DHL moves up to third in US express package delivery market
After FedEx and UPS, the No. 3 player in the U.S. express package delivery market is DHL, which has a major air hub at Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky International Airport.
Although DHL is No. 3 in the U.S., its international operations are much larger, especially in Europe, where its parent company is based.
DHL went from a bit player in the U.S. market to No. 3 last year with the USD1 billion acquisition of Seattle-based Airborne Express, which had trailed UPS and FedEx in express deliveries.
Airborne has a major hub in Wilmington, Ohio, and DHL is considering consolidating the two.
As part of the acquisition, DHL spun off ABX Air to run the air operations in Wilmington. The spin-off was part of the deal to keep German-owned DHL from running afoul of U.S. regulations barring foreign ownership of airlines.
More than 6,000 work at DHL’s Wilmington facility, where more than 1 million packages are processed each day.
DHL employs about 1,200 workers at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport, including 400 full-time. Another 1,000 work for Astar, the airline that serves DHL.
DHL offers air express service to 120,000 destinations worldwide. It has 188 hubs and 238 gateways.
Total employment is 150,000, in about 5,000 locations.
