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DHL (German pronunciation: [ˌdeːhaːˈʔɛl]) is a multinational logistics brand, founded in the United States and headquartered in Bonn, Germany. [5] It provides courier, package delivery, and express mail service, delivering over 1.7 billion parcels per year. [6]
DHL semitrailer truck. The DHL Global Forwarding division carries goods by rail, road, air and sea under the DHL brand and includes the DHL Freight operation which runs a ground-based freight network covering Europe, Russia and traffic into the Middle East. In 2016, this division's revenue declined by 7.7 percent to €13.7 billion but ...
Dimensional weight, also known as volumetric weight, is a pricing technique for commercial freight transport (including courier and postal services), which uses an estimated weight that is calculated from the length, width and height of a package.
A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport (truck, ship, train, aircraft), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
' German Post ') is a brand of the DHL Group [4] (listed as "Deutsche Post AG" [5] [4]), used for its domestic mail services in Germany. [2] The services offered under the brand are those of a traditional mail service, making the brand the successor of the former state-owned mail monopoly, Deutsche Bundespost .
2002 – Deutsche Post World Net becomes the major shareholder in DHL from 1 January. By the end of the year, the company owns 100 percent of the DHL shares. [5] 2003 – Deutsche Post, DHL and Postbank make up the Group's current brand architecture. DHL now serves as the exclusive brand for all express and logistics activities.
The company was founded by DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo on 12 September 2007. Flight operations started on 29 June 2009, [1] following the delivery of its first aircraft on 12 May of that year, a Boeing 777 Freighter, making AeroLogic the first German operator of that type.
Yodel is a delivery service company based in Liverpool, England. [1] [2] It was originally known as the Home Delivery Network (HDN, [3] full name Home Delivery Network Limited, HDNL), [4] until it acquired the business-to-business (B2B) and retail operations of DHL Express UK and thereafter, rebranded itself as Yodel in May 2010.