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Read MoreDHL Romania last year witnessed a 60% growth in the sector of domestic delivery services, with this sector expected to continue as one of the company’s main growth drivers in the future, says Gian Sharp country manager with DHL.
He explained that while document delivery will not experience a rise, as documents can now be sent by e-mail, express parcel shipment services would certainly witness growth.
Though internal courier services account for only around 10 percent of the company’s turnover the growth remains significant.
In 2005, DHL derived around 18 million euros from courier services alone, with the company’s representatives putting last year’s growth rate at more than 20%, which means the company’s 2006 turnover for this sector exceeded 20 million euros.
Consecutively the company posted a 21.7% increase on the sector of express imports, which was bolstered by rising online sales with Romanians now able to buy products from abroad by using the Internet. As regards the volume of express import services, the company also expects significant increases this year, but the biggest increase will be witnessed on the segment of day definite services.
According to the company’s representatives DHL is a global as well as domestic leader in the segment of express delivery services. DHL expects its domestic turnover to increase by 35-40% this year, having already witnessed growth of over 30% in the first three months of 2007 against the same period last year.
Read MoreExel Direct, Exel’s e-fulfilment and home delivery service, will implement a new system for IKEA’s home deliveries to provide the retailer and its customers with a greater degree of delivery accuracy.
IKEA customers will benefit from this new relationship. Exel will deliver from store to door providing customers the choice at time of ordering, the most convenient time slots for delivery on a given day and which room deliveries should be left.
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