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Deutsche Post DHL has deployed its first Disaster Response Team (DRT) to support relief efforts in Vanuatu, devastate by Cyclone Pam on 14 March. The team is currently based at Bauerfield International Airport in Port Vila, Vanuatu’s capital, to provide airport logistics support to manage incoming international aid and expedite the distribution to those in need. A second DRT team will be deployed on 27 March.
The DRT network consists of ...
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DHL is investing €114 million in its hub at Brussels Airport, originally opened in 1985. The scheme will triple capacity from 12,000 to 39,500 shipments per hour with modern sorting technology and is expected to create 200 new jobs by 2020. The original Brussels facility was set up in 1985 ...
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DHL Express has launched a scheduled helicopter link between Heathrow and London's two main financial centres. The daily flight, operated by a Bell 206 Jet Ranger with space for up to 300 kilos, flies from DHL’s Heathrow Hub to Canary Wharf and the City of London, saving up to an ...
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DHL’s Customs Brokerage teams have been helping international traders get ready for the US Single Window International Trade Data System (ITDS) announced last February. Businesses will file documentation with one government agency instead of up to 47 separate ones, says DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist within ...
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Following its experiments with pilotless flying drones, DHL has published a new report on their land-based counterparts, Self-Driving Vehicles in Logistics.
DHL considers that it is in a prime position to innovate in this area. Self-driving forklift trucks and the like are nothing new in warehouses, but vehicles of the future ...
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DHL Freight has extended its day-definite road freight service to nine more terminals across Europe, including Warrington. There are also new stations in France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Spain and Slovakia and two in Portugal (Lisbon, Porto). The service for less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments up to 2.5 tons is now available at ...
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DHL officially completed the first phase of its European Hub in Leipzig on 20 November and the first sorting operations are underway at the hub’s new warehouse facility. The overall expansion will increase the processing capacity of the hub by 50%, to more than 150,000 shipments per hour. The expansion ...
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DHL Supply Chain (DSC) will commit a further €113 million in China on the back of the €105 million that was committed in 2013, bringing the total committed to EUR 218 million. The funds will support the expansion of its network across China and in particular, six additional logistics facilities ...
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Trade unionists are holding a three day meeting in Mumbai to study the worsening industrial relations at DHL India on 15-November. DHL workers from Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, along with the international delegates, will also hold a protest meeting to demand an end to victimisation and the right to ...
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DHL Global Forwarding has extended its multimodal rail service from China toEurope to include Japan. A combination of trucking, sea and rail offers customers inJapan access to DGF China's rail freight solution which offers delivery times of between 10 and 21 days, around half the time of ocean freight and ...
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