DHL-owned Blue Dart Express, the leading Indian air express operator, has inaugurated a new areaoffice with a service centre in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, the largest state in India, to strengthen its
network in the region.This is Blue Dart’s first owned facility in Jodhpur giving the company a direct presence inthe city where it has been active for the past 20 years. Blue Dart said this strategic decision isin line with its strong focus on Tier II and III towns, smaller Indian cities that are emerging asimportant nodes of production, consumption and distribution. This is the result of big ‘Tier I’Indian cities being saturated with residential and commercial investments resulting in a highcongestion.
The new service centre is strategically located only 4 km from the airport, 7 km from therailway station, and in close proximity to Jodhpur’s industrial area.
Serving the whole area of Jodhpur, the Blue Dart centre will provide logistics services tosectors including banking, hotels, cottage industry, handicrafts and textiles. Economic growth inthe region will be given an additional boost through opening new hospitals, educational institutesand an agriculture processing zone.
Sukhwinder Singh, Regional Head – North, Blue Dart Express Ltd, said: “Jodhpur is animportant city for us in the Western part of the country and we are more than happy to partner thecity in its growth through this launch. This also underlines the significance of our focus on reachexpansion in Tier II & III locations where the next level of growth is anticipated.”
“We are glad that the economic development of the city is on a fast track owing to which weforesee good volume of business. Going forward, we have plans to position Jodhpur as our base andexpand to other peripheral locations like Bornnada SEZ, Balotra, Barmer and Jaisalmer so that wecover the whole of Jodhpur – Jaisalmer belt,” he added.
