The existing partnership between Emirates Post and Deutsche Post is set to gain further momentum following a recent agreement between the two postal corporations to further promote the Dubai hub under the GLOBALMATCH initiative.
“Our strategic alliance with Deutsche Post embraces several business areas, including mail consolidation through the GLOBALMATCH network of hubs,” said Director General of Emirates Post, Abdulla Al-Daboos.
The new agreement between Emirates Post and Deutsche Post supports and underpins the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in March 2003, when a delegation visited Dubai. The MoU agreed to pursue enhanced business cooperation, including expanded scope the mail transit hub at Dubai airport.
Deutsche Post's GLOBALMATCH is pushing ahead with plans to open new hubs and gain new business from postal administrations by offering bulk transportation rates at more advantageous prices than the rates normally available to individual operators.
The Dubai Airport Mail Transit Hub, established two years ago, has emerged as the regional mail hub for mail bound for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the rest of the Middle East, North and East Africa, the Far East, Australia and Indian Subcontinent. The Dubai airport hub has entered into service agreements with major postal companies, including British Royal Mail and GATS, a subsidiary of Swiss Post International.
The total mail handled by the hub in 2003 is set to cross 1,000 tonn, an increase of 70 percent over the 2002 figures. — (menareport.com)
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