Over the next five years, DHL Express expects to invest around €350 million in its operations in Italy to guarantee the highest level of service for customers domestically and worldwide through continuous innovation. As a result, Malpensa will acquire even greater strategic importance at the center of a European network of 85 hubs and gateways, alongside the main hubs at Leipzig, East Midlands and Brussels.
Less than a year after opening a new distribution center at Milan Malpensa intercontinental airport, DHL Express has unveiled plans to invest another €90 million on a new international hub spanning over 46,000 sqm. In February the company signed an agreement with SEA, the company that manages Milan airports, to build a cutting-edge logistics hub at Milan Malpensa, the busiest logistics airport in Italy. Construction will begin at the end of 2016 and be completed by mid-2018.
DHL main gateway
Situated within the airport’s new Cargo City, the hub will become DHL Express’ main gateway into the country for international goods. The area is of strategic importance for supplying services to northwest Italy, the most dynamic region of the Italian economy and the area with the strongest focus on international markets. A state-of-the-art sorting system will make the movement of goods even more efficient, tripling the company’s current capacity in Milan. Customers will have an extra hour to prepare deliveries, reducing delivery times as a result.
Milan Malpensa airport
transports 60% of Italian goods traffic and is the leading cargo airport in Italy. In 2015, it registered significantly higher growth rates than the average rates recorded by European airports in the same category, with a 9% increase in goods traffic on the previous year and cargo traffic volume of over 500,000 tons. It is the sixth largest cargo airport in Europe, after Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, London and Luxembourg.
200 cargo flights every week
Milan Malpensa currently operates over 200 cargo flights every week, flown by the leading airlines in the sector, for a total of 10,140 cargo flights in 2015 – an increase of 16% over the 2014 total. Within this figure, flights operated by express air couriers based at the airport are taking on ever-increasing importance: in 2015 these accounted for 33% of goods-only flights, an increase of 50% on the previous year, thanks largely to DHL Express. Last December, Malpensa hit an historic high of 472,557 tons processed in a single year (2015, excluding post and trucking), surpassing the 2007 figure.
DHL express network in Italy
is made up of 11 centers: two international hubs (Milan Malpensa and Bergamo Orio al Serio), two domestic hubs (Bologna and Carpiano), six gateways for internal connections (Ancona, Bologna, Rome Ciampino, Naples, Venice, Pisa) and one ground hub (Carpiano, Milan). The company’s Italian fleet is composed of 16 aircraft and 2,200 ground vehicles.
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