Tag: DHL

Courier services look to China to expand coverage

Posted by | Aug 3, 2004 | |

Companies in the U.S. are facing mature markets at home and are increasingly looking to the Chinese market to grow and remain competitive globally. According to FedEX, U.S. exports to China have grown by 75 percent over the past three years making the United States second only to Japan as China’s top trading partner. And European exports to China are also growing steadily.

DHL was the first international air express company to enter China in 1980, followed by FedEX in 1984, and UPS in 2000.

DHL’s partner Sinotrans is a licensed customs broker, covering 300 cities through 11 major gateways with about 37 percent of China’s market. In 2003, they invested USD200 million in China for a five-year program.

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DHL sees rise in Asia-Pacific market share

Posted by | Aug 2, 2004 | |

DHL has said it expected its expand its 40 percent share of the Asia-Pacific express courier market by one-to-two percentage points in the next few years, fuelled by growth in China. DHL, a unit of Deutsche Post AG, earned about 2.5 billion euros in revenue from its express and logistics businesses in Asia last year, about 11 percent of DHL’s total global turnover.

“We are getting 20 to 25 percent growth in Japan. But China is twice as fast as that,” DHL Express chief executive John Mullen told a news conference.
Mullen said revenue at DHL’s China express have grown 35 to 45 percent annually over the last five years.

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DHL eyeing Manila airport ecozone

Posted by | Aug 2, 2004 | |

DHL wants the Philippines government to declare part of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as a special economic zone where businesses will be entitled to various incentives. DHL Worldwide Express (Philippines), Inc. aims to convert a property close to the airport into an economic zone, but “it is not big enough to qualify” under Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) rules.

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DHL eyeing airport ecozone in Philippines

Posted by | Aug 2, 2004 | |

Global logistics company DHL wants the government to declare part of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as a special economic zone where businesses will be entitled to various incentives, a reliable source said over the weekend.

DHL Worldwide Express (Philippines), Inc. aims to convert a property close to the airport into an ecozone but “it is not big enough to qualify” under Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) rules, the source said.

Because of this, authorities are considering various options, first of which is to combine an airport lot owned by the Manila International Airport Administration or MIAA and the DHL property.

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DHL sees Asian express logistics market share grow 1-2percent

Posted by | Aug 2, 2004 | |

DHL, which Deutsche Post World Net AG wholly owns, said it expects its share in Asia Pacific’s express logistics market to grow at a steady rate of 1-2 pct in the next few years, mainly due to its China operations.

‘At the moment, we believe we are taking 1-2 pct market share a year (from our competitors) and we expect that to continue for the next few years,’ said DHL Express Chief Executive Officer for Asia Pacific John Mullen.

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