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Aimed at supporting the growth of export and import demands of customers especially SMB’s in the Northern region, logistic service provider-DHL Express India (P) Ltd, opened its new modern service facility in Chandigarh. The new facility will serve as a pick-up, delivery, sorting center etc., with a shipment handling capacity of over 100,000 shipments a year and will cater to the logistics needs of customers-based at Chandigarh and its vicinity namely Dera Bassi, Mohali, Panchkula, Zirakpur, Baddi, Parwanoo etc.
Speaking to Business Standard, RS Subramanian, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, DHL Express said, “In the recent past, due to rapid industrialization, the tricity namely Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula and nearby areas like Zirakpur, Baddi, Parwanoo etc. has grown in prominence as an industrial hub. Through the service center facility, we are strengthening our infrastructure and capabilities to support our customers’ growing business. We will now be able to move shipments faster and with greater efficiency, providing superior service quality.”
Located centrally in Chandigarh, the new facility will serve as a pick-up, delivery and sorting center, with a shipment handling capacity of over 100,000 shipments a year. It will also allow for early delivery of export shipments and later pick-ups of import shipments, giving customers more time and flexibility to work. All shipments for Chandigarh, Dera Bassi, Mohali, Panchkula and Zirakpur will now have a same-day connection to Delhi.
This is the company’s second service centre in the Northern region excluding Delhi and NCR. Buoyed by the response, recently, it has expanded its Ludhiana which is a key industrial hub of Punjab and is one of the leading business centers in the whole northern region of India. The Ludhiana centre caters to customer requirements of Jalandhar, Phagwara, Amritsar, Mandi, Gobindgarh, Moga etc. and having capacity to handle over 200,000 shipments a year. In Ludhiana, it is catering to the needs of variety of industries in Ludhiana like textiles, hosiery, bicycle manufacturers, auto part dealers, precision equipment dealers, and manufacturers of electronic goods, tyres and tubes..
DHL Express facilitates exports and imports for a wide variety of customers across industries such as automotive; engineering and manufacturing; pharmaceutical and life sciences; textile and garments; electronics and banking.
It is worth mentioning that DHL Express provides access to 659 cities and over 33,000 locations in the country. DHL Express India has approximately 60,000 customers including importers, exporters, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, wholesalers and small and medium sized businesses. With a robust network of over 340 fleet vehicles on road, 19 dedicated DHL network flights and 100 commercial flights per week, DHL customers in India have access to an international network of 220 countries and territories where DHL has a presence.
