08/02/2010 07:29 am

DHL named logistics partner for Australia's largest desalination plant

DHL Global Forwarding has been named the logistics partner for the Victoria Desalination Project. The company is responsible for delivering approximately 60,000 revenue tonnes of material and equipment to construct Australia's largest seawater desalination plant which will be built on the Bass Coast, near the town of Wonthaggi.

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07/22/2010 09:25 am

DHL trials world’s first in hybrid technology for HCVs in distribution

In partnership with manufacturer Volvo Trucks, DHL Supply Chain will trial the world’s first 18-tonne hybrid distribution truck that could achieve up to 15 per cent in fuel savings. Powered by an electric motor and a diesel engine, which can be used separately or together, the hybrid vehicle will allow for reduced fuel consumption, lower emissions and lower noise levels.

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07/20/2010 10:28 am

DHL delivers Mercedes-Benz Gullwing worldwide

In the patented "Customized Car Safety Box", the valuable cars are transported to sports car enthusiasts all over the world. DHL Global Forwarding, the world's leading provider of air and ocean freight services, was entrusted with the global distribution of the new Mercedes-Benz sports car, the AMG SLS Gullwing.

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04/22/2010 09:09 am

DHL expands secure road transportation

With immediate effect, DHL Freight is offering shippers of high-value high-tech products or other valuable goods a secure transportation solution for Europe-wide road transportation of freight. In future, the new DHL High Value service will expand the current high-value transportation service offerings by extending the required security standards to less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments.

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03/26/2010 08:29 am

DHL launches DHL MEDICAL EXPRESS

DHL, the world's leading express company, today launched DHL MEDICAL EXPRESS in Japan to provide express import and export transportation of time-sensitive medicines, clinical supplies and specimens during the clinical trial phase of new medicines. This is in response to the growing number of clinical trials taking place globally as Japanese pharmaceutical companies work to develop new medicines for overseas markets.

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03/16/2010 10:21 am

Support in cargo training

DHL in partnership with American Airlines Cargo is supporting pharmaceutical industry customers to prepare for the implementation of a new US regulation that foresees 100% piece level screening of cargo carried on passenger aircraft.

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01/04/2010 04:44 pm

DHL Transports Endangered Rhinoceros

DHL has helped transport four rhinoceros of a very rare subspecies on the brink of extinction from the Czech Republic to Kenya, where they will hopefully reproduce in the wild. There are only four other Northern White Rhinos in captivity, two more in the Czech Republic and two in San Diego. Other Northern White Rhinos are not known to be alive in the wild.

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06/24/2009 11:43 am

DHL delivers space-spectrometer to Russia

DHL Global Forward

ing, global market leader in the air and sea freight sector, has just shipped the Mössbauer-Spectrometer MIMOS-2 to the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Russia.

The spectrometer is scheduled to be launched in October from the Baikonur space center on board a Zenit rocket on a mission to Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, and from there will deliver analyses of the chemical and mineral composition of the soil of this Martian satellite. It has been commissioned by the University of Mainz and space technology company von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH.

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