Emirates Post recently signed an agreement with Global Alliance of Transportation Systems (GATS), the UK-based subsidiary of Swiss Post International, to distribute European mail to the Gulf and Middle East countries through Emirates Post’s Dubai Airport Mail Transit Hub.
The deal, valid for five years, authorizes Emirates Post to handle GATS’ mail addressed to Middle East countries using the Mail Transit Hub located at Dubai International Airport.
GATS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swiss Post International, has been operating its own modern airmail distribution hub since January 2001 from a location close to London’s Heathrow Airport. European postal organizations and large companies can now send mail with considerable quality improvements and cost-effectiveness, as a result of the bundling of airmail consignments.
The Dubai Airport Mail Transit Hub, operated by Emirates Post, receives and redistributes mail to various regional countries. Under the hub concept, partner operators dispatch Gulf-bound mail in sealed containers to Dubai, where the individual bags are sorted and forwarded to respective destinations, using computer-based dispatch management systems that capture arrival and dispatch data. This data provides customers with automatic confirmation of receipt and dispatch of their mail.
The Dubai Airport Mail Transit Hub, set up two years ago, is becoming the preferred mail routing center for mail bound for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Middle East, North and East Africa, the Far East, Australia and India. — (menareport.com)
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