Tag: DHL

DHL reaches deal with US MobileMail

Posted by | Mar 3, 2005 | |

DHL announced March 1 an arrangement with MobileMail, a company that forwards mail to Americans spending a significant amount of time away from home.
MobileMail provides forwarding for customers who frequently travel and need their mail to follow them wherever they go. Truck drivers, actors, musicians and traveling nurses are typical customers. Recipients of MobileMail have their mail addressed to a private P.O. box at the MobileMail facility in Atlanta. When they are ready to receive mail, the MobileMail customer selects the time, date and location for delivery by calling in with a secure passcode. Under the arrangement, MobileMail customers can get their mail at any location served by DHL using its Next Day 10:30 a.m. service in the United States.

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DHL forecasts 100 per cent jump in regional express business in five years

Posted by | Feb 28, 2005 | |

Drawing on an unprecedented region-wide analysis (six markets: UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, KSA, Bahrain and Lebanon), the Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) subsidiary forecast that the current Euros 218 million (AED 1.1 billion, USD291 million) Middle East express market will grow to Euros 400 million (AED 2 billion, USD533 million) by 2010. DHL currently has nearly 50 per cent of the express market and with its own growth rates exceeding 20 per cent a year is confident of an increasingly impressive slice of the cake. The express sector, predominantly the fast-moving documents and parcels end of the wider logistics and freight industry, is one of DHL’s core markets. In an exclusive media preview of the figures in Dubai today Phil Couchman, DHL’s Regional Director for the Middle East, said: ‘We are extremely pleased with the results of the research. DHL, the region’s dominant logistics and express operator, today released figures that reveal its Middle East express business could double in the next five years on the back of runaway growth that far outstrips world averages.

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DHL, StanChart sign multimillion contract

Posted by | Feb 25, 2005 | |

Express and logistics company DHL was awarded a two-year contract by Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) to manage the bank’s international document and parcel express shipments globally.

The multimillion contract underpins StanChart’s endorsement of DHL as the exclusive provider for the bank’s global express services covering documents and parcels from the bank’s worldwide offices to destinations around the world.

StanChart’s requirements will be overseen by DHL’s global customer solutions (GCS) division, which was established in January 2004 to provide a single point of contact across all markets for DHL’s top global customers. DHL has a long logistical experience in providing services to various multinational customers in the financial sector.

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DHL announces development of major new USD107 million East Coast distribution facility

Posted by | Feb 17, 2005 | |

DHL today announced plans to locate a new, state-of-the-art East Coast Distribution Facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania. DHL expects to invest USD107 million in the development of the new facility, which will serve as a key distribution center for DHL’s network in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Planned as the principal DHL distribution center on the East Coast of the United States, the new Allentown facility will serve all major metropolitan areas in the region, including Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, D.C. The facility will also provide additional capacity to serve the needs of DHL’s growing customer base in the U.S. and enhance service levels for DHL customers across the country and around the world.

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Swedish Scribona extends partnership with German Schenker, DHL

Posted by | Feb 16, 2005 | |

Swedish information management products provider Scribona AB has extended its partnership with German logistics provider Schenker AG and DHL, the express logistics subsidiary of German postal group Deutsche Post AG, it was reported on February 16, 2005. Through the collaboration, the logistics systems will be integrated and Scribona’s physical inventory management and transports will be taken over by DHL and Schenker. Scribona’s logistics personnel in Sweden will be offered employment at DHL by the summer of 2005. Within 18 months, all physical inventory management will be relocated to one of DHL’s logistics centres at the same time that the logistics systems are integrated. The motive behind the collaboration is to create a more flexible supply chain function, Magnus Johansson, head of Scribona’s Supply Chain Management unit, said.

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