DHL International’s Dublin Airport gateway is to be extended, to permit wider use of automated processes, thus enabling the facility to handle the greater throughput DHL is forecasting.
Two months ago, the company opened a courier base on the north side of Dublin and intends expanding its depot on the city’s Western Industrial Estate. Its base in the city centre handles mainly documents and small packages.
presence in Sweden have continued to see growth – UPS reports doubledigit increases in 2001 – the express market as a whole has seen a significant slowdown since the first quarter.
DHL has around 60% of the Swedish express market, and saw growth tumble from 15% in Q1 to zero in July and August and a 2% drop in September.
Express mail market, the capacity of whichin Russia is about $100 million a year ismostly controlled by internationalcompanies: 51% belongs to DHL, 19% – toTNT, 10% – to UPS, 7% – to FedEx and 13% -to EMS “Garantpost”.
Read MoreDHL Worldwide Express, the leading air express company of the country has launched three sales campaigns from November 1, 2001. The campaign involves DHL’s two premium services: Fashion 1st and Import Express; and cash shipments sent through DHL. Throughout the campaign period the users of these services would find exciting surprises awaiting them. The campaigns are designed to raise customer awareness of the various latest service offerings of DHL.
Fashion 1st is a unique service of DHL Worldwide Express tailor made for garments sector. The service offers customized packaging solutions for the garments exporters and importers. Some salient features of the service include garment-on-hanger facility for samples requiring photography; a documentation pouch for customs related papers and exclusively designed boxes that can withstand up to 300 kgf of pressure. DHL’s bonded facility and clearance-on-air technology ensures that each fashion shipment reaches its destination safe and secure.
Read MoreDHL Worldwide Express is investing nearly $300
million to enhance its ground infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region. The
investment is aimed at major markets in Greater China, Japan and Singapore,
said a statement received here.” The article states: “DHL will invest $82
million in an Asian hub in Hong Kong, $35 million in a Southeast Asia
gateway at Singapore’s Changi Airport, and $125 million in Japan, DHL Asia
Pacific chief operating officer Marc Duali said in the statement.
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