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Kuwaiti government to privatise more services

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Communication, Abdulaziz Al-Osaimi said that the ministry intends to privatise more of its services, highlighting the potential benefits of privatisation for the postal sector, which is experiencing many problems, reported Al-Rai. Al-Osaimi said that the ministry has submitted a number of reports to the Cabinet regarding this matter, outlining a number of measures intended to improve these services. He added that ministry specialists are currently working on a comprehensive study analysing how best to administer the postal sector and evaluating the various private companies expected to submit tenders for contracts to provide these services, further stating that freeing the postal sector from government bureaucracy and intervention could only be of benefit in the long term. Regarding the 101 exchange service, Al-Osaimi said it would never be successful unless privatised, hinting that the government is seeking more private sector involvement in the provision of various services in order to increase efficiency.

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TNT Airways selects KLM Engineering

Posted by | Jan 8, 2007 | |

TNT Airways has selected KLM Engineering & Maintenance (KLM E&M) for the maintenance of its two Boeings 747-400 Extended Range Freighters. KLM E&M already maintains TNT’s growing Boeing 737F/QC fleet, under a full support contract. In addition, KLM E&M executes C-checks** on TNT’s BAE146 aircraft at its subsidiary KLM uk Engineering in Norwich; this contract has recently been extended by five years.

KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Air France Industries, which joined forces following the Air France KLM merger, are world-leading multi-product MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) providers with a joint workforce of 15,000, offering comprehensive repair capability, integration expertise, component pool operational support and a powerful logistics network. Together they support the aircraft of Air France and KLM as well as more than 150 major customers worldwide.

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ING Group under negotiations to provide products through India Post

Posted by | Jan 5, 2007 | |

According to the Hindu Business Line, Dutch financial services firm ING Group is in negotiations with the Department of Posts in anticipation of providing life insurance products through the India Post network.

The global financial institution has been actively seeking to expand its distribution network to support its joint venture ING Vysya Life Insurance Company, in which it holds a 26% stake. At present, ING has already established a tie-up with Japan Post for the distribution of its services to support its Japanese joint venture and hopes to replicate this with India Post. However, almost all life insurers are in a race to obtain additional tie-ups. The Indian alliance would also generate an additional income for India Post, increasing its revenues. Cited in the Hindu Business Line, ING sources are said to have confirmed the discussions but refused to comment further on details regarding its status and progress.

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Environmental concerns lead Deutsche Post to RFID

Posted by | Dec 20, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post World Net has launched a project to develop passive RFID tags incorporating a small, rewriteable display for use on mail containers. The D-RFID tags, as they’re called, will be used as part of an RFID application under development to track DPWN’s 6 million yellow shipping containers. The company utilizes the crates to hold the 70 million letters that pass through its 84 distribution centers each day.

DPWN currently throws away about 500 million of these paper labels per year. Printing 500 million labels annually is still the cheapest way for it to label the reusable plastic bins, however, so the company initiated a project called Pariflex (Passive RFID with Flexible Bistable Display) to eliminate this environmental waste. D-RFID tags are high-frequency passive RFID tags with displays powered by the tags, which draw their energy from the magnetic field of the RFID interrogator.

The Pariflex project got rolling in October 2005 and will run until September 2008, funded with euro2.5 million (USD3.3 million) from the German Federal Ministry and Research (BMBF). The companies involved will also contribute to the budget if government funds don’t cover expenses, said Gerhard Stönner, DPWN’s head of engineering in the mail division and a manager of the D-RFID project. So far, the partners have developed demonstration tags with the full functionality needed by the application, though these tags contain batteries.

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