Brazil: DHL invests USD 20 million to expand

With the aim of two-folding the size of the Brazilian operations in a short-term DHL Express wants to expand the participation of big companies in its client portfolio. The company intends to have 80% of its income with the big companies. The remainder 20% would come from the small and middle sized companies. Presently 40% of the income comes from the big companies and 60% from the small and middle sized. Of the US$20mil to be invested in Brazil this year half is being injected in automation and IT. DHL is implementing among other technologies the wireless scanner in vehicles for the real time reading of bar code. Other US$10mil will be invested to expand the vehicles fleet from 340 to 430 units until the end of the year and in the implementation of new selling points and own branches all over Brazil. The selling points known as Express Centers shall two-fold until the end of the year, to 300.