DHL delivers for James Ketchell’s gyrocopter flight
DHL has supported British adventurer James Ketchell in his journey around the world in an open-cockpit gyrocopter, which ended on Sunday 22 September. Throughout his 37,000-kilometre journey, Ketchell visited schools to inspire children to follow their dreams, while raising money for charities Over The Wall and Kindled Spirit. His journey started in England, before heading […]
DHL Express and EHang tackle the last mile with drones
DHL Express has entered a strategic partnership with autonomous aerial vehicle company EHang to launch drone deliveries to tackle last mile challenges in China. The launch ceremony was held on 16 May at the EHang Command and Control Center in Guangzhou with senior executives from both companies in attendance. The customised route has been created […]
Deutsche Post DHL secures long-term EBIT growth
Revenue at Deutsche Post DHL Group grew by 1.8% to €61.6 billion in 2018 though EBIT was affected by restructuring the Post – eCommerce – Parcel (PeP) division. The growth in revenue was driven by the ongoing boom in e-commerce as well as growth in international trade flows. By division, PeP revenue increased by 1.7% […]
DHL Express invests €93m in Madrid Airport hub
DHL Express has invested €93 million in a hub at Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport, quadrupling its capacity in Madrid. The 14,000m2 building, which includes offices, will facilitate the sorting of 24,500 packages per hour including packages and envelopes and create 200 additional jobs. The 32,000m2 hub has a total of 176 loading docks enabling 160 […]
DHL launches Brazil-USA Medical Express Service
DHL Medical Express Service has been launched between Brazil and the USA for customers in the pharmaceutical and clinical research sectors. The service was piloted in Brazil in November 2018 to address customer demands for faster and more predictable lead times, given the regulatory complexities that can delay exports. The medical service lets DHL manage […]
DHL Express invests in hub at Copenhagen Airport
DHL Express will make its largest ever investment in Denmark by spending one billion krone on a new hub at Copenhagen Airport. The facility will feature state-of-the-art automated systems, and be able to handle 37,000 packages per hour, 24 hours a day in a 26,172m2 building, which will be ready in 2023. Packages to and […]
Leipzig/Halle flies past one million tonnes of freight
Freight volumes have shot past the one million tonne barrier at Leipzig/Halle Airport, growing at four times the average rate for Germany. Between January and October, Leipzig/Halle handled 1,012,448 tonnes of freight, up 9.1 per cent on 2017. October was also a strong month, with 6.3 per cent year-on-year growth to 105,697 tonnes. The growth […]
DHL Express announces 2019 UK price adjustments
DHL Express has revealed its annual price increase, representing an average of 4.9 per cent, effective 1 January, 2019. “DHL Express has been investing significantly in its international network to meet the highest expectations and to offer an even better service to customers globally,” said DHL Express UK CEO Ian Wilson. “Particularly in the last […]
TRAFFIC helps DHL staff in Vietnam prevent wildlife trafficking
DHL eCommerce and DHL Express staff in Vietnam have had a workshop with TRAFFIC to learn how they can help prevent the trafficking of wildlife. The workshop, which TRAFFIC delivered through the USAID-funded Wildlife Trafficking Response, Assessment and Priority Setting (Wildlife TRAPS) Project, covered the local and global implications of wildlife trafficking crimes, the role […]
FIA 2018: DHL Express orders 14 Boeing 777 Freighters
Boeing has kicked off the Farnborough Airshow by signing a deal to supply DHL Express with 14 Boeing 777 Freighters, with the option for an additional seven. The first aircraft is scheduled for delivery in 2019, and DHL says that while the aircraft will not increase capacity, they will significantly reduce costs, increase efficiency and […]
HKIA building on future cargo growth
Hong Kong, the world’s busiest cargo airport, boosted by surging e-commerce numbers is building up its infrastructure for the trade. “In the first quarter of 2018, HKIA handled 1.15 million tonnes of cargo, which is 4.2 per cent more than that in 2017,” a spokesperson for the Airport Authority of Hong Kong told Air Cargo […]
Smiths Detection to supply DHL Hong Kong with high speed scanners
Smiths Detection has won a contract to supply DHL Express Hong Kong with four HI-SCAN 10080 EDX-2is to improve throughput capacity and increase security levels. The high speed system automatically screens cargo and baggage for explosives and follows the implementation of the system in DHL Singapore and Japan. The system uses the latest innovations in […]
DPDHL continues its journey to reach strategic and financial goals
Deutsche Post DHL Group took another major step on its journey to achieve its strategic and financial goals with revenue and profits growing in 2017. Revenue increased by 5.4 per cent to €60.4 billion and consolidated net profit was up 2.8 per cent to €2.7 billion, with revenue increasing in all divisions. Post – e-commerce […]
Atlas Air acquires 777Fs to lease to DHL Express on ACMI basis
Atlas Air Worldwide has acquired two Boeing 777 Freighters to be operated for DHL Express by Southern Air on an ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) basis. The aircraft were acquired from LATAM Airlines with the first starting service this month and the second expected to begin service at the end of the second quarter […]
Cargo volumes at Brussels Airport soar past 500,000 tonnes
Cargo volumes at Brussels Airport have soared by 8.3 per cent in 2017 to 535,634 tonnes, the highest volume in the past 10 years. The airport serving Belgium’s capital saw particularly strong growth in belly cargo, rising 13.8 per cent, helped by Hainan Airlines launching Boeing 787 flights to Shanghai and Emirates introducing a second […]
DHL Express and Air Hong Kong extend agreement until 2033
DHL Express and Air Hong Kong have signed a 15-year block space agreement, enabling the carrier’s overnight air services to continue supporting the DHL Express network until 2033. As part of the agreement, DHL will sell its 40 per cent stake in Air Hong Kong (AHK) to majority-owner Cathay Pacific, and purchase eight of AHK’s […]
DHL Express takes delivery of the first EFW A330-300P2F
DHL Express has become the first operator to take delivery of the A330-300 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) converted aircraft from Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW). The aircraft programme, launched in 2012, is a collaboration between ST Aerospace, Airbus and their joint venture, EFW. The A330P2F, available as a -200 or larger -300, is designed for international express B2B and […]
DHL Express to expand its HK hub with €335m investment
DHL Express is to invest €335 million in its Central Asia Hub (CAH) – in partnership with the Airport Authority Hong Kong. The expansion brings DHL’s commitment to the hub to over €520 million, making it the largest infrastructural investment by DHL Express in Asia Pacific to date. The express freight firm says the development […]
Deutsche Post DHL Group profits continue to rise in Q3
Deutsche Post DHL Group net profits have grown 3.7 per cent in the third quarter with the DHL Express division posting the strongest results. Consolidated net profits were €641 million ($743 million) in the third quarter and revenue grew by 5.6 per cent to €14.6 billion. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for the group […]
Leipzig/Halle continues to grow for the 13th consecutive year
Leipzig/Halle Airport has grown for the 13th consecutive year with volumes increasing by 7.7 per cent in the first nine months of 2017. Germany’s second largest cargo airport has handled 828,163 tonnes between January and September, meaning growth at Europe’s fifth busiest freight airport is continuing for the 13th year in succession. The airport passed […]
EFW launches first Airbus P2F conversion flight tests
EFW (Elbe Flugzeugwerke) has successfully launched the first A330-300P2F test flights at Dresden Airport after months of preparation. Facing unfavorable weather conditions during storm Xavier the first flight only took a few minutes. The second lasted for over six hours, followed by several other flight tests to achieve the supplemental type certificate (STC) in 2017. The […]
The Western Mediterranean’s express hub remains stable
Cargo volumes have remained stable at Marseille Provence Airport, cargo manager Jean-Marc Boutigny tells Air Cargo Week staff writer, James Muir. The airport handled 36,896 tonnes of flown airfreight between January and the end of August, an improvement of 0.6 per cent on 2016. This follows growth of 7.1 per cent in 2016, when it […]
DHL Express opens new facilities at Budapest Airport
DHL Express has opened new facilities in the first phase of Budapest Airport’s 50 billion Forint ($191 million) BUD:2020 Development Programme. The express company is the latest to launch at the warehouse and office complexes, which have automated sorting systems, and represent the largest air cargo development at Budapest Airport to date, with a total […]
New $6.2m Dallas Metroplex facility opened by DHL
DHL has opened a new $6.2 million 50,000 square foot facility in the East Dallas area – providing international shipments ranging from envelopes and small parcels to palletised and containerized freight. The express firm says the company’s second in Carrollton, Dallas, reflects the growth in shipments from businesses in the vicinity that trade internationally as […]
E-commerce and express help DHL revenue grow 4.4% in Q2
Deutsche Post DHL Group revenue grew 4.4 per cent in the second quarter with double digit profit growth, helped by strong growth particularly for e-commerce and the express business. Second quarter revenue hit €14.8 billion ($17.4 billion) while net profit was up 11.3 per cent to €602 million. The Express sector registered the highest growth […]
EFW targets more P2F conversion programme orders
The conversion market is buoyant and Elbe Flugzeugwerke’s (EFW) Airbus A330-300 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion programme is hitting the right notes. The A330P2F programme was launched in 2012 as collaboration between ST Aerospace, Airbus and EFW. It includes the A330-200P2F, which Egyptair Cargo was the first to sign up for in December 2014, and the A330-300P2F, […]
Cathay Pacific takes full control of Air Hong Kong
Air Hong Kong (AHK) is to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific Airways, it was announced in a filing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The non-binding memorandum of understanding will involve Cathay Pacific Group and DHL Group entering into the Share Transaction for the former to purchase the minority interest, AHK and […]
Boeing and Airbus cash in at the Paris Air Show
Boeing just about won the order battle with Airbus at this week’s Paris Air Show as the two aircraft manufacturers picked up aircraft orders valued at $74.8 billion and $39.7 billion, respectively. At the show, Boeing launched the B737 MAX 10, the newest member of the 737 MAX family, with more than 361 orders and commitments from […]
DHL Express orders more A330-300P2Fs from EFW
DHL Express has ordered four more Airbus A330-300 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions from Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), with the option for 10 more. The contract was signed at the 52nd International Paris Air Show witnessed by Singapore’s Second Minister for Defense, Ong Ye Kung and Chief of the Saxon State Chancellery and State Minister for Federal and […]
DHL Global Forwarding to keep the Norwegian seafood moving
DHL Global Forwarding is to accelerate the supply chain for the North Norwegian seafood industry by shipping live crabs and seafood from the Lakselv Airport Banak in Northern Norway to Asia and Northern America. On dedicated weekly flights, DHL will transport fresh seafood to the DHL terminal in Oslo, from where the freight is sent to South […]
