European Union Transportation Commissioner Loyola de Palacio said if the US and the UK manage to come to an agreement on a bilateral “open skies” pact, the deal will be overruled by a European court later this year.
“The agreement can be signed with a clear short life,” de Palacio told reporters here ahead of the US-EU summit between European President Romano Prodi and President George Bush at the White House.
Uk parcels and freight distributor, ANC has confirmed it is in talks with the Italian and Spanish post offices, over forming a two-way partnership for deliveries in another’s market.
Read MoreCONSIGNIA COULD be put out of business because of the way the postal regulator is planning to open up the Royal Mail’s monopoly to competition, an influential Commons committee warns today.
The cross-party Public Accounts Committee accuses Postcomm of “decision making in the dark” and says the regulator’s actions could mean the death of the universal service that guarantees deliveries to all homes in the country at a single price.
Hays DX, the UK’s leading private sector mail company, has applied to the Postal Regulator, Postcomm, for an extension of its existing licence to expand its business mail delivery service in the event of an official Royal Mail strike. If Postcomm approves the application, Hays DX will be able to limit the damaging effects of such action on the business community by delivering business mail to all business addresses in 50 city centres throughout the UK.
Read MoreIt is a year-on since La Poste bought Parceline and Interlink from the Australian-owner Mayne Nickless in a deal which Colin Milibariks, a chief operating officer, describes as a marriage made in heaven.
Mayne Nickless was renamed GeoPost, and Millbanks and Kay Philips were both made ceos. Millbanks claims that had the two parcel distribution firms not been bought by such a large postal authority they would have been unable to secure their position as mega players in the parcel market.
Millbanks says: “You can already see that the postal authorities of Germany, France, and Britain have emerged as the power players in Europe.
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