German parcels carrier DPD announced today it will expand its year-old domestic express services tointernational destinations over the coming months following a successful of for the new product.
DPD will start to offer international express between Germany and the Benelux states in May,and also offer domestic express within the three countries. Further countries neighbouring Germanywill be added later in the year.
“The express services with delivery by 08:30, 10:00, 12:00 or 18:00 that we re-positioned in2007 have made a superb start,” commented CEO Arnold Schroven. “We have gained 15,000 new expresscustomers and volumes have increased by 60%,” he disclosed. Schroven said he expected double-digitgrowth rates for express shipments again this year.
DPD had achieved a very high delivery quality rate of 99.6% for express items, based on itshighly-efficient transportation network with direct traffic between nearly all German depots,Schroven emphasised. Quality would play an important role in the future, and new express serviceswould be intensively tested before being introduced, he added.
