DHL has partnered with drone company Dronamics to develop “middle-mile” cargo drone solutions. Dronamics’ Black Swan unmanned aircraft would be used for urgent deliveries. The two companies are still in dis...

A new white paper from DHL, which looks back on the global logistics response to the COVID-19 pandemic, seeks to emphasise the important role of the private sector in countries’ public health schemes. DHL has distribut...

DHL Express has announced a new partnership with Fiat Professional and purchased 100 new Fiat E-Ducato vans for its fleet in Europe. According to DHL, this forms part of its plan to add more than 14,000 e-vehicles to its fle...

DHL Express just released a new whitepaper on e-commerce that proclaims, “Tradition is Out. Digital is in.” The paper predicts that by 2025, 80% of all business-to-business (B2B) sales interactions between supplie...

DHL has opened its new international logistics hub at Malpensa Airport near Milano, Southern Italy. The hub is capable of operating more than 30 flights a day and almost 38,000 pieces per hour through its sorting and scannin...

Deutsche Post DHL Group has begun a trial of new parcel machines in Germany that allow customers to do several things that would normally require a trip to the post office. The new machines, dubbed Poststations, allow custom...

DHL Express has hired 10,000 to help it cope with the volume surge over the Black Friday and Christmas period. The courier company is expecting 50% more deliveries than the same time last year, and said that it had already i...

A daily freight service by boat has replaced trucks for some DHL Express deliveries into central London. The boat, operated by Thames Clippers Logistics, transports small packages at high speeds to the heart of the capital, ...

DHL Supply Chain has teamed up with software company Blue Yonder to create a “plug and play” robotics platform, built in Microsoft Azure. The platform is intended to speed up the time and programming efforts it t...

DHL Express Germany and Airport Munich GmbH have drawn up a contract for a new freight building. The 8,000 square metre site, on land leased from FMG, will have direct airside access and two “PuD fingers”, which ...

DHL has released a report looking at the benefits of 5G technology in the logistics industry. The report focuses on greater connectedness as part of the “Internet of Things” (IoT), which generally refers to the p...

Deutsche Post DHL Group has announced that it is ending the manufacture of its StreetScooter electric vans before the end of the year. A spokesperson told German news agency dpa: “There will be no more new orders. The ...

DHL Express plans to take on six new Boeing 777F-200 cargo aircraft this year, the first of which is already parked up at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The six aircraft are part of the 14 new 777Fs orde...

DHL is back in the fashion game, this time sponsoring a show at New York’s JFK airport. The event, which took place on 7th February, was meant to highlight sustainable shipping and logistics in fashion. The event was o...

Amazon, DHL and other major companies have joined Ceres’ Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance, which aims to boost the adoption of electric vehicles. The purpose of the Alliance is to signal corporate demand for EVs, an...

DHL Express CEO John Pearson said the company is not worried about online customers like Amazon becoming rivals. Pearson, speaking at the opening of DHL’s new logistics centre at the Cologne-Bonn airport, pointed out t...

In its third quarter, Deutsche Post DHL Group reported a 4.7% year-on-year revenue increase to €15.6 billion, with growth in all of its divisions, despite the uncertain global economic outlook. The company boosted its o...

As part of its Strategy 2025, Deutsche Post DHL Group will be investing €2 billion in digitalisation of the company’s operations. The digitalisation strategy includes greater automation, modernising IT systems, tr...

Deutsche Post DHL Group has announced that 10,000 of its electric StreetScooters are now in service, bringing the company closer to its 2050 zero emissions target for logistics operations. According to the company’s pr...

DHL is boosting its collaborating with Austrian Post to support last-mile deliveries in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Starting in September 2019, Austrian Post subsidiary In Time s.r.o. will deliver for DHL in Slovakia, w...

DHL is trialling a new delivery notification service in some parts of Germany, which emails the recipient an approximate delivery time in advance, then the “exact” time around 15 minutes before delivery. The cour...

DHL Express has launched its first fully automated urban drone delivery service in partnership with Chinese company EHang. It’s the first international courier company to do so in China. DHL has created a customised 8k...

The Deutsche Post DHL Group may be looking to sell its StreetScooter subsidiary, according to comments made by CEO Frank Appel at the Wirtschaftspresseclub in Stuttgart. Appel said that the Group is open to the possibility n...

DHL Express has joined the trial of a new parcel locker network in Denmark, created by national postal operator PostNord and software company SwipBox. Nærboks, literally “nearby box”, functions much like ot...