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Dhl
Company that offers speedy pickup and delivery of letters and packages.
Abbreviations:
DHL
is short for:
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DHL
DHL International GmbH
Type
Private
Founded
1969
Headquarters
Bonn,
Germany (Global)
Plantation, Florida (Americas)
Singapore (Asia Pacific)
Key people
Adrian Dalsey (co-founder),
Larry Hillblom (co-founder), and
Robert Lynn (co-founder)
Industry
Air Courier
Products
Freight Forwarding Services
Logistic Services
Courier Services
Owner
Deutsche Post
Employees
285,000 (2006)
Slogan
Express & Logistics.
We move the world
All the way
I'm on it!
First Choice
First Choice for our customers. Worldwide.
Website
www.dhl.com
A DHL Boeing 757.
A DHL "Sprinter" van.
DHL Boat in Venice.
DHL boat in Amsterdam, carrying DHL bicycles aboard.
Buenos Aires – DHL advertising in Tren de la Costa tramway, DHL service booths are provided at selected stations
DHL Balloon in Singapore run by DUCKtours tour organiser.
DHL advertising board in Singapore.
DHL (originally standing for Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn) is a Deutsche Post company that provides international shipping of documents
and freight as well as contract logistics. The company was founded in 1969 by Adrian Dalsey, Larry
Hillblom, and Robert Lynn.
The trio initially provided a courier service between the mainland U.S. and Hawaii and expanded
the business from there. In 1998, Deutsche Post began to acquire shares in DHL, finally reached majority ownership in 2001, and completed the purchase in 2002. In the UK, Deutsche Post also acquired Securicor Omega.
Overview
DHL's global headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany and
London, UK (Exel
plc). Headquarters for the Americas are located in Plantation, Florida, USA
while its Asia Pacific headquarters are located in Singapore.
DHL owns its own cargo airlines, European Air
Transport, based in Brussels, and DHL Air, based in the UK. EAT currently operates out of
Brussels Airport in Belgium with a fleet of Boeing
757SF freighters and a fleet of Airbus A300 B4 freighters, but is in the process of transferring the bulk of its European air
operations to Leipzig, Germany. DHL Air Ltd operates out of East Midlands Airport with a fleet
of 22 Boeing 757SF freighter aircraft.
Major competitors include FedEx, UPS,
TNT, and national post carriers such as United
States Postal Service and Royal Mail. However, DHL has a minor partnership with the
USPS, which allows DHL to deliver small packages to the recipient through the USPS network. This service, called DHL@Home, saves
DHL from making expensive trips to residential areas to deliver a single package.
DHL is well known for its ability to offer freight and package shipping service worldwide, including to countries such as
Iraq and Burma. As it is German owned, DHL is not affected by the
U.S. embargoes and will ship to Cuba[1] or North Korea. [2] Starting in 2006, Deutsche Post World Net launched it's First Choice initiative,
which is being rolled out to all DPWN business organizations. The First Choice initiative has the goal of improving the way DHL
and it's parent company DPWN communicates with its customers, as well as strengthen customer loyalty and increase the efficiency
and quality of all products and services offered.
DHL may require some international recipients to pay any customs charges into DHL's foreign bank account and proof of payment
provided, before package delivery can be completed. Such cases may involve a physical journey to the DHL bank and/or the local
DHL office and the recipient cannot opt to pay the charges on delivery to their door.[3] This appears somewhat contrary to DHL's worldwide promise of fast door to door
service.[4][5]
In Major League Baseball sponsorship, it is the "Official logistics provider of
Major League Baseball" and sponsors the Hometown Heroes.
DHL is organized in three divisions:
DHL Express
DHL Global Mail
DHL Logistics, which is in turn further sub-divided into:
DHL Global Forwarding (DGF)
DHL Exel Supply Chain
DHL Freight
History
DHL began as a courier service between San Francisco and Honolulu in 1969. In the next few years, they expanded to the Pacific Rim, and soon to Europe. All US domestic
flights were handled by DHL Airways, Inc. which in 2003 was renamed ASTAR Air Cargo. DHL's first airline still remains with over
550 pilots in service to this day. [6]
1999: DHL purchased the Dutch shipping company Van Gend & Loos EuroExpress
and merged it with its existing operations in the Netherlands.
2001: Deutsche Post World Net acquired a majority (51%) of DHL's shares, and the
remaining 49% in 2002. The new DHL was launched by merging the old DHL, Danzas and Securicor
Omega Euro Express.
2002: Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, collided with a DHL Boeing 757 at
35,000 ft over Гњberlingen, Germany, due to a miscommunication between the pilots of Flight
2937 and Swiss air traffic control. The 69 people aboard the Tupolev (consisting mainly of
Russian schoolchildren) and the two pilots of the Boeing were killed.
August 2003: Deutsche Post acquires Airborne Express, and begins to integrate it
into DHL.
November 22 2003: DHL shootdown incident in Baghdad: Iraqi insurgents fired an SA-7 "Grail" surface-to-air missile at an European Air Transport Airbus A300 operating on behalf of
DHL. The aircraft had taken off from Baghdad airport. The missile struck the left wing,
disabling all three hydraulic systems and setting the wing on fire. The plane
began a dangerous phugoid (vertical oscillation) but the crew managed to land safely at the
airport despite only being able to control the plane by adjusting the engine thrust. No other crew had ever been able to achieve
a landing in this fashion, though the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 was
able to also navigate their DC-10-10 after a similar triple hydraulic failure.
[7]
September 2004: a planned expansion by DHL at Brussels International Airport
created a political crisis in Belgium.
October 21 2004: DHL announced that it would move its
European hub from Brussels to Leipzig, Germany (Vatry,
France was considered and rejected). DHL's unions call a
strike in response, paralyzing work for a day.
November 8 2004: DHL invests €120 million in Indian
domestic courier Blue Dart and becomes the majority shareholder in the company.
[8]
September 2005: Deutsche Post made an offer to buy contract
logistics company Exel plc, which had just acquired Tibbett &
Britten. Exel became part of DHL in December 2005. Following the latest deal, DHL have a global workforce of 285,000
people (500,000 people including DPWN and other sister companies) and roughly $65 billion in annual sales.
September 2006: DHL wins ten year contract worth ВЈ1.6
billion, to run the NHS Supply Chain (part of the UK's National Health Service). DHL will be responsible for providing logistics services for over
500,000 products to support 600 hospitals and other health providers in England. As part of this
new contract, in 2008 DHL will open a new 250,000 sq ft distribution centre to act as a stock holding hub for food and other
products, with another distribution centre opening in 2012. The two new distribution centres will create around 1,000 new jobs.
[9]
Animal rights activists
On September 16 2005 DHL won a High Court injunction
establishing an exclusion zone around each of its 288 buildings in the UK as well as the
homes of its 18,000 UK employees. The firm has been the subject of a campaign of intimidation because of their business with
Huntingdon Life Sciences. The judge, Mr. Justice Bean, banned protesters from
coming within 50 yards of any DHL premises or the homes of their employees as well as any organized demonstration within 100
yards unless the police had been given four hours notice. The injunction also protects anyone doing business with DHL from
intimidation [10].
See also
Express mail
Globalization
Deutsche Postbank
Atlas Air
References
^ DHL
Website, page for Cuba
^ page
for Korea
^ The Myth of DHL customer service
^ DHL fast door to door
service
^ DHL fast door to
door service Venezuela
^ DHL USA website
^ flight safety
^ DHL Global Press
Release
^ DHL UK
press release
^ Vare.org.uk
External links
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The Myth Of DHL Customer Service
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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more
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