Tag: DHL

DHL confident of growing in tandem with Asia-Pac region

Posted by | Apr 17, 2007 | |

DHL’s logistics division will use its Singapore base to further develop its healthcare and life sciences and aerospace sectors, two areas which it sees chalking up attractive growth rates in the future.

With Asia-Pacific to contribute about half of global trade growth over the next few years and the growing consumer markets of China and India driving the region, DHL is confident of growing in tandem with the region as ‘forwarding grows, as trade grows’.

And with a significant part of life sciences production sites based here and about half the world’s aircraft orders projected to come from Asia, DHL’s logistics division hopes to expand in these and all other sectors it operates in the region.

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Indian logistics market to touch euro 90b by 2015

Posted by | Apr 17, 2007 | |

At a time when the logistics industry in India is at a major inflexion point and international majors like United Parcel Services (UPS) and FedEx have started making their presence felt, DHL could not have waited any longer. DHL Exel Supply Chain & Global Forwarding CEO John Allan came calling last week. Attracted, no doubt, by the booming logistics market in India.

Riding on the increased investments in infrastructure, proposed phase out of Central Sales Tax (CST) and boom in the manufacturing sector, the organised Indian logistics industry is growing larger by the day. “We estimate the Indian logistics market to be around euro 33 billion. By 2015, we expect it to reach almost euro 90 billion at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 11%, which is higher than the rate of growth of the Indian economy,” says Mr Allan.

He adds that in the next decade, there will be a substantial growth in the manufacturing segment, which will trickle down as opportunity for logistics companies. “There are two reasons why we see a major opportunity here. Firstly, India serves as a good base for manufacturing for exports like automobile components and pharmaceuticals so most of them are moving to India. Secondly, the size of the domestic market is itself getting larger.”

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DHL goes green with fashion deliveries

Posted by | Apr 16, 2007 | |

Logistics provider DHL has commissioned the world’s largest high performance electric vehicle to handle deliveries to fashion retailers in the UK.

The first zero carbon emission truck to be used by the express distribution giant, and built almost entirely of recyclable materials, it will be used by DHL UK’s Department Stores and Fashion division.

The truck, which will be officially unveiled this month, has a gross vehicle weight (GVW) of 9 tonnes.

With fast acceleration, a top speed of 50mph and the ability to cover over 100 miles on a single battery charge, it is said to be ideally suited to operating the short-distance routes between DHL’s consolidation centre operations and retail outlets.

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Connxion wins DHL electronic contract in Australia

Posted by | Apr 16, 2007 | |

Outsourced document delivery specialist ConnXion Ltd will migrate DHL Exel Supply Chain’s entire customer base to electronic delivery.

Under the contract, air and ocean freight and contract logistics provider DHL will deploy ConnXion’s technology to give its customers the option to seamlessly migrate from paper to digital delivery of documents including statements and invoices, resulting in faster and easier processing for customers.

ConnXion CEO David Colvin said the deal demonstrated the trend emerging around automating supply chain management via electronic document delivery.

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Researchers see India's express industry growing by 20% a year

Posted by | Apr 16, 2007 | |

India’s express and courier industry, now valued at Rs71bn (USD1.63bn), is forecast to reveal a compound annual growth rate of 20% over the next five years and more than double its size by 2012.

According to a study by rating agency Credit Analysis’ research the main growth driver for the express industry will be the opening up of the banking, insurance, retail, aviation and telecommunications sectors.

Several executives recently interviewed for UPS indicated that a key segment of Asia’s business leaders were more excited about the growth of India than they were of China’s.

While there was optimism over the growth of the Chinese consumer market, small and medium sized enterprise leaders across Asia expressed a desire to capitalise on India’s rapid growth by leveraging its continued rise as a manufacturing base.

Leaders of such enterprises also expressed a desire to become an outsourcing destination for India and an exporter of raw materials to India for manufacturing.

The UPS Asia Business Monitor, a survey designed to gauge the competitiveness of small and medium sized enterprises in Asia, also found that, of 1,200 decision-makers interviewed across 12 different markets in the region 85% said India had the potential to be a regional economic leader and 81% said the country’s economy was certain to grow this year.

The express industry in India, which ranks among the fastest growing sectors in the Indian economy, has been growing at an annual rate of 33% over the past decade.

At its present estimated size, the industry is almost as large as the shipping and paper industries in the country. However, it is highly fragmented, with more than 2,500 express operators, although about 20 of them make up more than 50% of the industry’s revenues.

According to another study the organised portion of the industry comprises 65% of the total market.

The semi-organised and unorganised segments, which consist largely of regional and intra-city service providers and the government-run EMS Speedpost, between them account for the rest.

Among domestic operators, Blue Dart, DTDC, First Flight and Overnite Express are leading express service companies while FedEx, UPS, DHL and TNT are the top international operators.

‘Document parcels that weigh less than 300 gm account for about 70% of the total volume of document parcels and intra-city deliveries account for nearly 37% of their turnover,’ the CARE report says.

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