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DHL USA expands in Louisville

Posted by | May 2, 2007 | |

DHL announced the opening of a new facility near the Louisville International Airport in Kentucky. DHL has invested USD 2.7 million in the new service center facility, consolidating all local operations to enhance services for DHL customers shipping to and from the region.

The new, 64,000-sq.-ft. service center combines a facility east of Louisville and DHL’s previous operations near the airport to one service center strategically located across from Standiford Field. The location is home to DHL’s local pickup, delivery and sorting operations, and provides a base for local sales employees.

The pickup and delivery footprint for the new facility includes cities in and around the Louisville, Ky. metro area, east to Indiana including Austin, and as far South as cities along the Tennessee border. The new Louisville service center will handle a wide variety of shipments – including domestic and international parcels as well as palletized, loose-load and container freight.

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Global package race puts major carriers to the test

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

How hard is it to deliver a package to Ouagadougou? A group from the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, one of the most respected logistics programs in the world, puts the major carriers (UPS, FedEx and DHL) to the test every year with its Great Package Race, a contest to see which carrier can get a package to a very challenging locale the fastest and in the best condition.
A group of 60 logistics students, led by logistics expert John Bartholdi, a professor in the Stewart School, sends identical boxes bound for places like Lomé, Togo and Split, Croatia. With no indication that there’s a competition underway, each carrier picks up its parcel, and the race begins.

Admittedly, the race is an extreme test of the carriers’ ability to deliver anywhere in the world, Bartholdi said. This year’s packages were sent on April 13 to Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Burma); Tikrit, Iraq (one of the centers of Sunni insurgency); Floranopolis, Brazil (a small island); Harare, Zimbabwe and Apia, Samoa. Most packages arrived with a week or two, but one has yet to be delivered or returned.

DHL beat the competition this year, delivering first to three of the five locations and second to the remaining two. FedEx managed to deliver to three locations, and UPS delivered parcels to two. The remaining packages from FedEx and UPS went undelivered for a variety of reasons. In past races, the carriers traded wins in different locales.

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DHL awarded at 2007 Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

DHL announced that it has won six top awards – Best Express Operator, Best Lead Logistics Provider, Best 3PL, Best Air Freight Forwarder, Best Project Cargo Forwarder and Best Sea Freight Forwarder – at the prestigious 2007 Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards (AFSCAs). Receiving a total of six awards at the ceremony in Macau on 25 April reflects the company’s dominance as the only logistics provider that is able to offer integrated supply chain solutions across the entire express and logistics industry range from a single contact point.

The win in the highly coveted Best Express Operator Award category, for a record 21st consecutive year, is highly significant as DHL is the only company to have won this award since its introduction in 1987 at the Asian Freight Industry Awards – the predecessor of the AFSCAs. Receiving these six awards is a further affirmation of DHL’s market leadership and service excellence in air express and logistics offerings in Asia Pacific. The awards acknowledge DHL for its best-in-class expertise in each of its integrated service areas, covering express, air and ocean freight forwarding, as well as contract logistics.

The awards follow a series of recent DHL initiatives to strengthen and enhance service offerings in Asia Pacific to tap growth opportunities in the region. These include a USD35 million investment in Hong Kong for the opening of a new facility in South Kowloon; USD14 million in Vietnam for network and infrastructure upgrades and USD22 million for a new DHL Express Bangkok Hub. DHL’s investments in Asia Pacific sum up to an impressive over USD1.7 billion.

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