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Market Flash Issue 394 | 28 July 2009
EUROPE
Posten Norden Announces its Structure Royal Mail Continues Investing in Delivery TNT Post Plans to Halve its Workforce First Half Profits Fall at Itella Group La Poste Revises Strategy as Mail Falls
Further PostFinance Profits Help Offset Mail
Decline Review of Payments by the Belgian State Deutsche Post DHL Sells Bank Shares Correos Ties with KPG PIN Mail Offers a Hybrid Service Parcelforce Develops New Export Services Second Sorting Hub to be Built in Hungary GeoPost Buys More SEUR Franchisees DHL Expands its Coldchain Network Chronopost Gains OEA Customs Status Geodis Launches Parcel Pick-up Network Distance Selling Growing Nordic-wide UPS Venture to Lead Middle East Growth
AMERICAS
Canada Post Calls for Five-Year Price Plan FedEx and UPS Continue PR Battle Expanded UPS Air Hub Now in Operation
ASIA-PACIFIC
DHL Opens Another Domestic Hub in China
Rival Mail Service to Launch in New Zealand
DHL Consultancy Attracts Multinationals GeoPost Forms Air Express Venture in India Postal Services Group Chooses Google
Apps DHL Invests in Packaging Services DHL Shows its Automotive Sector
Leadership
In this issue
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Posten Norden Announces its Structure
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The merger between Post Danmark and Posten of Sweden has
been completed to create Posten Norden AB (publ), a Swedish
public limited company owned 40 percent by the Danish state
and 60 percent by the Swedish state. Votes are distributed equally
between the two states.
The new Posten Norden parent company has 50,000 employees
and revenue of SEK 45 billion. Fritz H. Schur will be chairman of
the supervisory board until the close of the 2010 annual general
meeting. Lars G. Nordström is group chief executive.
“Large companies in small countries want a bigger, real home
market while being simultaneously required to be capable of
achieving scale economies. The merger was motivated by these
two factors,” said Fritz Schur. “The new joint group will give us
better opportunities to develop our communications and logistics
activities and simultaneously retain a world-class postal service,”
he added.
The merged company will have four business areas: a mail business
in each country, Messaging Sweden and Mail Denmark, an overall
logistics business and information logistics covering all the activ-
ities undertaken by Strålfors.
The new group’s executives will include: Knud B. Pedersen,
deputy chief executive and head of production development;
Göran Sällqvist, deputy chief executive and head of business
development; Andreas Falkenmark, head of Messaging Sweden;
Finn Hansen, head of Mail Denmark; Henrik Höjsgaard, head of
Logistics; and Per Samuelson, head of Information Logistics.
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Royal Mail Continues Investing in Delivery
Royal Mail has announced it will spend GBP 120 million on mail
delivery equipment including handheld tracking devices, 11,500
new vehicles and some 30,000 trolleys, of which 2,400 will be
electric-powered, to relieve the weight burden on postmen and
women carrying increasingly more packages with the mail.
This latest phase of capital investment comes within Royal Mail’s
modernisation programme and is in addition to GBP 800 million
already spent. The entire programme totals investment of GBP 2.1
billion.
The company is focusing on winning packet and parcel business
to compensate for a ten percent annual drop in letter volumes
and is increasing its tracking capability.
The latest investment announcement on July 22 came a few
weeks after the UK Government shelved plans to implement
Hooper report recommendations, including the sale of up to 30
percent of Royal Mail to a private stakeholder.
It also followed three days of strikes in London and a “day of
action” across the country on July 17.
At the beginning of July, UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson
announced in the House of Lords that the state of the economy
had made it “impossible” to complete a deal to sell a stake in
Royal Mail on favourable terms.
It is understood that only investment group CVC made a firm bid
and that the amount offered was well below the government’s
expectation.
Following the announcement, the Communication Workers
Union (CWU) offered Royal Mail a three-month moratorium on
industrial action in return for negotiations on a “modernisation
agreement”. Royal Mail rejected the proposal dismissing it as
“misleading nonsense” aimed at halting the crucial modernisation
process.
On July 8, 9 and 10, postal workers in London took strike action.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson criticised the action saying that
the union’s negative attitude to change was partly to blame for
Royal Mail’s difficulties. “I just wish this ‘head in the sand’ attitude
by the Communication Workers Union would end,” he said.
Further action on July 17 called out workers across the UK for a
day of action; a new wave of strikes was expected to begin in
London on July 25 for three days.
TNT Post Plans to Halve its Workforce
TNT Post in the Netherlands plans to cut 11,000 jobs in the next
three years, reducing its current 23,000 strong full-time delivery
and sorting workforce by almost half.
The move is designed to save EUR 125 million a year as part of an
overall annual savings plan of EUR 395 million up to 2015.
It follows rejection in April by union members of a collective
labour agreement that would have cut pay by 15 percent in return
for a three-year guarantee on job security.
An employee survey conducted in June by TNT Post and its opera-
tions works council found that 74 percent of the 7,683 workers
who responded would choose to forfeit working conditions
in return for a job guarantee and/or a package of transitional
measures.
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First Half Profits Fall at Itella Group
Itella Group saw its earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) fall by
36.9 percent year-on-year to EUR 27.7 million in the first half of
2009. Mail and logistics suffered while earnings improved at Itella
Information.
Net sales were down 0.8 percent in the half year at EUR 916.2
million; however, excluding the impact of acquisitions, net sales
fell by 9.4 percent.
Mail volumes fell by 9 percent for first class letters, 16 percent
for addressed direct mail and 10 percent for parcels. Itella pres-
ident and chief executive officer Jukka Alho said the mail business
succeeded in compensating for the decline in volumes through
measures to improve productivity.
La Poste Revises Strategy as Mail Falls Further
Groupe La Poste expects mail volumes to be 30 percent lower by
2015 and has therefore started work on a new strategic plan to
meet the forecast market conditions.
Chief Executive Officer Jean-Paul Bailly has already warned that La
Poste will not meet its annual objectives. It expects a revenue loss
of three percent in 2009 following a 6.3 percent decline in mail
volume since the beginning of the year and a five percent drop
express parcel volume.
“If the pessimistic estimate for the development of the mail
business between 2009 and 2015 turns out to be right, we will
implement a plan to cut annual expenses by 1.5 percent. This
would equal savings of EUR 1 billion in seven years,” a spokes-
woman said.
In a revised strategic plan, the new focus is expected to be on
increasing revenue from an expanded product range and possible
diversification in Europe, for example the introduction of unad-
dressed direct mail services. Plans for innovation could see part-
nerships with internet companies.
The company sees growth potential in e-commerce parcel
delivery; it plans to expand its offer and is considering business-
to-consumer express services beyond French borders.
PostFinance Profits Help Offset Mail Decline
Swiss Post, like La Poste, France, is preparing for mail market
decline of up to 30 percent by 2015. It is reducing costs,
extending and diversifying its product and service range and
seeking targeted acquisitions.
The company has no plans, however, for large-scale job losses as
it strives to find “a delicate balance” between public service obli-
gations and the need for commercial flexibility and profitability.
Following political protests, it was forced to keep six regional
sorting centres operational after investing CHF 1.4 billion in three
new centres designed initially to replace 18 centres.
PostFinance is the principle profit generator in the short term.
Benefitting from a boom in consumer deposits, the banking
business expects to increase its operating profit this year to CHF
350 compared with CHF 229 million last year.
This contrasts with the letters business, which forecasts a slump in
operating profit to CHF 94 million compared with CHF 249 million
in 2008. This will result from a five percent fall in volume coupled
with lower prices, the imposition of VAT from July and a reduction
in the monopoly to letters up to 50 grams.
To help reduce operating costs, Swiss Post has been testing a new
delivery model that begins early in the morning with newspaper
delivery, then moves to business mail before a final round deliv-
ering mail to individuals.
New products include online franking and an electronic Swiss Post
Box for business customers.
Swiss Post supports a draft postal law that proposes restructuring
it into a limited company.
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Review of Payments by the Belgian State
The European Commission is investigating payments by the
Belgian Government to De Post/La Poste to establish whether they
were in line with rules on state aid.
In 2003, the Commission authorised the payments, but the
European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg overturned that
decision in February this year following an appeal by Deutsche
Post and its subsidiary DHL International.
The court said the Commission had not properly investigated how
annual capital payments made to compensate De Post/La Poste
for its public service obligations would impact on the parcels
market.
Deutsche Post and DHL launched the appeal after their request to
be consulted on the matter was rejected by the Commission.
Deutsche Post DHL Sells Bank Shares
Deutsche Post DHL has sold remaining shares in Deutsche Bank
that it received originally as part of the transaction to sell its stake
in Deutsche Postbank. The total cash inflow from the sale of 50
million shares stands at about EUR 5 billion.
Correos Ties with KPG
Spain’s Correos had launched International Postal Express, a parcel
service offering guaranteed day-specific delivery in countries in
the Kahala Posts Group (KPG) network: the United States, China,
Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and South Korea and the UK.
KPG announced after its executive committee meeting on July
8 that its combined volume grew by more than eleven percent
in 2008 to exceed USD 1.5 billion in revenue. It is forecasting
revenue growth of nine percent in 2009.
PIN Mail Offers a Hybrid Service
German private mail delivery company PIN Mail has launched an
online hybrid mail service for private and business customers with
small volumes.
The company uses software developed by Pawisda Systems that
prints letters close to the recipient for delivery by PIN Mail or
Deutsche Post. Customers can upload letters in the usual format,
including logo and attachments and choose single or full colour
printing.
PIN Mail is offering customers sending larger volumes additional
services including address lists.
Parcelforce Develops New Export Services
Royal Mail subsidiary Parcelforce Worldwide has segmented its
international offer to provide a new range of express, deferred
and pallet-load services.
The move responds to an eleven percent increase in export
deliveries in the past year. The company says the weak pound
has encouraged UK businesses to seek opportunities in export
markets.
The new range of six services comprises: Global Express, a fully
trackable service offering delivery next day in Europe and North
America and in two-days to the rest of the world; Global Priority,
a three-day service to destinations outside Europe; Global Value,
also to destinations outside Europe offering tracking and delivery
in five to ten days; Global Bulk Direct for pallet-loads of individual
parcels for different addresses in one area.
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Second Sorting Hub to be Built in Hungary
Magyar Posta of Hungary will invest HUF 6 billion to build a
second mail centre in Gödöllö, near Budapest, to serve the eastern
part of the country.
A public offer to tender will be issued this autumn for the
construction project which is expected to be complete in 2011.
The new centre forms part of Magyar Posta’s preparations for full
postal market opening in Hungary in 2013.
GeoPost Buys More SEUR Franchisees
GeoPost has increased its holding in Spanish parcels operator
SEUR to almost 27 percent with the acquisition of four additional
franchisees located in Barcelona, Galicia and Segovia.
The La Poste holding company now has 17 SEUR franchises.
It signed a strategic partnership with the company in 2004 and
reached a shareholders’ agreement in 2008 with several fran-
chisees allowing it to control the majority of SEUR capital.
DHL Expands its Coldchain Network
DHL has expanded its Coldchain road freight transport service to
Malta, Turkey and Russia, bringing the total number of European
countries in the network to more than 30.
The company operates about 500 temperature-controlled vehicles
and a series of hubs, including new two opened this year in
London and Milan. Further hubs are planned next year in eastern
Europe and Scandinavia.
Chronopost Gains OEA Customs Status
The French customs and excise authority has certified Chronopost
as an approved economic operator (OEA) for its customs proce-
dures and its management of safety and security.
The company said the European Union’s OEA status was intro-
duced in January 2008 to strengthen the security of international
logistics and the level of protection offered by customs inspec-
tions to goods entering or leaving the EU.
As a customs broker, Chronopost works with French customs.
It received dual OEA status following a series of audits by the
customs authority.
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Geodis Launches Parcel Pick-up Network
France’s Geodis Calberson is stepping up its competition with
Coliposte in the French business-to-consumer parcels market.
Its express network, France Express, has launched Top Relais, a
delivery service for the e-commerce sector to run alongside its
existing home delivery service. Top Relais is a partnership with
Altiadis Distribution France to using à2pas tobacconists as a
collection network.
Through Top Relais, online shoppers can specify one of 3,100
à2pas outlets where their order will be delivered for collection.
Geodis Calberson has also opened a France Express hub in Lyon
Corbas. The hub offers next day delivery before midday to 36,000
cities in France.
Distance Selling Growing Nordic-wide
Distance selling in the Nordic region totalled more than SEK 70
billion in 2009 according to the results of research by Posten.
Previous surveys have charted growth in Swedish distance
selling and the latest study shows a similar trend in the Nordic
region as a whole. The company said it saw a clear trend that
more companies want to expand to reach all 25 million Nordic
consumers.
UPS Venture to Lead Middle East Growth
UPS has taken a majority stake in a new joint venture based in
Dubai that will coordinate growth in its services across the Middle
East.
Its partner with a minority stake in the venture is a Halek Undegar
who is chief executive of UPS’s Turkish service agent, Unsped
Paket Servisi San ve Ticaret. UPS has acquired Unsped which
becomes the basis of the new joint venture.
“This joint venture will spearhead growth among our other service
agents and operations in these countries,” said Dan Brutto, pres-
ident of UPS International.
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Itella Outsources to Tieto Itella has concluded two new IT infrastructure service agree-ments with Tieto so that it can concentrate on its billing and financial administration processes while outsourcing its data centre and managed services.
La Poste Upgrades in BrittanyLa Poste is to invest EUR 81 million in Brittany over the next three years. More than half will be spent on a new mail sorting centre south of Rennes with capacity to sort more than 2.7 million items a day.
Pos t Off i ce Network in Portugal GrowsA t t h e e n d o f 2 0 0 8 , CTT-Correios had 2,873 post off ices and agencies , 20 more than the previous year, according to Portuguese regulator ANACOM. Agents and franchisees handle only two percent of mail.
DHL Cuts Jobs in France DHL plans to cut a total of 285 jobs in France and transfer 150 workers to different loca-tions in response to falling shipping volumes. Most of the job losses, 225 and 140 transfers, will take place in the express division.
Revenue Growth and Profit Decline in EstoniaDPD Estonia recorded 24 percent revenue growth to EEK 121.2 million in 2008 but net profits dropped 13 percent to EEK 4.7 million. DHL Estonia generated 17 percent revenue growth to EEK 563 million in 2008, but net profits fell dramatically by 38.5 percent year-on-year to EEK 16 million.
Poste Italiane Fights Cyber CrimePoste Italiane and the United States Secret Service are to establish a European Elec-tronic Crime Task Force to identify and disseminate new techniques and methodol-ogies for fighting cyber crime. This is the first task force of its kind outside the US.
DHL Goes into GrosnyDHL Express has opened an office in Grosny, the capital of the Chechen Republic. According to media reports, industrial production in the Chechen Republic has grown considerably over the last few years with mining operations accounting for more than 60 percent of commercial sales volumes.
Russian Post Helps Fellow OperatorsRussian Post has signed a Memorandum of Under-standing with the Universal Postal Union (UPU) for the construction of a regional technology centre to support postal operators in eastern Europe and northern Asia. R u s s i a n P o s t h o p e s t o develop international postal and financial services in the regions profiting from the global financial system of UPU.
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Canada Post Calls for Five-Year Price Plan
Canada Post has applied for an amendment to Canada’s postal
act allowing annual increases in the tariff for a basic domestic
letter up to 30 grams.
It says it needs the additional revenue and the certainty of a
five-year pricing strategy to face the challenges of declining mail
volume, a rising number of delivery points and the need to replace
outdated equipment.
In January 2010, the standard letter rate is planned to increase
three cents to CAD 0.57, while between 2011 and 2014, the rate
will rise annually by two cents.
Canada Post president and chief executive Moya Greene said
a longer-term solution was needed to ensure that Canada Post
could continue meeting its universal service obligations.
Approximately 200,000 new addresses are added to the postal
delivery network each year adding an estimated CAD 26 million
in cost in 2008 alone. The number of mail items per address is
dropping - transactional mail declined by 87 million items in 2008.
Also, Canada Post’s equipment and infrastructure are in urgent
need of investment.
The company has been striving to reduce costs. It cut planned
spending by CAD 240 million in 2008 through increased produc-
tivity, natural wastage in the workforce and standardisation of
operating procedures. Further cost savings of CAD 250 million are
planned for 2009.
“Our 2010 pricing strategy is intended to better align our
revenues with the rising costs of maintaining our universal service
obligation,” said Ms. Greene. “At the same time, we are looking
at ways of reducing the costs of our postal operation in the long
term while bringing improvements to customers.”
FedEx and UPS Continue PR Battle
The acrimony between FedEx and UPS over a proposed law that
could make it easier to unionise FedEx has escalated with FedEx
claiming that UPS paid for the support of the American Conser-
vative Union (ACU).
An aviation bill approved in May by the US House of Representa-
tives is expected to gain a resolution in the Senate during July.
One section of the bill would remove FedEx employees from juris-
diction under the US Railway Labour Act and put them, like UPS
staff, under the National Labour Relations Act.
FedEx mounted a multi-million dollar PR campaign in June
attacking UPS for trying to gain a competitive advantage by
supporting the amendment.
Washington newspaper Politico reported that the ACU asked
FedEx for USD 2 million to USD 3 million for its support. The
paper said ACU switched sides to UPS after FedEx rejected the
request for payment. UPS denied it had paid for support and the
ACU executive vice president also denied the allegations and said
it had not taken money from UPS.
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Expanded UPS Air Hub Now in Operation
UPS has started operating the first phase of the USD 1.1 billion
expansion of its Worldport air hub at Louisville International
Airport, Kentucky, expecting to increase throughput to 350,000
packages an hour.
A spokesman, Mike Mangeot, commented: “While the economy
may be slow right now, we are planning for many years down
the road. We are building in capacity ... for when the economy
rebounds.”
The second phase of the expansion is scheduled to open in May
or June 2010. This involves another new wing and is expected to
increase capacity to 416,000 packages an hour.
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FedEx Delivers Early Next Day in Mexico F e d E x h a s l a u n c h e d a d o m e s t i c b e f o r e 0 8 . 3 0 hours next day service for specific zip codes in six states of Mexico. The service is operated by FedEx Express Nacional , the company’s domestic overnight unit in Mexico.
UPS Builds its Network in MexicoUPS Mexico has launched six new customer centres during the first quarter of 2009. Since the implementation of its expansion plan in 2006, UPS Mexico has extended its operational network in more than 300 locations thus growing by over 100 percent.
N e w H u b f o r F e d E x i n ChicagoFedEx Ground has opened a USD 125 million distribution hub in Chicago. At 131,064sq metres, the new facility is almost double the size of the hub it replaces and capable of processing 30,000 packages an hour.
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Asia-Pacific
DHL Opens Another Domestic Hub in China
DHL has opened its new eastern China domestic transportation
hub in Shanghai as part of a USD 25 million investment in
domestic road operations in the country.
It said that total revenue from the domestic road transport
industry in China rose by 66 percent between 1998 and 2007 to
USD 25 billion. Revenue is expected to reach USD 36 billion by
2013.
The new hub is located at the Kangqiao Industrial Park in the
Pudong area and is owned and operated in mainland China by
DHL Supply Chain. DHL’s domestic network comprises another 15
sub-regional hubs and covers more than 400 cities in China.
Rival Mail Service to Launch in New Zealand
New Zealand’s Croxley Stationery has negotiated an access deal
with New Zealand Post that allows its own mail to be delivered
through the postal system.
The company is launching a postal service that includes offering
stamps and pre-paid envelopes for sale in at a range of retail
outlets.
DHL Consultancy Attracts Multinationals
DHL’s Supply Chain Centre of Excellence (SCCE) in Singapore is
supporting local and foreign investors in the country by providing
supply chain infrastructure and market intelligence.
The SCCE has the support of Singapore’s economic development
board. It aims to enhance Singapore’s position as a logistics hub.
DHL claims its consultancy services have attracted multinationals
to set up their regional supply chain hubs in Singapore.
From July 13 to 15, DHL teamed up with Accenture to stage
the first Supply Chain Professional Series, an education and
knowledge-sharing programme for 30 industry practitioners. It
covered designs for effective and efficient global supply chain
management and strategic planning.
GeoPost Forms Air Express Venture in India
Groupe La Poste’s GeoPost subsidiary is setting up a joint venture
in India with Continental Air Express to offer outbound and
inbound express parcels services.
DPD Continental will be owned 60 percent by GeoPost Intercon-
tinental, the international expansion vehicle of GeoPost, and 40
percent by the Vohra family, owners of the Continental Carriers
Group, of which Continental Air Express was a member.
Initially, the joint venture, headquartered in Delhi, will offer
services in New Delhi and Mumbai. A second phase will roll
out operations across several major cities including Bangalore,
Chennai and Kolkatta by the end of 2009.
GeoPost said DPD Continental would offer value-for-money
services for worldwide and domestic distribution to help
customers optimise their supply chain.
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Postal Services Group Chooses Google Apps
New Zealand Post subsidiary Postal Services Group is to transfer
its email communication to internet-based Google Apps under a
three-year agreement with Fronde, a Google enterprise partner in
New Zealand.
Google Apps will be rolled out to 2,100 employees. Chief exec-
utive Peter Fenton said it would supply productivity tools that
would make it easier to work more creatively, collaboratively and
flexibly.
“With Google Apps there will be a dramatic increase in mail box
capacity from 50Mb to 25Gb, boosting productivity by freeing
employees from having to constantly manage email back-ups,”
he said.
He added that Google Apps would simplify document sharing in
a secure environment internally or to people working remotely:
“Moving to web-based tools means people can work securely
from anywhere at any time using any web-based device,” he said.
DHL Invests in Packaging Services
DHL has moved into the packaging market in Asia-Pacific with
the launch of an MYR 2 million packaging centre in Shah Alam,
Malaysia.
The company has plans to establish six more centres in the region
by 2012. Packaging services currently account for 25 percent
of the contract logistics market in Asia-Pacific and DHL expects
demand to rise.
“We expect business to grow by 15 percent year-on-year over the
next three years,” said Paul H. Graham, chief executive officer of
DHL Supply Chain Asia-Pacific.
D H L S h o w s i t s A u t o m o t i v e S e c t o r Leadership
DHL is building its reputation and a leader in the automotive
sector, unveiling a plan to support India’s industry at its Auto-
motive India Conference.
It has identified key logistics factors in three core areas: inbound
manufacturing supplies; the aftermarket and the interna-
tional supply chain. These, it says, will determine the success of
companies in India.
“With the changing automotive landscape in India, there is a need
for closer collaboration between the original equipment manufac-
turers (OEMs) and logistics service providers,” said Kalpesh Pathak,
assistant vice president corporate supply chain management, Fiat
India. “DHL has come in at the right time to provide an interactive
platform where all the companies come together to have an open
exchange of our challenges and solutions.”
Recognizing that opportunities and challenges are resulting in
longer, more complex supply chains requiring more control, DHL
emphasised the need to maximize economies of scale, re-en-
gineer manufacturing productivity and boost logistics efficiency
for growth as the automotive market recovers.
Within India, DHL has dedicated automotive teams providing stra-
tegic consulting for international and local customers.
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