay’s postal service plans to create a website offering goods and services, as well as an Internet access point at its main branch in each provincial capital, Uruguayan daily El Observador reported. The project will benefit Uruguayans from the country’s interior, who don’t have the opportunity to shop in the capital Montevideo, as well as those without access to computers and credit cards, postal service VP Gustavo Osta said.

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Lost Mail: Spotlight on Sepomex

Mexico’s postal service looks to monopoly as a solution to its financial woes

You can’t blame them for trying. The Mexican Postal Service (Sepomex) first began losing money in 1999, but by 2000, losses were reaching $200 million pesos a year, and $600 million pesos in 2001.

But now, the state-owned company is crying foul over what it calls “illegal competition” from well-known private foreign and domestic courier companies. The massive influx of competition has been further exasperated by the increasing popularity of email. In the face of its imminent demise Sepomex, the Transport and Communications Secretariat has sent a controversial reform proposal to the Chamber of Deputies that has private courier companies barking mad. The proposal would consolidate Sepomex’s position within the market and so assure its survival, that has companies like Multipack, DHL, Fedex and UPS barking mad.

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