DHL-Sinotrans, the Chinese express market leader, has introduced new products and services, andextended its network in moves to strengthen its market leadership.
The German-Chinese joint venture has officially launched DHL Value Heavyweight, an economicalshipping solution for heavier express freight shipments from China to Japan weighing more than 70kg. DHL Value Heavyweight users will enjoy the convenience of door-to-door shipping with thesimplicity of one single invoice, DHL said.
DHL-Sinotrans has also upgraded its e-commerce online tools for customers with a hi-techshipping tool DHL Connect and an integrated express information management solution – DHL XML-PI.With the launch of these new tools, DHL-Sinotrans now features an upgraded express informationmanagement solution of unparalleled sophistication, meeting diversified customers’ demands.
DHL XML-PI has integrated the strengths of DHL e-commerce tools, providing customers morechoices for value-added services. By integrating various kinds of information access devices suchas computer, telephone and mobile phone, the new express information management solution allowscustomers, according to their daily shipment volumes, to choose proper tools and stay on top oftheir shipments via computer, telephone or mobile phone anywhere, anytime, which will greatlysimplify the way customers manage their shipments, increase the efficiency of their shipmentdelivery and management.
“DHL understands that to be competitive in a rapidly changing market, our customers requirereal-time information. The upgrade of DHL’s express information management tools represents animportant milestone in the company’s technological development and applications,” said Wu Dongming,Managing Director of DHL-Sinotrans. “Building on our extensive service experience and strongtechnological edge, DHL has consistently committed itself to provide state-of-the-art informationprovision tools and allow customers access to real-time business information.”
Meanwhile, DHL-Sinotrans has opened a branch in the city of Zhenjiang – one of the citiesenjoying high economic growth in Eastern China’s Jiangsu province. The new branch, designed tobetter serve the growing customer demand in Zhenjiang for best-in-class express services, willfurther expand DHL-Sinotrans’ geographic footprint in Eastern China, and is another demonstrationof the company’s commitment to the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in facilitating the development oftrade and economy.
DHL-Sinotrans currently has footprint in 17 cities in East China, including Shanghai, Hefeiin Anhui province, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Yangzhou, Nantong, Kunshan, Changzhou and Zhangjiagang inJiangsu Province as well as Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Jiaxing, Jinhua, Wenzhou and Taizhou inZhejiang Provice.
Under its First in China strategy launched in April 2006, DHL-Sinotrans will increase thenumber of branches from 56 to 72 nationwide by the end of the year, boosting its role as a tradefacilitator and providing even more efficient support for the economic development among thedifferent regions in China.
