DHL connects up Central Asia with Kazakhstan freight facility
DHL Freight has opened a new office in Kazakhstan, which it says will help open up direct transport routes to key hubs in Europe, Russia and China. The new facility in the country’s largest city, Almaty, offers a strategically important location to boost the flow of goods between the major markets of Asia and Europe.
The location offers good transport links being at the crossroads of two major transport routes – the Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia and the Great Almaty Circle Motor Road.
DHL said the facility would help cut transit times for customers, while helping the development of Kazakhstan itself.
DHL has been operating in Kazakhstan since 2007 through DHL Global Forwarding, where it coordinates ocean and air freight transport from six offices across the central Asian country of 16.6m people.
The firm said the new facility and the road freight services it facilitates will supplement its existing business in Kazakhstan and reinforce its logistics network.
Stefano Arganese, CEO of DHL Freight Central Eastern Southern Europe & Americas, Middle East, Africa, said: “This new transit point makes a faster delivery time for our customers possible – not only for Europe, Russia and China but also in Kazakhstan itself. At the same time, this investment will contribute to further economic growth of this country, which has the key role as the access point to Central Asia.”
DHL said its new facility has been established in the largest warehouse park in the fast-growing industrial area close to Almaty.
The site includes a range of logistics services, from bonded warehousing and customs brokerage services to online tracking, registration and maintenance of goods via a warehouse management system.
The company said container terminal services available at the facility include cross-docking, shunting and crane services, and customers and bonded storage.
