DHL International GmbH
Type	Private
Founded	1969
Headquarters	Bonn, Germany (Global) Plantation, Florida (Americas) Singapore (Asia Pacific) Bahrain (EEMEA)
Key people	Adrian Dalsey (co-founder), Larry Hillblom (co-founder), and Robert Lynn (co-founder)
Industry	Express Logistics
Products	Freight Forwarding Services Logistic Services Express Logistics
Owner	Deutsche Post
Employees	285,000 (2006)
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A DHL Boeing 757 at Cologne/Bonn Airport.

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 light railway. DHL service booths are available at selected stations

DHL Balloon in Singapore run by DUCKtours tour organiser.

DHL advertising board in Singapore.

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The trio initially provided a courier service between the Continental United States and Hawaii then 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. For other uses, see Courier (disambiguation). ... The continental United States is a term referring to the United States situated on the North American continent. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... See stock (disambiguation) for other meanings of the term stock A stock, also referred to as a share, is commonly a share of ownership in a corporation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Overview

DHL's global headquarters are located in Bonn and London (Exel). Headquarters for the Americas are located in Plantation, Florida, while its Asia Pacific & EEMEA headquarters are located respectively in Singapore & Bahrain/Brussels. Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Exel plc is a British based logistics company. ... World map showing the Americas CIA political map of the Americas in an equal-area projection The Americas are the lands of New World, consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida in the United States. ...

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/Halle Airport, Germany in 2008.^[1] DHL Air Ltd operates out of East Midlands Airport with a fleet of 22 Boeing 757SF freighter aircraft. FedEx Airbus A300 Cargo airlines are airlines dedicated to the transportation of cargo. ... Airbus A300B4 Freighter European Air Transport is a cargo airline based in Brussels, Belgium. ... DHL Air Boeing 757-236(SF) DHL Air is a cargo airline based in Castle Donington, United Kingdom. ... For the airport in Charleroi, see Brussels South Charleroi Airport. ... Leipzig/Halle Airport sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport (IATA: LEJ, ICAO: EDDP) serves both Leipzig, Saxony and Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... East Midlands Airport[1] (IATA: EMA, ICAO: EGNX) is an airport in the East Midlands of England, near Castle Donington in Leicestershire. ...

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. Federal Express redirects here. ... United Parcel Service, Inc. ... Old design Royal TPG Post wall box TNT N.V. is a global express and mail delivery services company with headquarters in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. ... USPS and Usps redirect here. ... Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. ...

DHL is well known for its ability to offer freight and package shipping service worldwide, including to countries such as Iraq and Myanmar. As it is German-owned, DHL is not affected by U.S. embargoes or sanctions and will ship to Cuba^[2] or North Korea. ^[3] Starting in 2006, Deutsche Post World Net launched its 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 its 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. Anthem Kaba Ma Kyei Capital Naypyidaw Largest city Yangon Official languages Burmese Demonym Burmese Government Military junta  -  Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Than Shwe  -  Prime Minister Soe Win  -  Acting Prime Minister Thein Sein Establishment  -  Bagan 849–1287   -  Taungoo Dynasty 1486–1752   -  Konbaung Dynasty 1752–1885   -  Colonial rule... For delayed access after publication, see Embargo (academic publishing). ...

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, although the recipient can opt to pay for the charges of the delivery at their premises. In Major League Baseball sponsorship, it is the "Official logistics provider of Major League Baseball" and sponsors the Hometown Heroes. Major Leagues redirects here. ... Hometown Heroes was a program sponsored by DHL. On September 27, 2006, Major League Baseball announced a list of players, one from each team, voted by MLB fans: † player spent his entire career with one team The Official Hometown Heroes Panel Orestes Destrade (ESPN and XM Satellite Radio broadcaster) Steve...

DHL is organized in four divisions:

• DHL Express
• DHL Global Mail
• DHL Global Business Services (as of 1st January 2008)
• DHL Logistics, which is in turn further sub-divided into:
  • DHL Global Forwarding (DGF)
  • DHL Exel Supply Chain
  • DHL Freight & Contract Logistics

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. ^[4] This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. ... ASTAR Air Cargo is an American cargo airline based in Miami, Florida, USA. It operates regularly secheduled cargo charter services to over 34 US airports and nine international airports, as well as worldwide charter freight services. ...

• 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 DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757-200 cargo jet, at 35,000 ft over Überlingen, 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.^[5]
• August 2003: Deutsche Post acquires Airborne Express, and begins to integrate it into DHL. The Airborne Express Airline named ABX Air provides contract ACMI service through 2011.
• November 22, 2003: DHL shootdown incident in Baghdad: Iraqi insurgents fired an SA-7 "Grail" surface-to-air missile at a 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. ^[6]
• 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. ^[7]

• 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 £1.6 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. ^[8]

• September 2007: DHL Express co-founds new cargo airline AeroLogic in a 50:50 joint venture with Lufthansa Cargo. The carrier will operate up to 11 Boeing 777Fs by 2012.^[9]

• December 2007: DHL becomes the first ever carrier to transport cargo via wind powered ships flying MS Beluga Skysails kites.

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Biman Bangladesh Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a three-engined long-range airliner, with two engines mounted on underwing pylons and a third engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer. ... Brussels International Airport, also called Brussels Airport, is located in Zaventem, near Brussels, Belgium. ... is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leipzig ( ; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk from the Sorbian word for Tilia) is, with a population of over 506,000, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. ... 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The NHS Supply Chain is a joint venture between the NHS Business Services Authority and DHL. The organisations role is to provide a dedicated supply chain to the English NHS. The contract for the venture was signed in September 2006 and became active in October 2006. ... NHS redirects here. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see September (disambiguation). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Lufthansa Cargo is the cargo airline subsidiary of Lufthansa based in Frankfurt, Germany. ... The Boeing 777 is an American long-range wide-body twin-engine airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

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] is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is a contract animal-testing company founded in 1952 in England, now with facilities in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and Eye, Suffolk in the UK; New Jersey in the U.S.; and in Japan. ...

Air freight

Main article: DHL Aviation

DHL Aviation, a DHL subsidiary, operates a fleet of more than 70 aircraft providing global air freight services. DHL Aviation Airbus A300B4-200F landing at London Heathrow Airport DHL Aviation N.V. (IATA: , ICAO: DHV, and Callsign: ) is a cargo airline owned by DHL. It operates out of its main hub at Brussels International Airport, opened in 1985. ... DHL Aviation Airbus A300B4-200F landing at London Heathrow Airport DHL Aviation N.V. (IATA: , ICAO: DHV, and Callsign: ) is a cargo airline owned by DHL. It operates out of its main hub at Brussels International Airport, opened in 1985. ... FedEx DC-10 Cargo airlines (or airfreight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines dedicated to the transport of cargo. ...

References

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External links

Main

• DHL.com - Links to each country's DHL website
• DHL Pakistan - DHL Pakistan
• Deutsche Post (DHL Helper)
• Van Gend en Loos Now known as DHL Koerier Netherlands

Other

• exdhl.com
• DHL Bus program in Toronto
• ASTAR MEC (DHL Airways) Labor Talks
• DHL shipping and delivery holidays in the U.S. - Internet Accuracy Project