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POPSDHL Disaster Response Team: Good to Go! I rarely mention my employer here at Freightdawg.com because I think its important to blog at an industry level. However, I am extremely proud of a particular group that I am humbled to call colleagues. DHL Disaster Response Team (DRT) is a volunteer group of people who react to both domestic and international disasters, whether man made or natural. The DHL press release below documents the efforts of the Americas DRT in its present deployment in Peru as a result of the earthquake there.
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POPSDHL Investment in Polar Air Clears Hurdle DHL Express has invested 150 million dollars into Polar Air, an all cargo airline subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide. The deal gives DHL extensive extra lift capability into a number of markets. DHL's investment represents a 49% stake in the carrier. DHL is number 1 in market share worldwide in international parcel express with as much as a 40 percent market share in Asia. Polar AIr's B747 fleet will augment DHL's own fleet and charters.
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POPSSupply Chains in Space! Leave it to the brainiacs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to think about the provisioning of interplanetary fixed based stations. Engineers at MIT, Olivier de Weck and David Simchi-Levi have created a tool called SpaceNet, which models movement of freight between Earth and stations on the moon. With transit times of up to 9 months on a mission to Mars, supply chain execution in space would be difficult. Perhaps the moon will serve as a staging area for the future! Now how long until FedEx or DHL start advertising interplanetary Express services? When it absolutely positively has to get there...in 10 months!
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POPSChina is the Market... Investment in Chinese supply chain infrastructure continues rapid expansion with DHL announcing a new multi-million dollar investment and FedEx spending 400 mil to buy out their general agent DTW. Walmart meanwhile buys a China hypermart chain with 89 locations. China is the market..no longer just the export factory location.
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POPSFedEx acquires balance of DTW FedEx acquires the remaining 50% of their general agent in China. This does not add domestic capacity, it only changes the ownership to 100% FedEx. Gives them a controlling interest in the international parcel business from China. DTW retains the intra-China business so far as I know.
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POPSDHL expects 10 million flowers on Valentines DHL expecting bumper crop of flower shipments for Valentines this year. Formerly a FedEx dominated market, DHL has made significant inroads into the shipment and handling of transit sensitive perishable goods like flowers and pharmaceuticals.
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