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Argentina DHL Express opens three offices in Buenos Aires

Posted by | Jan 30, 2007 | |

DHL Express has opened three new service centres in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

Two of the service centres are in the shopping centres Buenos Aires Design and Alto Palermo, and there is also one unit in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Parque Patricios. The cost of the new units was not disclosed.

DHL Express announced that the opening of the centres is part of its strategy for Argentina, which also includes the expansion of its services to new areas within the country. DHL Express plans to invest $11 mln (8.5 mln euro) between 2006 and 2011 in improving its door-to-door service in Argentina and covering 150 Argentine cities.

DHL Express also plans to expand its office in the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires.

Currently DHL Express has a chain of 18 points in Argentina. There are 12 in Buenos Aires and six in the interior of the country, namely in the larger cities and industrial centres Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza, Mar del Plata, Neuquen and Salta.

DHL operates in Argentina since 1947. DHL considers that the Argentine economy is performing very well and has recovered after the economic crisis in 2002, which is the main reason DHL wants to boost its investments in the country

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Mex opens new branches in Spain

Posted by | Jan 29, 2007 | |

Spanish courier Mex has opened 14 new branches in the last two months as part of a major expansion drive across Spain, taking its total number of outlets to over 200.

The carrier, fifth in the Spanish express market behind DHL, Seur, MRW and TNT, according to the journal “Logística, Paquetería y Almacenaje”, opened five new agencies in Barcelona, four in Valencia and one each in Madrid, Seville, Zamora, Vizcaya and Tarragona. It now has 32 and 28 outlets, respectively, in the Barcelona and Madrid regions.

Mex totalled revenues of EUR 171 million in 2005, 16% up on the previous year and said it increased its number of new clients by 20%. It founded in 1982 as Mundiexpress, changing its name in 1996 to Grupo Mex as it launched franchises throughout the country.

The carrier has 1,650 employees, over 1,000 vehicles and small aircraft, and in December signed up for international deliveries with Sky Net, which in Spain ships out of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.

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DHL launches domestic airfreight service in China

Posted by | Jan 26, 2007 | |

DHL announced the launch of the DHL Domestic Airfreight service in China. To date, DHL Global Forwarding, one of DHL’s business units providing air and ocean freight services, is the first international forwarder to obtain the CATA (China Air Transport Association) domestic airfreight license, allowing them to operate within 17 Chinese cities. This is certainly a key milestone for both the company and the domestic logistics market, previously served only by Chinese state-owned and local companies. DHL Global Forwarding Domestic Airfreight is part of DHL Global Forwarding’s earlier announcement on the USD20 million investment plan to further enhance the company’s network infrastructure, human resources development, as well as products and services to meet anticipated business growth in China. With this launch and its First in China strategy, DHL is the only international logistics company offering both Domestic Express and Domestic Airfreight services.

The Chinese logistics market consists of various segments: international airfreight, and ocean freight, domestic airfreight, international and domestic roads, international and domestic rail and inland waterway and warehousing. According to the latest Boeing’s World Air Cargo Forecast, the domestic airfreight market has grown at over 20% every year since 1990, and is expected to double its current size and reach a ca. EUR 2.6 billion in 2010. China’s domestic air cargo market has become the second largest in the world with an annual growth rate forecast of 10.8% over the next 2 decades.

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DHL announce shipping system enhancements

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

DHL today announced enhancements to its DHL EasyShip family of PC-based shipping solutions. The new upgrades provide customers with a number of value-added features and enhancements, including access to more DHL services, faster installation and setup, and improved rate visibility.
The new upgrades include:

– Improved rate visibility for shipment processing
– Simplified import/export to more easily upload large data files for mass shipping distributions
– Enhancements to increase speed and ease of EasyShip Professional installation
– Option to request DHL signature delivery service
– Addition of expedited DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service

DHL offers several shipping software platforms, including EasyShip Connect, a software solution for smaller-volume shipping customers to use on their own PC; EasyShip Professional, a stand-alone shipping application for a customers’ PC, designed for medium-volume shippers who prefer to process shipments without a constant internet connection; EasyShip Professional Plus, a fully functional PC shipping station provided by DHL for low- to medium-volume customers; and EasyShip Enterprise, a high-performance, server-based shipping system that supports multiple shipping stations.

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DHL USA announce shipping system enhancements

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

DHL announced enhancements to its DHL EasyShip family of PC-based shipping solutions. The new upgrades provide customers with a number of value-added features and enhancements, including access to more DHL services, faster installation and setup, and improved rate visibility.

“These enhancements were developed in close collaboration with our shipping customers,” said Keith Lovetro, EVP of Marketing for DHL. “Keeping a close pulse on our customers’ needs help us to continually enhance our systems to fit their specific requirements and grow with the pace of a changing business environment. Our upgrades to DHL EasyShip will improve the DHL customer experience by offering more options and making automated shipping faster and easier,” added Lovetro.

The new upgrades include:
– Improved rate visibility for shipment processing
– Simplified import/export to more easily upload large data files for mass shipping distributions
– Enhancements to increase speed and ease of EasyShip Professional installation
– Option to request DHL signature delivery service
– Addition of expedited DHL@home business-to-residential delivery service.

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