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TNT Express opens new centre north of Paris

Posted by | Apr 6, 2007 | |

TNT Express France has opened a new, 10,000 sqm parcel and document sorting centre and regional headquarters near Paris.

The new 30,000 square metre depot and offices provide easy access to the main A1, A3, A104 and A86 motorways and has 100 bays for HGVs and light vehicles. It currently handles over 26,000 parcels per day.

“With 7,800 sqm of depot and 2,200 sqm of offices, this brand new site is going to allow us to increase our operational capacity and efficiency to ensure optimum quality of service. It is a positive development for employees, management and all our clients,” said Franck Morodei, regional operations director.

TNT Express France also announced that it had received a gold award from “Relation Client” magazine for the B2B telephone service it provides.

The centre employs 140 staff and is part of TNT Express’ 120 strong France-wide site network.

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TNT Post scoops BT contract

Posted by | Apr 4, 2007 | |

TNT Post has been appointed by BT to deliver The Phone Book to 3.2 million homes across the UK as part of a three-year contract.

The move follows TNT Post’s GBP90m contract win in January to deliver BT’s addressed mail.

The new contract will see TNT Post deliver 22 of the 170 local editions of The Phone Book.

TNT Post will provide on target and on time services to ensure The Phone Book is delivered efficiently and effectively.

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TNT Post to freeze wages and cut up to 7,000 jobs

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

TNT will seek to freeze wages and cut up to 7,000 jobs to help lower costs by 300 million euros (USD 400 million) as its remaining monopoly is opened to competition next year.

The dominant Dutch mail company, whose business is already under attack from rivals Sandd and Deutsche Post’s Selekt Mail, did not rule out forced redundancies on Tuesday.

Dutch mail unit TNT Post, one of the country’s biggest employers with 59,000 people, has steadily lost mail volume to competitors and as a result of the popularity of email, online banking and government initiatives such as electronic tax filing.

“Less post means less work,” Harry Koorstra, TNT board member responsible for the mail business, told Dutch news radio BNR, adding the company expected to lose another 30 percent of Dutch mail volume in coming years.

TNT said in December that it aimed to cut costs in its mail division by 300 million euros by 2015. It did not specify what provisions it will take in implementing the cost savings.

The company is also seeking to compensate for shrinking mail volumes at home by growing abroad and expects to benefit from the liberalisation of the European mail market, due by 2009 according to European Commission plans.

TNT still has a monpoly on mail weighing up to 50 grammes, representing about half of the overall mail market, which the Dutch government plans to scrap from 2008.

“Some 65 percent of the cost of delivering post consists of labor, and precisely the factor labor is no longer in step with the market,” Koorstra said, adding competitors paid 7 euros-to-9 euros an hour while a mailman cost 22 euros-to-24 euros.

TNT said it would also seek to change other employment terms, such as making employees pay pension contributions, which currently was not the case.

Without changes to employment terms, some 11,000 employees would have to lose their jobs between 2007 and 2010, TNT said.

Due to a large number of part-time workers in mail delivery, the expected 6,500 to 7,000 job cuts are equivalent to about 4,500 full-time jobs, Koorstra said.

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TNT Post provides more clarity on effects of cost-saving initiatives

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

TNT Post provided more clarity to its employees of the effect on jobs of the measures the company will be taking to safeguard its success in the longer term in a postal market that is experiencing declining volumes and increasing competition. The company hopes that it can avoid large-scale involuntary redundancies by complementing its operational efficiency measures with changes to employment conditions and benefits to bring these in line with the market.

TNT Post does not believe that operational efficiency measures alone will be sufficient to achieve the cost savings of 300 million euros that were announced on 4 December 2006. This would result in 11,000 employees losing their jobs between 2007 and 2010. Because natural attrition and job mobility programmes would be insufficient to absorb this level of job loss, large-scale involuntary redundancies would be the inevitable result. TNT Post does not see this as socially preferable.

TNT Post has opted for an alternative in which operational efficiency measures will be combined with changes to the employment package and additional incentives to encourage employees to leave the company.

In this approach, employee wages will be, at best, frozen at the present level for the next two and a half years. In addition, other conditions of employment will have to be brought more in line with the market. With these measures the company believes it can limit the loss to between 6,500 and 7,000 jobs, most of which can be absorbed by natural attrition and assisted reemployment. TNT Post emphasises however that unfortunately it may not be possible to avoid involuntary redundancies.

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TNT starts bio fuel pilot in India – a “Driving Clean” initiative to reduce carbon emissions

Posted by | Apr 2, 2007 | |

TNT launched a pilot project in India to use bio fuel for its delivery vehicles. The initial phase will see specially trained drivers run three bio fuel trucks between Pune, Nasik and Bangalore, covering a total of 45,000 kilometres per month. Routes and driving times are optimized to further reduce carbon emissions. If the project proves efficient, TNT intends to expand it within its Indian fleet of vehicles.

The Indian government already promotes bio fuel trains for transporting passengers and freight. Close to 44 million hectares – equivalent to two-thirds of the Netherlands’ area – of degraded forest land are currently used in India for growing the vegetation needed for alternative fuel. Local farmers will benefit from growing bio fuel crops, which can be a new source of revenues and jobs.

TNT’s bio fuel pilot project in India is part of the company’s global “Driving Clean” initiative to improve its environmental performance. TNT is already using alternative fuels and technologies in a variety of pilot projects in the Netherlands, the UK, Germany and Australia.

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