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Look: no pilot – DHL to trial robot Parcelcopter

DHL Parcel is to launch a drone service to deliver medicines and other urgent items to the North Sea island of Juist. The 'Parcelcopter' will operate on an experimental first time in Europe that an unmanned aircraft will be operated outside of the pilot's field of vision in a real-life mission. It is the latest stage in the parcelcopter research project it launched in December 2013. DHL and its two research ... [+]

DHL offers new rail options from China

DHL Global Forwarding has improved its China/Europe rail service with a new scheduled block train with an average transit time of 14 days from Suzhou to Warsaw using the trans-Siberian North Corridor. CEO of DHL Global Forwarding, Freight Roger Crook described Suzhou as a strategic departure point for Jiangsu. Customers ... [+]

DHL helps health workers get on their bikes

DHL has shipped 880 bicycles to to Madagascar for rural community health workers on behalf of Transaid. The international development charity is pioneering a number of projects in the country to help improve people’s access to health facilities. The bicycles, sourced with the help of Transaid’s partner charity Re-Cycle (Bikes ... [+]

Fifth birthday for disaster aid scheme

Deutsche Post DHL and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are celebrating the fifth anniversary of their Get Airports Ready for Disaster (GARD) programme. The joint scheme to provide training and other meaures has now worked with 25 airports to help them cope with the logistical challenge of a humanitarian ... [+]

Feel the chill with DHL

DHL Global Forwarding has launched a new service for life sciences products needing extremely low temperatures. It allows shipments to be reliably maintained at  minus150º Celsius for at least 10 days. The service is maintained by LifeConEx, DHL’s temperature management specialist in collaboration with global frozen shipping services provider, Cryoport. ... [+]

DHL invests for Middle East expansion

DHL Express is investing US$177 million in new facilities in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE over the next two years with new facilities and gateways in Saudi Arabia, a new country office in Cairo, and its biggest ground operations facility in the region in Dubai. Nour Suliman, CEO, Middle East and ... [+]

Updated: DHL expands express road system

DHL Freight has expanded its Eurapid service with 11 new terminals joining the network at the beginning of May. The are new stations at Coalville in the UK (in addition to the existing UK station in London), Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Switzerland and two new ... [+]

A tall order for DHL

DHL Global Forwarding moved Jengo the giraffe from Liege, Belgium, to his new home at the Ramat Gan Safari in Tel Aviv, Israel on 22 May. He will be joining a new herd for a breeding program. [+]

DHL expands Thermonet

DHL Global Forwarding is to add 15 more certified life sciences stations to its Thermonet network in the second quarter of 2014, primarily in the Americas and Europe, Middle East and Africa. They include Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Sweden and South Africa. [+]

Full-size Scalextric, courtesy of DHL

DHL, official logistics partner and founding partner of the FIA Formula E Championship, delivered the very first fully-electric Spark Renault SRT-01E race cars from Paris to the new Formula E headquarters and team facilities at Donington Park Racing Circuit in the UK. CEO of DHL Express, Ken Allen said: “In ... [+]

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