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...

Japanese logistics provider Yamato Transport has ordered 500 electric vehicles from StreetScooter, a Deutsche Post DHL Group subsidiary. The hundred-year-old Yamato Transport is Japan’s leading business for domestic pa...

Deutsche Post DHL Group CEO Frank Appel told the Wall Street Journal that the company is not currently interested in the logistics mergers and acquisitions market, despite growing activity in the industry. Instead, the compa...

Deutsche Post DHL Group is expecting operating profits of at least €5 billion in 2020, after a successful financial year despite global trade uncertainties. The company reported a 6% organic rise in group revenue to &eu...

DHL Express may be launching new delivery barges on the Thames later this year, as part of its green strategy. CEO John Pearson told The Loadstar that the company was working on a scheme similar to the one it currently opera...

DHL has hired hundreds of workers to help manage new customs procedures following Brexit, which is expected to arrive on March 29th. After this date, all companies involved with international shipping may have to deal with n...

DHL Global Forwarding has opened a Global Competence Center for Humanitarian Logistics in Dubai, so that it can more effectively manage the logistics of aid-giving during humanitarian crises. Fatima Ait Bendawad, who has 15 ...

Frank Appel, CEO of Deutsche Post DHL, told the BBC that while DHL might benefit from a no-deal Brexit in the short term, “we should not focus on short-term profits” as the outcome would be negative in the long te...

Street Scooter, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has received EC type approval from the KBA—the German transport authority—for large series production of its WORK electric delivery van. This follows appro...