Tag: DHL Express

DHL Mexico to Invest USD12 mln to modernise transport fleet

Posted by | Sep 27, 2005 | |

DHL Mexico, the Mexican unit of German express delivery services provider DHL Express, will invest USD12 mln (9.98 mln euro) to renovate its transport fleet, the vice president for operations of the Mexican unit, Luis Humberto Erana, said on September 26, 2005. DHL Mexico plans to buy 36 light trucks Mercedes Benz, as well as 32 light trucks M2 from US truck producer Freightliner LLC. The aim of DHL Mexico is to transport a total 300 tonnes of documents and packages daily in the Latin American country.

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DHL Express to set up 10 new centres in India

Posted by | Sep 23, 2005 | |

DHL Express (India) Pvt Ltd is investing USD10 million to set up 10 new centres during 2005 and 2006. It has a share of 60 percent in the domestic express shipments market. The company intends to maintain its annual growth rate of 25 percent.

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Hong Kong-Shanghai: DHL stays competitive by increasing capacity 35%

Posted by | Aug 25, 2005 | |

DHL said Wednesday that it has upgraded its uplift capacity on the Hong Kong-Shanghai sector by 35 percent in response to the tremendous growth in demand express services in Asia. According to Jerry Hsu, president for Greater China and Korea at DHL Express, the five times weekly Hong Kong-Shanghai service, previously operated by a Dragonair A300B4, has been replaced by a Cathay Pacific-operated service with an Air Hong Kong Airbus A300-600GF. The Freighter, with a capacity of 47 tonnes, represents an increase in payload capacity of almost 35 percent, from 35 tonnes previously, he said. He added that DHL last upgraded the payload capacity on this route in June 2004, 12 months after the service was first launched, in response to increasing demand and surging intra-Asia shipment volumes.

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Deutsche Post says US DHL Express unit improving

Posted by | Aug 23, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post World Net said its DHL express business in the U.S. was improving as a result of better management, while growth in Asia and emerging markets remained strong. John Mullen, a joint chief executive of the company’s express division DHL, told an analyst conference that the Bonn-based mail and logistics company expected its U.S. DHL business to break even in the fourth quarter of next year. For 2005, the company reiterated that DHL expects a loss of EUR300 million in the U.S. Despite difficulties and strong competition from United Parcel Service and FedEx, DHL said the U.S. business was seeing improvements in service and quality. DHL said it would work to streamline operations by focusing on cost control, productivity and revenue improvements. “The second-half financial targets for the U.S. are ambitious but achievable,” Mullen said in the business update.

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DHL Vietnam launches first QC center

Posted by | Jul 14, 2005 | |

DHL Express Vietnam opened its first quality control center in Vietnam on July 7. The center in Tan Binh District, HCM City, is the first of the quality control centers to be set up by DHL in the country. Ephakol Ponstabhon, country manager of DHL Express Vietnam, said new technologies would be applied at the center to ensure shipment information would be available quickly on the network.

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