Jobs may be lost at DHL due to the closure of a Nokia mobile phone production plant at Bochum innorth-west Germany.
The Finnish company announced yesterday it will shut down its Bochum factory due to highoperating costs and transfer production to Finland and lower-cost sites in Romania and Hungary.Some 2,300 employees will lose their jobs.
But a further 2,000 jobs at a range of Nokia suppliers and sub-contractors in the region arealso in danger, according to German media reports. The locally-based Westdeutsche AllgemeineZeitung reported that DHL is considering laying off staff as a result of the factory closure.
“When the Nokia factory closes, then it may be that jobs at DHL disappear as well,” a DHLspokesman was cited as saying. Some 200 DHL staff work directly with Nokia, and are responsible forshipping mobile phones to various destinations.
Nokia is an important international customer for DHL Express which handles transportation anddelivery of the high-value mobile phones in various markets around the world.
