DPD expands express services to international destinations
German parcels carrier DPD announced today it will expand its year-old domestic express services to international destinations over the coming months following a successful of for the new product.
DPD will start to offer international express between Germany and the Benelux states in May, and also offer domestic express within the three countries. Further countries neighbouring Germany will be added later in the year.
“The express services with delivery by 08:30, 10:00, 12:00 or 18:00 that we re-positioned in 2007 have made a superb start,” commented CEO Arnold Schroven. “We have gained 15,000 new express customers and volumes have increased by 60%,” he disclosed. Schroven said he expected double-digit growth rates for express shipments again this year.
DPD had achieved a very high delivery quality rate of 99.6% for express items, based on its highly-efficient transportation network with direct traffic between nearly all German depots, Schroven emphasised. Quality would play an important role in the future, and new express services would be intensively tested before being introduced, he added.
German parcels carrier DPD announced today it will expand its year-old domestic express services to international destinations over the coming months following a successful of for the new product.
DPD will start to offer international express between Germany and the Benelux states in May, and also offer domestic express within the three countries. Further countries neighbouring Germany will be added later in the year.
“The express services with delivery by 08:30, 10:00, 12:00 or 18:00 that we re-positioned in 2007 have made a superb start,” commented CEO Arnold Schroven. “We have gained 15,000 new express customers and volumes have increased by 60%,” he disclosed. Schroven said he expected double-digit growth rates for express shipments again this year.
DPD had achieved a very high delivery quality rate of 99.6% for express items, based on its highly-efficient transportation network with direct traffic between nearly all German depots, Schroven emphasised. Quality would play an important role in the future, and new express services would be intensively tested before being introduced, he added.
