DHL to move headquarters to South Florida
The express-mail company DHL will consolidate its two home offices in Seattle and Florida and move its headquarters to South Florida during the next 15 months.
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Astar COO: no DHL influence here
An Astar Air Cargo executive told a Department of Transportation hearing that DHL Worldwide Express has no influence over its operations. Gary Hammes, who took over as chief operating officer of Astar Air Cargo, formerly DHL Airways, just six weeks ago, testified that while DHL pays to maintain Astar’s fleet and contributes 90% of revenues, it does not interfere in day-to-day operations.
The hearing in Washington came as part of the ongoing investigation into whether Astar’s ownership skirts U.S. law. FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service have charged that DHL Worldwide of Brussels and parent Deutsche Post Word Net, the German postal and logistics giant, illegally control American-owned Astar.
Read MoreDHL is Oracle’s new shipping partner
The world’s largest software supplier Oracle has chosen DHL, the market leader in the international express business, to be its partner for parcel and document shipping. The arrangement between the two leading companies initially covers the dispatch of items within the USA. In the long term there are plans for the partnership to be extended to Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Read MoreDHL to open €500m center in Prague
The courier company DHL plans to invest €500m (US$588 million)in a new regional information technology operations center in Prague, the company announced.
Plans call for the Prague center to be fully running in 2005 and to employ up to 1,000 people by 2006, making it a significant foreign investments into the Czech capital.
The center will serve as the key IT facility for DHL in Europe. The company has similar operations centers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
Read MoreUPS, FedEx urge US to drop Astar deadline
FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service on Monday asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to lift the Dec. 1 deadline for an administrative law judge’s recommendations on the ownership of Astar Air Cargo, formerly DHL Airways. The big U.S. express carriers complained that two U.S.-based subsidiaries of archrival Deutsche Post World Net have failed to comply with the judge’s order to produce documents related to the investigation into whether Astar is illegally controlled by Deutsche Post.
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