According to research by DHL, 75% of companies believe investment in ground transportation will directly support company growth, due to the rapid expansion of e-commerce and the way shippers choose their transportation soluti...

Construction has begun on the new DHL Campus Vienna Airport in Fischamend, Austria, which will serve as a central logistics centre in Austria and a gateway to Eastern Europe. Executives from DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Fre...

DHL has set up DHL Parcel (Switzerland) AG to develop its parcel delivery services within the European country. The company will build on an existing network of DHL ServicePoints, which are outlets operated by local partners...

DHL eCommerce has launched a fleet of electric motorbikes in Malaysia and Vietnam, as part of its commitment to zero emissions by 2050. The courier company, which has an extensive network in the region, aims to operate 70% o...

Automobile manufacturer Daimler, a competitor of DHL for electric vehicle production, reportedly posed as a customer of DHL’s to get access to one of its StreetScooters. According to Der Spiegel, Daimler engineers alle...

DHL Express has added five A330-200F aircraft to its freighter fleet. The aircraft previously belonged to Etihad, which has been reducing its own cargo-only capacity. According to DHL, “The purchase of these aircraft i...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has won a High Court ruling after legal action against it by DHL. The courier company accused the DHSC of improper conduct in the awarding of a new contract, worth £730 m...

DHL has expanded its medical express service between the US and Mexico. With its DHL Worldwide Medical Express (WMX) service, the company manages the export and regulatory requirements for urgent shipments, as well as attend...

DHL Global Forwarding has safely shipped four Ussuri brown bears from Japan to Yorkshire Wildlife Park in the UK. Riku, Kai, Hanako and Amu were transported 9,000km from Hokkaido, via Haneda Airport in Tokyo. They arrived in...

DHL Deutsche Post is closing its online marketplace, Allyouneed.com, which was previously known as MeinPaket.de. Allyouneed was an e-commerce platform with over 3,000 merchants, mainly based in Germany. Deliveries were fulfi...

UK Mail is rebranding to DHL Parcel UK, the company announced. The postal service has 50 sites across the UK, which will all be rebranded along with the company’s vehicles, website and social media channels. This follo...

DHL has identified 28 key business, social and technology trends in its Logistics Trend Radar 2018/9 report, based on input from over 10,000 industry professionals. As illustrated in the radar infographic below, the report p...

On 20th June, World Refugee Day, Deutsche Post DHL Group announced that it currently employs 1,702 refugees from Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Syria. In addition, the company said that 4,790 refugees had been given &ldquo...

Sending a parcel via DHL? New packing requirements were introduced for DHL on 1st June 2018. There aren’t too many differences from the general packing advice that applies for all of our couriers (still worth readi...

DHL Express has launched a new worldwide digital campaign, “Where Everything Clicks”, pushing its e-commerce services for businesses. According to DHL, 70% of online buyers made a purchase from an international w...

The government-owned POST Luxembourg is to become an official partner of DHL Parcel for cross-border parcel shipping. POST Luxembourg will initially use the DHL Parcel Europe network for imports, taking advantage of its retu...

Online grocery shopping company Milk & More has ordered 200 electric vehicles from StreetScooter, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group. Deutsche Post created StreetScooters, its own brand of electric delivery vans, in...

DHL has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Rail Cargo Group for the joint development of a new rail route between Chengdu, China, and Vienna, Austria. Crossing 9,800 kilometres and six countries (China, Kazakhst...

DHL CEO Frank Appel argued against protectionist rhetoric in his speech at his company’s annual general meeting this year. "The future is global," he said. "Anything else is a misconception. If you build...

DHL and technology company IBM have released a report on the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) in logistics. According to the report, which examines use cases for AI within the industry, its use "has the potent...

DHL has launched a new e-commerce fulfilment platform and centres in the United Kingdom, Americas and South East Asia, as part of its plans to become a leading global provider of e-commerce logistics. Its new IT platform all...

DHL is expanding a delivery service for online retailers in the US. The Parcel Metro service, operated by DHL eCommerce, has already been tested in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, and will be introduced to Atlanta, Dallas,...

KFC will no longer be using DHL for its 350 restaurants in the north of the UK, after logistical issues led to chicken shortages and the closure of over 600 restaurants nationwide. The fast food company will be renewing its ...

A report commissioned by DHL claims that 95% of companies have not yet made the most of the potential of digital technologies to improve their supply chain operations. The report, put together by the lharrington group LLC, s...