The new DHL Business Park close to Helsinki integrating express, freight and logistics activitiesis now fully operational, DHL said.
The new logistics centre on the west side of Helsinki-Vantaa airport combines the DHL Expressterminals and DHL Exel Supply Chain warehouses as well as the companies’ head offices, located in aseparate office building next to the production facilities. DHL’s subsidiary Kelpokuljetus, adomestic transport company, will move in during September. The area of the entire premises is agood 40,000m 2 and in total there are approximately 700 employees.
“Co-location in the new state-of-the-art premises with excellent transport connections to theport, the road network as well as to the airport enhances our competitive position and enables thesustainable growth of our business. At the same time we want to make the use of our services assimple and easy as possible for the customers”, says Timo Jaakkola, Managing Director of DHLExpress Finland.
DHL Express operates three daily inbound and outbound international air express flights atHelsinki-Vantaa airport: Cologne, Arlanda-Brussels and Tallinn. A special freight transport roadconnects the DHL airport ramp to the air terminal.
The road terminal serves as DHL Express Finland’s main gateway for transports to and fromEurope. In import and domestic traffic DHL Business Park is the base for parcel and palletdeliveries to the metropolitan area and for line hauls to other DHL terminals in Finland. Exportshipments are also processed there and – depending on the transport product chosen by the customer– either forwarded to the air terminal or loaded on lorries to start their journey to thedestination terminal abroad.
DHL Exel Supply Chain’s good 20,000m 2 logistics centre is a multi-customer facility offeringwarehousing and value-added services. “The location at the airport, under the same roof with DHLExpress terminals, is ideal especially for shipments requiring fast deliveries, such as spare partsand electronic components. Sharing DHL resources – premises, employees, equipment and transports –the supply chain costs can be remarkably reduced, whilst enhancing productivity and maintaininghigh quality of services,” says Krister Lång, Managing Director of DHL Exel Supply Chain inFinland.
DHL Global Forwarding, which provides global air and ocean freight forwarding services, isalso concentrating its Helsinki area operations to Helsinki-Vantaa airport. The company’s newhead office with some 170 employees will be located at Tullimiehentie, Vantaa, in early September.
