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DHL eCommerce has opened a site in Newcastle. The 55,000sq ft facility will handle up to 15,000 parcels a day and is the latest development under DHL’s £482m investment in its UK infrastructure. It follows the opening of DHL’s Coventry Hub in March.
It has been designed to align with DHL’s Go Green strategy which has been set to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Features include heating and lighting sensors to ...
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DHL is usually associated with cutting-edge transportation such as planes, electric trucks or even drones. But local circumstances sometimes dictate a more creative approach, as the company reports in its latest survey.
For example, a truck or even a bicycle wouldn’t get you very far in ...
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DHL Group is to invest €2 billion (US$2.2bn) over the next five years in the life sciences and healthcare sector as part of its Strategy 2030.
Some 50% of the investment allocated to the Americas, 25% to Asia Pacific, and 25% to the EMEA region and ...
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Federal Express has opened a first- and last-mile location in Amsterdam. Located next to Schiphol Airport, it offers direct connections to 45 markets in Europe. Its 16,000sq m warehouse doubles space compared to the previous location and has tripled sorting capacity to 4,500 packages per ...
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Lufthansa Group’s high-speed logistics arm, Time:matters, has opened a branch near Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport. It will be led by regional director Western Europe Pieter-Jaap Zijlstra and staffed with a dedicated Country Manager France, as well as teams for sales, operations, customer service, and ...
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Emirates Skycargo has launched an Emirates Courier Express end-to-end delivery service. It aims to break away from traditional hub-and-spoke models, with packages making multiple stops before arriving at destination and instead travelling from origin to destination directly, like passengers. The carrier says that this significantly ...
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Yesterday, we ran a story about parcel delivery firm Evri, the UK’s largest parcel delivery firm’s robot delivery dogs.
Now, we can reveal that, despite the 1 April dateline, it wasn’t an April Fool.
In a UK first, the robot version of man’s best friend will work ...
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Awery Aviation Software says that Schiphol-based on board courier Wings achieved a 25% increase in productivity since implementing its tailored digital solution.
In collaboration with the Wings team, Awery developed a comprehensive OBC service solution, incorporating Awery's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, with custom-designed track-and-trace software ...
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DHL Group is to acquire 100% of Cryopdp, a global provider of supply chain solutions for the life sciences sector from Nashville-based parent company, medical logistics specialist Cryoport, subject to regulatory approvals.
Cropdp specialises in movements for clinical trials, biopharma and cell and gene therapies. It ...
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UPS has launched a Global Checkout service to help consumers avoid unexpected bills for unpaid import costs. It guarantees the amount online shoppers pay in duties, fees and taxes.
UPS says it is the only global integrated carrier to offer a guaranteed landed cost solution for ...
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