Tag: Sweden

TNT offers Innight services in the Nordics

Posted by | Jun 10, 2008 | |

TNT is offering Innight distribution in the Nordic region following the launch of dedicated flights between Brussels and several regional airports at the start of June.

The express operator has started up a route between Brussels, Jönköping (southern Sweden) and Helsinki operated with a BAe 146, and two feeder routes operated with Cessnas linking Oslo and Billund (Denmark) to Jönköping.

Tony Jakobsen, Regional General Manager TNT Northern Europe, said TNT was the only international express operator offering such innight distribution services on a scheduled basis.

Stephen Naylor, managing director of TNT Sweden, added that Jönköping was ideally located to act as a hub for innight shipments from Central Europe heading for Nordic destinations. Key customers include the automotive and agricultural sectors.

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Postal Industry Launches Global Carbon Measurement System

Posted by | Jun 2, 2008 | |

The International Post Corporation (IPC) has launched an environmental measurement and monitoring system providing a common carbon measurement and reporting framework for the global postal industry.

The launch and formal adoption by IPC member postal operators including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, took place at IPC’s Annual Conference 2008 in La Chapelle en Serval, France on 30 May. The event was attended by CEOs from Europe, the Asia-Pacific and North America.
The system provides the postal industry with a transparent, scientific, sector specific carbon management and measurement system based on the requirements of international best practice standards, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, DJSI, FTSE4Good, ISO 14001, and current best practice from the corporate environment. The system evaluates performance through the application of a scoring system that grades performance in ten carbon management proficiency areas and in key numeric carbon efficiency indicators.

The environmental measurement and monitoring system was also built on best practice as exemplified by customers of IPC members and is highly responsive to customer requirements and interests in measuring their own carbon footprint in their value chains.

The system will be piloted in 2008, with results from the first round of measurement expected to be announced in November 2009.

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Belgium open to postal ties to Scandinavian group

Posted by | May 31, 2008 | |

Belgium is open to the idea of its postal service becoming part of the new joint Danish-Swedish mail group, a minister told Belgian business daily De Tijd in a story published on Saturday.

Sweden and Denmark agreed in April to merge the two countries’ post offices, creating a company with annual revenues of about USD 7.5 billion that will eventually be listed.

Sweden will own 58.23 percent of the capital. The letter of intent was also signed by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners which owns a minority stake in Post Danmark, the Danish post office.

The move has led to speculation about what might happen to Belgium’s postal service, in which the Belgian state has 50 percent and one share. Post Danmark and CVC have the remaining stake of just under 50 percent.

Vervotte was open to the idea of Belgium’s La Poste/De Post, and its 37,000 workers, becoming part of the new Scandinavian group.

Belgium has similarly said it wishes to retain control over former telecom monopoly Belgacom , but might be ready to lower its stake if Belgacom found a merger partner.

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Itella to team up with IVANAhelsinki: Personal IVANAhelsinki patterns for Post Products

Posted by | May 13, 2008 | |

Itella Corporation and IVANAhelsinki have concluded a licence agreement giving Itella exclusive rights to use IVANAhelsinki designs in selected Post products and services, such as postcards and packaging materials and supplies. This agreement will enable Itella to develop a novel product family, based on the material licensed by IVANAhelsinki, while IVANAhelsinki will have the opportunity to sell its products through the post office network, at first in the Helsinki General Post Office. Itella made a similar licence agreement with Marimekko in 2007.
Consumers represent an important customer segment to whose changing needs Itella is seeking to respond. Itella is dedicated to providing its customers with opportunities to send greetings and other messages using both conventional and new methods. The product range based on IVANAhelsinki designs has the aim of encouraging Finns to send personal greetings to their nearest and dearest by post.
The personal and inspiring IVANAhelsinki patterns will be used, for instance, in the Post’s packaging materials and supplies as well as electronic consumer products, such as ePostcards and Mobile Postcards. The first prints included in the agreement will make their entry into the Post’s product range in early 2009.

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Nordic commerce favours the parcel market

Posted by | May 6, 2008 | |

Pan Nordic Logistics AB, PNL, reached a turnover of 1.5 billion SEK and a result before tax of 52 millions SEK – a growth of 28 per cent compared to 2006. Some of the reasons to the positive result are that PNL has focused on specific areas and that the commerce between the Nordic countries have risen favouring the parcel market.

It is a strong result showing that PNL is an important and big player on the cross-border parcel market within the Nordic countries. PNL has a unique infrastructure in the Nordic countries which is where its main competences lie. The strategy is and has been to focus on what PNL does best, delivering parcels to, from and within the Nordic region.

Growth factors for the parcel market and PNL 2007 has been characterized by growth and consequently PNL took the decision to invest in a new, larger terminal in Jönköping. The inauguration will be in January 2009.

PNL’s customers are mainly within the IT, textile and electronics segments. However, new customers within e-commerce and mail order companies within various branches are increasing. The common demand for these branches and companies are that they all need frequent transports to numerous of cities and countries.

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