全球的快递服务提供商 DHL Express宣布，它将在 2020 年至 2022 年间投资超过 3.6亿美元，以在美洲地区的主要增长市场新建和扩展现有设施。该公司打算斥资数百万美元用于加强其美洲航空网络的措施，例如引入新的直飞航线。
这些投资是在 B2C 和 B2B 电子商务出货量显着增长之后进行的，美洲国家在 2021年季度的平均每天出货量比上一年增加了 33%。美洲地区国家包括美国、加拿大、墨西哥、南美洲和中美洲以及加勒比地区。对于美国，2021年季度的出货量比 2020 年季度增长了 41%。
“在数字化和全球贸易力量的推动下，全球化继续显示出其弹性，”DHL Express Americas 执行官 MikeParra说。“随着越来越多的消费者将他们的购物活动转移到网上，以及在全球市场上销售商品的企业急剧增加，我们需要继续对我们的网络基础设施进行关键投资，以满足国际电子商务和全球。”
许多基础设施投资将集中在公司的设施上，其中包括提货和交付业务的服务中心、管理国际货运清关的网关，以及作为往返世界各地的货运转运点的枢纽。目前正在建设中的佛罗里达州迈阿密扩建的的枢纽将成为Time Definite International () 全球第 6 大的 DHL Express枢纽。位于安大略省（加拿大）汉密尔顿的一个新的 244,000 平方英尺的自动化中心是 DHL在该地区的另一项重大投资。一旦Zui终确定，新的集线器将是当前集线器的四倍。
DHL Express还将在其整个区域网络中增加新的服务中心并升级现有设施，以支持英里和一英里的取货和交付业务，加强其他枢纽和网关，并扩大其在南美洲主要市场的零售足迹。
在墨西哥，大量投资将支持不断增长的限时国内 (TDD) 市场。为了支持英里和一英里的货件处理，2021年期间，零售柜台将安装 105个自助服务亭，以方便客户。墨西哥城、瓜达拉哈拉和蒙特雷的集线器和网关将升级为的自动化系统。并在全国重点市场拓展服务中心。
DHL Express, the world’s leading express service provider,announced today that it is investing more than $360 million USDbetween 2020 and 2022 to build new and expand existing facilitiesin key growth markets within the Americas region. Additionally, thecompany intends to spend millions on measures to bolster itsAmericas air network, such as introducing new, direct flightroutes.
The investments come on the heels of significant B2C and B2Be-commerce shipment growth, where the Americas countriesexperienced, on average, 33% more shipments per day in Q1 2021 ascompared to the previous year. The Americas region countriesinclude the United States, Canada, Mexico, South and CentralAmerica and the Caribbean. For the U.S shipment volumes were up 41%in Q1 2021 vs. Q1 2020.
“Globalization has continued to show its resilience, fueled bydigitalization and the power of global trade,” said Mike Parra,CEO, DHL Express Americas. “With an ever increasing number ofconsumers shifting their shopping activities online, and the sharprise in businesses selling their goods in the global marketplace,we need to continue the critical investments in our networkinfrastructure to meet the growth demands in internationale-commerce and global trade.”
Many of the infrastructure investments will focus on thecompany’s facilities, which include service centers for pickup anddelivery operations, gateways that manage the internationalclearance of shipments, and hubs which operate as shipment transferpoints to and from regions of the world. An expandedstate-of-the-art hub in Miami, Florida that is currently underconstruction will be the 6th-largest DHL Express hub globally byTime Definite International () volume. A new, 244,000 sq. ft.automated hub in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) is another major DHLinvestment in the region. Once finalized, the new hub will be fourtimes the size of the current one.