Via its subsidiary Hultberg Inrikes Transporter (HIT), Posten has purchased the Dutch carriers Starintex Road Cargo and Gendringen Expedite. The companies operate within forwarding and in-night transportation in the Netherland, Belgium and Germany.
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Oct 25, 2001 (NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT via COMTEX) — Sweden will not increase the postage fees at the start of next year.
Posten AB, the Swedish postal service, had reportedly requested that the rules for the postage be changed to better reflect current costs. If this had been approved, the cost of sending a so-called A-letter, which can weigh up to 20 grammes and is to be delivered the following day, would have been increased by SEK0.5, reported TT, a Swedish news agency.
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Read MoreAlbateam, a consortium comprising TNT, Wallenius Lines and Autologic Holding, aquired and 80% interest in Compania de Flete y de Transport (CAT) logistics company from Renault SA. Terms were not disclosed.
Albateam also aquired the Compaignie dAffrement ed de Transport (CAT) from Renault
Read MoreThe long-standing dispute over the future of Europe’s postal markets reaches a climax tomorrow at a council of EU telecommunications ministers in Luxembourg. EU leaders meeting in Lisbon in March 2000 all agreed to liberalise their markets in a bid to make the European economy more dynamic and competitive.
Belgium, which currently holds the EU presidency, is trying to cobble together a deal which would open 20 per cent of the postal markets to competition in 2006, compared to the present 3 per cent.
The long-standing dispute over the future of Europe’s postal markets reaches a climax tomorrow at a council of EU telecommunications ministers in Luxembourg.
EU leaders meeting in Lisbon in March 2000 all agreed to liberalise their markets in a bid to make the European economy more dynamic and competitive.
Belgium, which currently holds the EU presidency, is trying to cobble together a deal which would open 20 per cent of the postal markets to competition in 2006, compared to the present 3 per cent.
Read MoreThe French post office said it is eyeing partnerships with other postal utilities in Europe following the announcement on Thursday of a tie-up with Post Sweden in the parcels and express sectors. ‘Scandinavia is a very important market for package delivery services and the agreement we’ve reached with Post Sweden extends our European network to some 23 countries,’ La Poste president Martin Vial told Reuters in an interview. La Poste’s external growth activities, particularly in Germany and the U.K., and its partnership agreements in southern Europe, with the Italian and Spanish post offices, signed earlier this year, and now in Scandinavia, with Post Sweden, give the French operator the leading, integrated rapid transport networks in Europe, Vial said.
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