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New chief for DHL online platform

Thomas Grunau has taken over as chief executive of DHL’s Saloodo! digital freight platform, succeeding Amadou Diallo, who takes on a new role as chief executive of DHL Global Forwarding Middle East, Africa. Grunau held various management positions at Kühne + Nagel Group, most recently as senior vice president project office digitalisation. [+]

New DHL index takes the temperature of world trade

DHL has launched an early indicator for the current state and future development of global trade, in partnership with accounting firm Accenture. The DHL Global Trade Barometer is based on import and export data for a number of intermediate and early-cycle commodities that serve as the basis for further industrial production ... [+]

Round the globe with DHL

Following the announcement in June last year that DHL was sponsoring Susie Goodall in the Golden Globe Race in mid-2019, the round-the-world sailor introduced her newly refurbished craft at the London Boat Show on 10 January. DHL has provided logistics support throughout the refurbishment process, bringing items such as solar panels ... [+]

Online airfreight quotes from DHL

DHL Global Forwarding arm is offering an international airfreight  online quotation and booking service via its DHL Interactive customer portal. The service is available in over 40 countries — including the UK and other main European Union member states, US, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. It allows shippers ... [+]

DHL to open Hanover hub

DHL is making “an eight-figure investment” in a freight hub at Hanover Airport Business Park to cater for the less-than-truckload and full load truck markets. The new site, building of which is expected to start in early 2018, will have over 80 loading bays and a capacity of 600,000 tonnes ... [+]

DHL opens Hungarian hub

DHL Express has opened a warehouse and office complex at Budapest Airport as part of a € EUR160 million development programme at the Hungarian gateway. It is the largest air cargo development at Budapest Airport to date, with a total land area development of just over 60,000 square meters. The next ... [+]

DHL adds Ireland to e-commerce network

DHL has added Ireland and Romania to its European parcel network for cross-border e-commerce. It has signed a partnership with Ireland’s state-owned postal service An Post and the private Romanian parcel service Urgent Cargus. In November, DHL will also include Croatia and Bulgaria in its parcel network following deals with ... [+]

DHL online truck marketplace launches in UK

DHL’s digital freight platform, Saloodo!, is now available in the UK, following its launch in Germany, offering domestic and international transport services. DHL has also added extra services to the platform, including quotes and invoicing in national currencies and local taxation. As well as credit card, PayPal and SEPA, payment against ... [+]

DHL to partner in truck platoon trials

The Transport Research Laboratory has been awarded a government contract to test truck platooning from next year, in partnership with DHL, Daf a technology firm Ricardo. The trials will use up to three lorries with only the lead vehicle being driven by a human driver, although drivers will still control ... [+]

Ground-breaking in the Ruhr

DHL Parcel held a ground-breaking ceremony on 21 August for its new parcels centre at Bochum in the heart of the Ruhr region. It will be able to process up to 50,000 shipments per hour when it opens in autumn 2019. [+]

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