的快递服务提供商DHL Express今天宣布，它将在2020年至2022年期间投资超过3.6亿美元，在美洲地区的主要增长市场建造新的和扩建现有的设施。此外，该公司计划斥资数百万美元采取措施加强其美洲航空网络，例如引入新的直飞航线。
这些投资是在B2C和B2B电子商务出货量大幅增长之后进行的，2021年第一季度，美洲国家的平均每天出货量比上一年增加了33%。美洲地区国家包括美国、加拿大、墨西哥、南美洲和中美洲以及加勒比地区。2021年第一季度，美国的出货量比2020年第一季度增长了41%。
DHL Express Americas首席执行官Mike Parra表示：“在数字化和全球贸易力量的推动下，全球化继续显示出其弹性。”。“随着越来越多的消费者将购物活动转移到网上，以及在全球市场上销售商品的企业急剧增加，我们需要继续对我们的网络基础设施进行关键投资，以满足国际电子商务和全球贸易的增长需求。”
许多基础设施投资将集中在该公司的设施上，其中包括提货和送货业务的服务中心、管理国际货物清关的网关，以及作为往返世界各地货物中转点的枢纽。位于佛罗里达州迈阿密的一个扩建的Zui先进的枢纽目前正在建设中，按Time Definite International（）的数量计算，它将成为全球第六大DHL Express枢纽。位于安大略省汉密尔顿（加拿大）的一个新的24.4万平方英尺的自动化中心是DHL在该地区的另一项重大投资。一旦完成，新中心的规模将是现有中心的四倍。
DHL Express还将在其整个区域网络中增加新的服务中心并升级现有设施，以支持第一英里和Zui后一英里的提货和送货业务，同时加强其他枢纽和网关，并扩大其在南美主要市场的零售足迹。
在墨西哥，大量投资将支持不断增长的限时国内（TDD）市场。为了支持第一英里和Zui后一英里的货物处理，2021年将在零售柜台安装105个自助服务亭，以方便客户。墨西哥城、瓜达拉哈拉和蒙特雷的枢纽和网关将升级为Zui先进的自动化系统。服务中心将扩展到全国各地的主要市场。
DHL Express, the world’s leading express service provider, announced today that it is investing more than $360 million USD between 2020 and 2022 to build new and expand existing facilities in key growth markets within the Americas region. Additionally, the company intends to spend millions on measures to bolster its Americas air network, such as introducing new, direct flight routes.
The investments come on the heels of significant B2C and B2B e-commerce shipment growth, where the Americas countries experienced, on average, 33% more shipments per day in Q1 2021 as compared to the previous year. The Americas region countries include the United States, Canada, Mexico, South and Central America and the Caribbean. For the U.S shipment volumes were up 41% in Q1 2021 vs. Q1 2020.
“Globalization has continued to show its resilience, fueled by digitalization and the power of global trade,” said Mike Parra, CEO, DHL Express Americas. “With an ever increasing number of consumers shifting their shopping activities online, and the sharp rise in businesses selling their goods in the global marketplace, we need to continue the critical investments in our network infrastructure to meet the growth demands in international e-commerce and global trade.”
Many of the infrastructure investments will focus on the company’s facilities, which include service centers for pickup and delivery operations, gateways that manage the international clearance of shipments, and hubs which operate as shipment transfer points to and from regions of the world. An expanded state-of-the-art hub in Miami, Florida that is currently under construction will be the 6th-largest DHL Express hub globally by Time Definite International () volume. A new, 244,000 sq. ft. automated hub in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) is another major DHL investment in the region. Once finalized, the new hub will be four times the size of the current one.
DHL Express will also be adding new service centers and upgrading existing facilities throughout its regional network to support first- and- last-mile pickup and delivery operations, also enhancing other hubs and gateways and expanding its retail footprint in key markets in South America.
In Mexico, significant investments will support the ever-growing Time Definite Domestic (TDD) market. To support first and last mile shipment processing, 105 self-service kiosks will be installed at retail counters for customer convenience during 2021. Hubs and gateways will be upgraded with state-of-the-art automation in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. And service centers will be expanded in key markets throughout the country.
