Tag: Sweden

Healthy demand continues across Itella’s businesses

Posted by | Oct 26, 2007 | |

– Net sales in January–September rose by 10 per cent, to EUR 1,230.9 million.
– All business groups showed growth. Net sales increased in Finland by 6 per cent and 24 per cent in other countries. Organic growth accounted for 6 per cent. The share of international operations was 26 per cent.
– In January–September, operating profit grew by 18 per cent, amounting to EUR 79.7 million, accounting for 6.5 per cent of net sales. Profitability increased in Itella Mail Communication and Itella Information.
– A development and investment project concerning mail sorting and delivery in Finland was launched in Itella Mail Communication. Consequently, the decision was taken to build a new post centre in Oulu and to extend those located in Tampere and Kuopio. In Helsinki post centre sorting machines are currently being renewed.
– Itella Logistics acquired PS Logistics AB in Sweden.
– Itella Mail Communication sold the office services business of the Inhouse unit to ISS Palvelut Oy.
– The EU reached a consensus on the schedule for the entry into force of the new Postal Directive. Accordingly, the European postal markets will be opened up to competition, at the latest by 2011–2013. The new directive allows the member states to define more flexibly how basic delivery and other universal services are to be secured and financed. The impact of the directive in Finland will depend on how Finnish legislation governs its implementation.

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DHL helps industry to increase trade between Sweden and the USA

Posted by | Oct 22, 2007 | |

DHL is now introducing its major initiative US Next Day to improve the opportunities for Swedish companies to trade with North America. A powerful combination of a new way of coordinating air freight shipments from Stockholm, an extensive local transport network in the USA and its own airport should substantially reduce transport times between Sweden and North America.

North America is one of Sweden’s most important export markets. In 2006, Swedish industry exported goods to North America worth around SEK 112.9 billion, according to the Swedish Trade Federation, Svensk Handel.

With its new service, US Next Day, DHL intends to offer even faster transport in order to improve the opportunities for Swedish industry to trade with North America, and increase its competitiveness. The Swedish Trade Council (Exportrådet) welcomes the initiative.

DHL has received a growing number of enquiries from Swedish companies on the subject of faster shipments to the whole of North America. The company’s new Express service constitutes a revolution in the sense that transport times between Sweden and North America will be substantially reduced.

Starting on October 29, DHL will therefore be offering companies in the Stockholm region shipments to North America to be delivered within 24 hours at the outside. But this is just the beginning. Very soon, the plan is to offer companies in the Gothenburg and Malmö regions the same rapid deliveries. In order to achieve drastic reductions in transport times between Sweden and North America, DHL Express Sweden has taken a number of actions.

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Tetra Pak and DHL in alliance for reduced emissions

Posted by | Oct 10, 2007 | |

The global packaging company opts for DHL’s environmental service, GoGreen
Express shipments from Sweden will be handled via GoGreen, DHL’s carbon-neutral shipping service.
DHL, and Tetra Pak have entered into broad cooperation in the environmental field. The arrangement means that all express shipments from Sweden will be handled via DHL’s unique environmental service, GOGREEN.
GOGREEN is a carbon-neutral shipping service. This means that DHL measures the carbon dioxide emissions caused by a customer’s shipments and then neutralizes emissions by an equivalent amount somewhere else in the world. To calculate the emissions from different flights, DHL uses a specially developed and patented program.
For almost thirty years, Tetra Pak and DHL have collaborated closely and very successfully in the transport field. They took a further significant step recently when Tetra Pak decided to opt for DHL’s environmental service, GOGREEN. The first stage will cover all express shipments from Sweden.
The reduction of carbon emission is enabled through investments in different environmental projects. It can be projects about new technology for vehicles, usage of new alternative fuels, methane extraction, sun panels. The whole process for CO2-calculations for reducing the emissions through various projects is annually checked by the well known certifying and verifying company, SGS in Switzerland.
For Tetra Pak, environmental investments are an important issue within the company.
“As Tetra Pak grows, so we transport more and more goods. We want to use forwarders who can help us to grow without increasing our carbon dioxide emissions. In this situation, GOGREEN is seen as a natural step. For ten years now, we have ranked forwarders, and companies that do not manage to live up to our high environmental standards are automatically dropped,” says Agneta Melin, Tetra Pak’s environmental manager for the Nordic region and the Baltic republics.

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World Postal Business Forum organized by UPU opens in Barcelona

Posted by | Oct 3, 2007 | |

Each edition of the annual POST-EXPO trade show confirms that new technologies are increasingly playing a larger role in postal operations. And far from being a threat to the postal sector, they provide many opportunities to postal operators and their customers.

Edouard Dayan reminded participants that new technologies are particularly important for electronic money transfers between postal operators around the world, for tracking and tracing mail to ensure quality of service and in enabling postal operators to help develop electronic commerce and participate actively in the global distribution chain for merchandise ordered online.

José Damián Santiago Martín, President of Correos, the Spanish public postal operator, said for his part that technology was an essential element of its business strategy. The company has invested heavily in recent years to modernize its business infrastructure and launch service innovations. He did emphasize, however, that new technologies cannot replace people.

Among other topics being discussed during the opening session is the response of the worldwide postal sector to climate change. The global postal sector will respond to the challenge of using more effective transportation means to distribute mail the world over and the necessary resources for postal communication, said Dayan.

The worldwide postal sector – five million postal employees (up to 10 million if associated sectors are included) and more than 600,000 postal establishments – uses some 250,000 motorcycles, more than 600,000 vehicles and hundreds of planes to distribute mail the world over, according to conservative estimates.

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