Tag: DHL

Berlin mayor presents DHL GoGreen parcel to Bill Clinton

Posted by | May 17, 2007 | |

During the Large Cities Climate Summit in New York City on May 16th, Klaus Wowereit, Mayor of Berlin, met with former President Bill Clinton to present him with a DHL GoGreen carbon-neutral parcel containing cultural gifts from Berlin. The parcel was among more than a dozen that DHL transported to New York City from Berlin using its unique GoGreen service. DHL is the first logistics provider to offer customers the option to help offset emissions stemming from their shipments by paying a small voluntary fee. The DHL verified Carbon Management system guarantees that the money is invested in internal and external carbon-reduction projects such as alternative fuel vehicles, solar cells and reforestation projects. Launched in Europe in late 2006, DHL intends to expand the GoGreen service to other regions including the United States over the next few years. President Clinton was the principal speaker at the Climate Summit that evening.

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Microlise, DHL and Aeroscout pioneer new monitoring solution

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

DHL in partnership with Microlise and AeroScout, has developed a dynamic new system for the pharmaceutical industry which enables the real-time monitoring of product shipment temperatures throughout an extended supply chain using RFID sensors.

DHL, Microlise and AeroScout partnered with a leading healthcare company to develop a system that will help customers better meet temperature compliance regulations set within the pharmaceutical industry. With this system, we will have full real-time visibility of the location and temperature of it’s the pharmaceutical shipments throughout the supply chain, through a web browser linked to the Microlise Transport Management Centre (TMC) software. The TMC enables real time tracking of the vehicle position along with the temperature indication from the Wi-Fi-Based AeroScout Active RFID tags which are used to monitor the shipments.

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DHL in online shipping deal with Germany's 1&1

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

DHL Express Germany has signed a cooperation deal with internet service company 1&1 Internet AG for online trading. Operators of 1&1-hosted “e-shops” can now use DHL for their shipping requirements.

With this new service, 1&1 is expanding its all-inclusive offer for small businesses and the self-employed. The entire e-shop, including order management and goods transportation, can now be handled through one single platform, DHL Express said in a statement.

“The cooperation with DHL enables us to offer a complete solution for the whole process chain”, said Andreas Gauger, CEO of 1&1 Internet AG.

E-shop operators can print out DHL parcel labels, track shipments online and offer customers the option of using a DHL Packstation as an alternative delivery address.

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DHL completes system-wide sort automation

Posted by | May 14, 2007 | |

DHL has completed the sort automation of its major ground hub in Allentown, Pa. With the completion of the automation at the Allentown facility, the entire USD 160 million DHL network integration and automation initiative, which included key air and ground hubs in Wilmington, Ohio, and Riverside, Calif., is now complete.

The network system upgrades make DHL operations more efficient, increase letter-and-package processing capabilities and provide customers with increased track-and-trace package visibility. DHL projects to generate an approximate 13 percent improvement in network wide shipment capacity, in addition to improved operational efficiencies, as a result of the completion of the automation programs at all three hubs.

New state-of-the-art equipment at the Allentown facility includes shoe-sort and tilt-tray systems, loaders, unloaders, singulators, dimensional and image scanners, scan tunnels and video coding. Key customer benefits of the automation effort in Allentown include greater letter-and-package visibility through the auto sort system’s track-and-trace features as well as increased speed in the handling and processing of shipments. With the transition to auto sort functions in Allentown, letter-handling capabilities will improve by 67 percent and package throughput will increase by 85 percent.

In March 2007, automation programs were completed at DHL’s USD 70 million West Coast facility in Riverside, serving the western U.S. as well as an expanded DHL footprint for one-day ground services across California and Arizona. DHL’s principal air and ground hub in Wilmington fully completed its automation program in January 2007.

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Argentina: DHL grows 100% in five years locally

Posted by | May 13, 2007 | |

DHL was founded back in 1969 by Messrs Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn of the US; thirty years later, it became part of the Deutsche Post World Net group with a world turnover of around Euro 60bil. DHL’s express delivery and logistics services are available in 220 countries. In Argentina, it has invested USD 40mil and has been run by Norberto Lovaglio for the last six years (the executive was also made regional vice-president for Hispano-America earlier this year).
Locally, DHL has extended its international courier system and has begun working with local domestic post. Over the last five years, DHL’s Argentinian operations have expanded 101%: starting off in the year 2000, it had a 27% market share and it now has 50% of the market. The firm can be expected to try to buy up other operations soon but it does not, according to Lovaglio, plan to bid for Correo Argentina if the latter’s reprivatisation is called.

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