POST
Labour Agreements
PostNL has now secured acceptance from all the relevant trade unions for its corporate collective labour agreement (CLA) and also the Saturday deliverer CLA.
https://postandparcel.info/91392
Royal Mail Report
Royal Mail has responded to the report prepared by Professor Lynette Harris, the mediator for the talks between Royal Mail and the CWU on pay and pensions.
https://postandparcel.info/91235
PARCEL
Postcode Penalty
A report from Consumer Advice Scotland has urged the public and private sectors to work together on ways to reduce parcel surcharging by creating a less costly operating environment in the north and west of Scotland.
https://postandparcel.info/91407
Seasonal Surge
New Zealand Post is expecting to handle 20% more parcels this December, compared to last year.
https://postandparcel.info/91371
E-COMMERCE
Target Buying Shipt
US retail giant Target has agreed to buy the same-day delivery platform Shipt for $550 million in cash.
https://postandparcel.info/91658
Currys In A Hurry
Electrical retailer Currys PC World has partnered with On the dot to launch a same-day delivery service across the UK.
https://postandparcel.info/91368
Smeg Contract
The UK-based two-person home delivery company ArrowXL has won a four-year contract with home appliance manufacturer Smeg UK.
https://postandparcel.info/91359
INNOVATION
Self Driving Into The Future?
DHL Chief Commercial Officer Bill Meahl has argued that “a fully autonomous future is likely further away than some think”, but we still “need to be thinking about an autonomous future now”.
https://postandparcel.info/91405
High-Speed Sortation
Specialist mailroom outsourcing and timed delivery expert CMS has announced the launch of its new technology which sorts up to 20,000 items per hour with the unique ability to take an image of every item as it passes through their network.
https://postandparcel.info/91172
Tomorrow, Today
The annual DHL Innovation Day, which took place in Germany on 7 December, brought together supply chain professionals, entrepreneurs and startups to “reimagine the future of tech in the industry”.
https://postandparcel.info/91340
INFRASTRUCTURE
Berlin Logistics Centre
Hermes has commissioned a new logistics centre in Berlin-Brandenburg.
https://postandparcel.info/91578/
Road Review
Highways England has published its Strategic Road Network Initial Report.
https://postandparcel.info/91574
Europa Restructure
Europa Worldwide Group has announced a new corporate structure, whereby all the divisions of the business – Road, Air and Sea, Showfreight and Warehouse – will become separate limited companies.
https://postandparcel.info/91380
SUSTAINABILITY
Electric Freight
DHL Freight has taken delivery of two FUSO eCanters electric trucks which it will use to make deliveries in Berlin’s city centre.
https://postandparcel.info/91665
Ending Empty Runnings
Work has started on FreightShare Lab (FSL), a new collaborative research project focused on tackling the transport inefficiencies associated with empty and partially laden truck-running.
