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Global postal industry shows solid growth trend for full year 2018
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The global postal industry strengthened its growth figures in 2018, thus clearly indicating that continued diversification and efficiency measures are paying off. Increasing B2C parcels and express volumes – both domestic and cross-border – supported revenue growth for many posts. In 2018, the global postal industry registered year-on-year revenue growth of 4.3% , according to preliminary results published today by International Post Corporation (IPC).
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Holger Winklbauer, CEO of IPC said: “Postal industry revenue is growing solidly despite ongoing traditional mail decline. More than two thirds of posts analysed saw year-on-year growth of 1% or more, which clearly demonstrates that they continue to develop through broadening their service offerings and improving their existing network and efficiency. E-commerce does remain the main and common growth driver and posts are expanding their networks and capacity to respond to the increasing demands.”
Winklbauer continued: “The ongoing increase in cross-border e-commerce volumes, mainly driven by lightweight and low-value items, represents an opportunity for postal operators worldwide. For them to fully reap the potential of e-commerce, posts must offer an integrated cross-border delivery platform including a delivery duty payment system upfront.”
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Croatian Post becomes IPC member
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On 1 July 2019, Croatian Post joined International Post Corporation as a member, following a decision of IPC’s shareholders meeting which took place in Bonn on 23 May.
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Croatian Post was founded as an independent company in 1999. With 1,016 post offices throughout the country, Croatian Post counts more than 10,000 employees and serves more than 150,000 customers per day.
Croatian Post, which introduced a new logo and visual identity last week, is seeing significant new investments. The most important investment worth almost €50m is the construction of a new sorting centre near Velika Gorica.
Croatian Post is organised in four divisions:
• The Postal Service Division is in charge of transport, sorting and delivery of postal items. • The Network Division manages the network of post offices.
• The Express Services Division is in charge of express delivery
• The Support Services Division is in charge of real property, IT infrastructure, accounting, controlling, maintenance and modernisation of post offices.
At the 2019 IPC Annual Conference Croatian Post’s CEO, Ivan Culo, gave an interview. Click here to watch it.
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IPC Market Watch
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IPC has published the Market Watch Q1 2019, the fourth iteration of the report.
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Drawing on quarterly and interim data from over 19 postal operators, the Market Watch provides an overview of the latest trends impacting the industry as well as the financial performance of postal operators.
Despite slower overall corporate and parcel division revenue growth in Q1’19, mail profitability remained strong in the face of volume and revenue decline. Posts are also investing in parcel networks to accommodate growing B2C e-commerce volumes. To read more, head to the Market Watch page on the IPC website.
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Market News
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The latest news in the postal sector
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FedEx Logistics Renames Australia Acquisition Reflecting Growing Capabilities in Australasia Region
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FedEx Logistics, Inc., a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), has announced the renaming of Manton Air-Sea Pty Ltd, a freight forwarding and 3PL company it acquired in October 2018, as FedEx Logistics (Australia) Pty Ltd.
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FedEx Logistics Australia, which is headquartered in Sydney and has locations in Melbourne and Brisbane, offers the entire suite of FedEx Logistics specialty global logistics solutions. The newly renamed company gives customers access to key trade lanes, allowing them to both build their supply chains within Australia and connect to vital consumer markets throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. Growth industries like healthcare, automotive, aerospace, industrial, retail, e-commerce and other high-tech fields are among key targets for FedEx Logistics Australia. In addition to flexible ocean and air freight forwarding, the company also offers less-than-container load (LCL) capabilities, warehousing and distribution, customs brokerage, and trade consulting services to customize solutions to meet customers’ global trade needs.
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28 June 2019 ■ UPS
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UPS Commends The U.S. And UAE On Reaffirming Open Skies Agreement
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UPS (NYSE: UPS), a global logistics provider and leading advocate for global trade, welcomes the outcome of the Sixth U.S.-UAE Economic Policy Dialogue, particularly the commitment of both parties to fully maintain all aspects of the Open Skies relationship.
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02 July 2019 ■ Swiss Post
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Denise Koopmans and Thomas Bucher appointed to Swiss Post’s Board of Directors
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The Extraordinary General Meeting of Swiss Post, held on 2 July 2019, appointed Denise Koopmans and Thomas Bucher as members of the Swiss Post Board of Directors. They replace Marco Durrer and Myriam Meyer, who did not stand for reappointment this spring. Denise Koopmans possesses extensive experience in the fields of IT technology and digitization, while Thomas Bucher brings his expertise in finance and accounting to the Board of Directors.
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03 June 2019 ■ Deutsche Post DHL
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DHL Global Trade Barometer reflects deteriorating global trade due to prevailing negative sentiment in private sector
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For the first time since its launch in January 2018, the DHL Global Trade Barometer indicates a slight contraction of worldwide trade for the next three months. These losses led to an overall drop in the world trade outlook by -8 points, to a new index value of 48. In other words, world trade – forecasted by trade flows in intermediaries and early-cycle commodities – is expected to decline in the coming three months, albeit mildly. The overall decline was driven by significant losses for both air and containerized ocean trade, which are the GTB’s two fundamental constituents. Air trade declined by -6 to 49 points, and containerized ocean trade by -8 points to 48 index points.
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State aid: Commission opens in-depth investigation into capital injections in favour of PostNord and Post Danmark
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The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether certain capital injections granted by Denmark and Sweden to PostNord and Post Danmark are in line with EU State aid rules
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Post Danmark is the national postal operator in Denmark and a wholly owned subsidiary of PostNord, which is incorporated in Sweden and owned by the Danish (40%) and Swedish (60%) States. In October 2017, the Swedish and Danish authorities agreed bilaterally to carry out capital injections in PostNord and Post Danmark. In November 2017, the Commission received a complaint from the Association for the Danish road transport of goods (ITD) alleging that certain Danish and Swedish capital injections in Post Danmark amounted to illegal State aid.
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27 June 2019 ■ Austrian Post
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Austrian Post takes over three logistics centers and ten delivery depots from DHL Paket
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New regulations for the delivery of standard parcels by Deutsche Post DHL Group to private recipients in Austria will become effective from 1 August 2019. According to the German Federal Cartel Office on 26 June, the Austrian Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor approved the planned takeover of locations of the Deutsche Post DHL Group in Austria by the Austrian Post under certain conditions.
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26 June 2019 ■ Gov.uk
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Medicines and medical products supply: government updates no-deal Brexit plans
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will lead a procurement exercise to secure an ‘express freight service’. It will transport small medical supply consignments into the UK within 24 hours if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
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27 June 2019 ■ Posti
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Posti has completed the mail delivery competitive tenderingprocess for 2019
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Posti has completed the competitive tendering process for 2019 for the procurement of five-day delivery for universal service letters in areas without early-morning newspaper delivery as required by the Postal Act. In addition, Posti wanted to voluntarily pilot tendering of a larger service portfolio in two areas; Rääkkylä and Virolahti.
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About this newsletter
The biweekly YourIPC newsletter provides you with recent news items and updates on the postal sector as well as IPC's activities.
The IPC Regulatory Flash newsletter provides you with recent news items and updates on regulatory affairs in the postal sector. It is produced by the Regulatory department and is sent exclusively to IPC member posts. For more information on this publication, please contact [email protected]
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