What Poste Italiane and DHL will do in the parcel market
Poste Italiane and Deutsche Post Dhk have signed a strategic partnership in the Italian and international parcel market. All the details and what happens to the parcel market in Italy
Poste Italiane joins forces with the German DHL to strengthen its market for parcels to and from abroad.
The group led by Matteo Del Fante and Deutsche Post DHL Group (DHL), a leading German company in the logistics sector, have signed a strategic partnership in the Italian and international parcel market.
"This important agreement is another step in our strategic path to confirm ourselves as an all-round logistics operator and offer our customers a range of products dedicated to the international market", commented Matteo Del Fante, CEO and General Manager of Poste Italiane, adding that “DHL is the ideal partner to better connect our Italian customers to international markets, with shipments to and from abroad and a network of latest generation automatic lockers, in addition to the already existing e-commerce solutions” .
The move follows the growth trend of parcel delivery services in our country (including national and cross-border services, whether or not included in the universal service) which recorded an increase of 3.6% in the first nine months of 2022, as certified by the latest Agcom report.
The agreement comes close to the Poste Italiane accounts: on March 14, the Italian company will present the preliminary results for 2022.
All the details.
THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE POSTAL AND DHL
Specifically, the partnership between Poste Italiane and DHL is based on four key points.
Thanks to the extensive network of access to Poste Italiane services, customers will be able to make urgent shipments through the DHL Express global network by delivering them to any of the Poste Italiane collection points. Furthermore, DHL eCommerce Solutions, together with Poste Italiane, will install modern, sustainable and easy-to-use automatic lockers in strategic locations throughout Italy. Finally, DHL eCommerce Solutions will support Poste Italiane by delivering parcels across its European network and Poste Italiane will support DHL eCommerce Solutions by delivering international parcels in Italy.
WHAT DEUTSCHE POST DOES DHL GROUP
In particular, Deutsche Post DHL Group comprises two major brands: DHL offers a full range of international express and parcel services, freight transport and supply chain management, as well as e-commerce solutions. Deutsche Post is the leading European postal operator.
The Deutsche Post DHL group has approximately 600,000 employees in over 220 countries and territories. Last year it recorded more than 94 billion euros in revenues.
DHL'S STRATEGY
“By combining Poste Italiane's extraordinary potential and national infrastructure with our global network and experience in international trade, we will be able to make the most of each other's strengths with a truly effective partnership. E-commerce is not only one of the four 'megatrends' identified in our Group strategy, but it is also one of the main growth drivers of our business. We believe that our partnership will succeed in offering high quality to customers and responding to the growing demand for efficient and sustainable solutions,” said Tobias Meyer, CEO-designate of Deutsche Post DHL Group.
HOW IS THE POSTAL PARCEL BUSINESS
While waiting to know Poste Italiane's 2022 results, it should be recalled that in the third quarter of last year , revenues from the Mail, Parcels and Distribution segment recorded a decrease of 0.9% to €843 million, compared to €851 million in the third quarter. quarter of 2021 (-1.3% YoY to €2.6 billion in the first nine months of 2022).
Examining the parcels segment in detail, in the third quarter of 2022 revenues recovered, reaching 328 million, up by 4.5% year on year (-2.6% year on year compared to the first nine months of 2021, equal to 991 million in the first nine months of 2022), mainly due to higher volumes in the B2C segment, which increased by 15.5% year on year to 44 million units (-3.6% compared to the first nine months of 2021, equal to 125 million in the first nine months of 2022).
GROWING SEGMENT
The segment recorded a growth of 24 percentage points compared to the same period of 2020 – with decreasing tariffs due to a mix effect on volumes. In the first nine months, parcel rates grew by 4% on an annual basis. In the third quarter of 2022, volumes in the B2B segment decreased by 14.3%, year on year, to 8 million units (-12.6% compared to the first nine months of 2021, equal to 27 million units in the first nine months of 2022), while volumes of the C2X segment are down by 7.6% year on year to 1.1 million units compared to the third quarter of 2021 (-20.1% compared to the first nine months of 2021, equal to 3.5 million units in the first nine months of 2022).
POSTE ITALIANE MAJOR OPERATOR IN THE POSTAL SECTOR, BUT COMPETITION IS STRONGER IN PARCELS
Finally, in the latest Communications Observatory of the Italian Communications Authority relating to the first nine months of 2022, in the first nine months of the year, compared to the corresponding period of 2021, an overall increase of 2, 2% in the postal sector, with parcel delivery services (including national and cross-border services, whether or not included in the universal service) registering an increase of 3.6%, while mail services (within or outside the universal service ) are down overall by 2.5%.
Among the former, cross-border parcel delivery services (with national sender and foreign recipient, or vice versa) grew by 4.9%, while domestic ones (with sender and recipient in the national territory) show, exceeding 3 billion euros, a more modest increase of 3.1%. Among the mail services, those not included in the Universal Service showed an increase of 3.9% while those included decreased by 7.3%.
The competitive framework of the sector as a whole (mail and parcel delivery services, whether or not included in the universal service) confirmed the Poste Italiane Group as the main operator with an overall share of 34.1% (albeit down by 2. 3 percentage points on an annual basis); followed by Amazon (14.4%) and BRT (13.8%). Looking at the competitive structure of the individual market components, the Poste Italiane group dominates the mail services sector with a 96.3% share.
On the other hand, the parcel segment is characterized by a more accentuated competitive dynamic, with Amazon as the market leader with 18.6%, followed by BRT (with 17.8%), the Poste Italiane Group (15.9%), DHL (13.4%) and by GLS and UPS, both with weights just under 13%.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia-on-demand/cosa-faranno-poste-italiane-e-dhl-nel-mercato-dei-pacchi/ on Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:31:34 +0000.