Tag: Worldwide

Russian and Chinese Posts start exchanging e-postal orders

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

An agreement was signed between the Russia Post, the Federal Unitary Enterprise and the Chinese Post, the Chinese Corporation.

According to the agreement, e-postal orders in the RF are to be paid in rubles, while in China in the US dollars or in yuans. At the same time the highest order should not exceed USD 1.5. The number of e-orders accepted in Russia and addressed to one client is not limited.

At present the technical base in both countries is absolutely ready to start providing the service, corresponding to the technology developed by the Worldwide Postal Alliance, the international bureau. The parties are to arrange and carry out e-orders using the mentioned technology.

The orders could be carried out between the individuals, the individuals and entities, and vice versa. Thus the money transfer is to cover all the main market segments.

The tariff for the carried out services is to be equal to the already existing tariffs for the international transfer of money: from 2% to 5% depending on the sum. The average time of transfer is from 2 to 3 days.

The Russian Post is going to sign agreements on e-orders with a number of other non-CIS countries. According to Igor Syrtsov, Russian Post Director General such agreements are to be signed with France, Israel, Turkey, and the UAE. Igor Syrtsov noted the Russian Post had already switched to the e-postal orders. The Russian Post currently carries out e-postal orders with Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Byelorussia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kirgizia, Lithuania, Moldavia and Estonia.

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Courier service introduced by New Zealand Post

Posted by | Jul 10, 2007 | |

A Courier service introduced by New Zealand Post looks set to boost trans-Tasman air cargo and to increase traffic on several other routes. The new product has been developed in response to the boom in internet trading and recognizes that some customers are not in a rip-roaring hurry to receive their consignments.

Called International Economy Courier, it offers a rate discount of around 30 per cent on equivalent premium services.

Consignments from New Zealand are delivered to Australian customers in two to three days and to those in 10 other countries within a maximum of six days at the greatest geographic reach.

Studies by the Nielsen research group had shown that many parcels and documents “don’t have to be on someone’s desk in Sydney the next day,” she said. “The Nielsen research showed that many organizations — particularly exporters – would be more than happy for a parcel to take two to three days to cross the Tasman if it meant they’d make big cost savings.”

Kernot explained that New Zealand Post wanted to fill “a major hole in the market – between the low cost international mail services and the high-cost courier services offered by most international courier companies”.

A key factor in developing the economy product was, she said, the “astonishing number” of people in other countries buying products from New Zealand websites. This includes both innovative commercial traders and the hyper-active TradeMe online auction house which is now Australian-owned.

Kernot compared the NZD 53.75 (GBP 20.75) charge for a 5 kg package sent from New Zealand to Sydney using the new product with the NZD 76.79 (GBP 29.71) cost of utilizing the company’s premium product.

Other countries covered by the economy service are Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, Ireland and the UK.

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Air Canada drops Shanghai service

Posted by | Jul 9, 2007 | |

China’s boomtown has turned sour for Air Canada Cargo. At the end of June, the airline returned a leased MD-11 freighter to World Airways and scrapped its all-cargo flights between Shanghai and Toronto.

Withdrawing the all-cargo service marks the culmination of Air Canada’s retrenchment on the Pacific. The airline launched Shanghai freighter service in spring 2005 with two leased MD-11s, operating five days a week between the Chinese city and Toronto. Last October, however, the disappointing peak season prompted management to return one MD-11 to World and scale back the other two to three flights a week.

This April brought another step back from Air Canada’s Asian ambitions when the carrier canceled an order for two 777 cargo aircraft. Scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2009, those planes were earmarked mostly for trans-Pacific operations.

A major reason has been the increase in freighter operations between Shanghai and North America. U.S. carriers Polar Air Cargo, UPS and FedEx have used new traffic rights this year to step up their Shanghai flights. Moreover, Chinese carriers are increasingly targeting the North American market.

Since last fall, Shanghai Airlines and Yangtze River Express commenced U.S. flights with 747 freighters, and Jade Air Cargo is poised to start a 747-400 freighter operation from Shenzhen through Shanghai to Vancouver and Houston this month.

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FedEx to pull out of Taiwan's port city Kaohsiung

Posted by | Jul 7, 2007 | |

FedEx Corp, will pull out of Taiwan’s port city and industrial centre Kaohsiung later this month.

FedEx will operate its last flight out of Kaohsiung International Airport on July 27 and relocate staff to other cities, the China Times reported.

FedEx made the decision to quit Kaohsiung – Taiwan’s second- largest city after capital Taipei and the island’s industrial centre – because business has been declining every year in recent years.

FedEx has been serving Kaohsiung for 12 years, currently operating five weekly cargo flights to the airport. Compared with the peak days, FedEx’s business in Kaohsiung has fallen 30 per cent.

The decision to pull of Kaohsiung was made in FedEx’s US headquarters, and would not affect FedEx’s service in Taiwan or the interests of customers.

Taiwan’s economic competitiveness has been declining fast in recent years, in part due to the island’s five-decade ban on direct sea and air trade with China.

Taiwan’s business sector has been calling on the government to open air and sea links with China, but the government said the bans must be eased gradually for national security.

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