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Oct 02, 2013 (newstodate): DHL Express is to increase its traffic and volumes at Denmark's Copenhagen Airport.
-We are currently planning for adding up to 85 more staff at our base at the airport, as well as increasing our flight operations from currently four to ten rotations per day, says Claus Lassen, DHL Express Country Manager Denmark.
-Behind this expansion is the role of the Copenhagen hub for transfer of shipments to Sweden, Norway and Finland. But also driving the process is the saturation at our European hub at Leipzig that is seeing volumes exceeding capacity of the terminals despite heavy investments in the infrastructure.
-To ease the stress on the Leipzig hub, part of the traffic will be routed through other stations, with Copenhagen to see direct flights also to and from Brussels, Cologne and East Midlands. These changes in the route structure of DHL Express are thus benefiting us at Copenhagen, and while this is a temporary measure we will of course fight to retain this role also after capacity at the Leipzig hub has been increased.
-The significant boost in staff will, however, also benefit our local and regional customers by allowing us to enhance our customer services.
-We are seeing the volume of shipments increasing in the Danish market, driven by the hike in consumers' internet-based orders. Actually, this volume has been growing by some 30 percent over the recent year.
-This consumer-driven internet commerce is turning cargo volumes from sea to air transportation, generating increasing business for DHL Express also in Denmark where 85 percent of our shipments are carried by air, and the remaining 15 percent by road transportation.
-So, import volumes are growing while export volumes are unfortunately still lagging behind, reflecting the general cautious development in the country's economy and foreign trade, together with the tendency towards outsourcing of production to countries in Central and Eastern Europe, says Mr Lassen.
Since April 6, 2010, the company has also stationed one Boeing 757-200F aircraft at Billund Airport, flying in from Leipzig in the morning and going back to Leipzig again in the night, connecting western Denmark more closely to the DHL hub at Leipzig.
-We are currently planning for adding up to 85 more staff at our base at the airport, as well as increasing our flight operations from currently four to ten rotations per day, says Claus Lassen, DHL Express Country Manager Denmark.
-Behind this expansion is the role of the Copenhagen hub for transfer of shipments to Sweden, Norway and Finland. But also driving the process is the saturation at our European hub at Leipzig that is seeing volumes exceeding capacity of the terminals despite heavy investments in the infrastructure.
-To ease the stress on the Leipzig hub, part of the traffic will be routed through other stations, with Copenhagen to see direct flights also to and from Brussels, Cologne and East Midlands. These changes in the route structure of DHL Express are thus benefiting us at Copenhagen, and while this is a temporary measure we will of course fight to retain this role also after capacity at the Leipzig hub has been increased.
-The significant boost in staff will, however, also benefit our local and regional customers by allowing us to enhance our customer services.
-We are seeing the volume of shipments increasing in the Danish market, driven by the hike in consumers' internet-based orders. Actually, this volume has been growing by some 30 percent over the recent year.
-This consumer-driven internet commerce is turning cargo volumes from sea to air transportation, generating increasing business for DHL Express also in Denmark where 85 percent of our shipments are carried by air, and the remaining 15 percent by road transportation.
-So, import volumes are growing while export volumes are unfortunately still lagging behind, reflecting the general cautious development in the country's economy and foreign trade, together with the tendency towards outsourcing of production to countries in Central and Eastern Europe, says Mr Lassen.
Since April 6, 2010, the company has also stationed one Boeing 757-200F aircraft at Billund Airport, flying in from Leipzig in the morning and going back to Leipzig again in the night, connecting western Denmark more closely to the DHL hub at Leipzig.