DHL has enhanced its services within the South Asia/SAARC region with new air and ground expressproducts designed to support trade between the neighbouring countries.
The new products are the expansion of the Blue Dart ‘Road Express’ service to Bangladesh andthe introduction of the premium guaranteed money-back service ‘Express 10:30’ in Pakistan, SriLanka and Bangladesh. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) covers India,Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives.
Launched by Blue Dart last autumn as a domestic service within India, ‘Road Express’ is nowoffered exclusively on the India – Bangladesh trade lane and was used during the Cricket Tri –Series, where broadcasting equipment was transported to both Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Separately, DHL also recently launched ‘Express 10:30’ to Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladeshensuring shipment delivery to customers before 10:30 a.m.
These unique packages allow customers to choose the destination, mode of delivery anddelivery date with products like Express Worldwide DOC and Express Worldwide NDOC. These productsoffer better cost management and are beneficial to customers who are looking at expanding intonewer markets, DHL India said.
Malcolm Monteiro, Senior Vice President & Area Director – South Asia, DHL said: “As atrade facilitator and a leader in the logistics business, we believe in the business potentialwithin the SAARC region. With increasing logistics spends, it is only prudent that trade lanes befurther developed.”
“India, with an annual trade growth rate of nearly 22% in the SAARC region exceeds the worldgrowth rate which grew 18.6% during FY01-FY05. This underscores India’s potential to be asignificant player in the region”, he added.
During the last few years, DHL Express has made substantial investments of over $300 milliontowards the development and upgrading of its network infrastructure in India, including fivegateways in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata and over 150 retail outlets. In addition,a state-of-the-art Quality Control Centre and large shipment-processing areas aim at providingseamless express and logistics service solutions to Indian exporters.
