DHL develops new car transportation solutions
DHL Global Forwarding has developed two transport solutions for the automotive industry – a transport box and a double car rack. The collapsible C3SB transport box and the double car rack facilitate the loading of vehicles and increase efficiency in using transport capacity.
In addition, both systems offer protection against damage due to external factors during transport by air, sea and road, such as turbulences, heavy seas or poor roads.
Both transport solutions have now been patented by the German Patent Office.
“The transport box and the car rack offer clients from the automotive sector top-end solutions in terms of safety and flexibility of transport. They again underscore our comprehensive competency with respect to logistics for one of the most important industry sectors worldwide,” said Hermann Ude, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding, Freight.
DHL automotive experts based the C3SB box on the principle of the collapsible boxes used in many households. Their sides fold inward to rest on the bottom of the box. This represents a major further improvement of efficiency compared to the previous C2SB model already successfully used.
The movable walls and the cover of the so-called “Customized Car Safety Box” already provided sufficient space and the required flexibility needed when loading the vehicles and making them safe for transport.
The C3SB version with its collapsible walls now enables several empty boxes to be piled on top of each other, which therefore occupy only one space during transport.
In addition, the car rack can be used to store two sedan-sized vehicles on top of each other in a container. As a result, two cars also need only one space in the main cargo hold of a Boeing 747, for instance.
