DHL Completes System-Wide Sort Automation.Final Step in Multiple Hub Enhancement Project Completed at Allentown Facility Customers to Experience Greater Reliability and Improved Service Performance PLANTATION, Fla. -- DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature , the world's leading global express delivery and logistics company, has completed the sort automation of its major ground hub in Allentown, Pa. With the completion of the automation at the Allentown facility, the entire $160 million DHL network integration and automation initiative, which included key air and ground hubs in Wilmington, Ohio For other places with the same name, see Wilmington (disambiguation). Wilmington is a city in Clinton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 11,921 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clinton County. , and Riverside, Calif., is now complete. The network system upgrades make DHL operations more efficient, increase letter-and-package processing capabilities and provide customers with increased track-and-trace package visibility. DHL projects to generate an approximate 13 percent improvement in network wide shipment capacity, in addition to improved operational efficiencies, as a result of the completion of the automation programs at all three hubs. New state-of-the-art equipment at the Allentown facility includes shoe-sort and tilt-tray systems, loaders, unloaders, singulators, dimensional and image scanners, scan tunnels and video coding Video coding is the field in electrical engineering and computer science that deals with finding efficient coding formats and algorithms for digital video. Video data usually not only contains visual information but also audio. . Key customer benefits of the automation effort in Allentown include greater letter-and-package visibility through the auto sort system's track-and-trace features as well as increased speed in the handling and processing of shipments. With the transition to auto sort functions in Allentown, letter-handling capabilities will improve by 67 percent and package throughput will increase by 85 percent. "Our customers are benefiting from the addition of the most technologically advanced software and sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. equipment in the industry," said John Cameron John Cameron may refer to:
The new Allentown hub features a base footprint of 290,000 square feet with an additional 200,000 square feet of mezzanine work space, and 12,000 square feet of office space. The automation of the new $120 million hub will particularly benefit customers in Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., eastern Pennsylvania and eastern New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The Allentown hub services 54 pick-up and delivery service depots throughout the region and connects with 18 other sort locations. In March 2007, automation programs were completed at DHL's $70 million West Coast facility in Riverside, serving the western U.S. as well as an expanded DHL footprint for one-day ground services across California and Arizona. DHL's principal air and ground hub in Wilmington fully completed its automation program in January 2007. About DHL At DHL, Customer Service is back in shipping. Our mission is to provide the most flexible, personable PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word is obsolete. and enjoyable experience in the shipping industry for our customers. DHL is the global market leader of the international express and logistics industry, specializing in providing innovative and customized solutions from a single source. DHL offers expertise in express, air and ocean freight, overland o·ver·land adj. Accomplished, traversing, or passing over the land instead of the ocean: an overland journey; an overland route. adv. transport, and contract logistic solutions as well as international mail services, combined with worldwide coverage and an in-depth understanding of local markets. DHL's international network links more than 225 countries and territories worldwide with over 300,000 employees dedicated to providing fast and reliable services that exceed customers' expectations. Founded in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in 1969, DHL is a Deutsche Post Deutsche Post AG (ISIN: DE0005552004, LSE: DPO) is a German post, logistics and courier headquartered in Bonn, previously the German state-owned mail monopoly. It has 520,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 60. World Net brand. For more information on DHL, please visit www.dhl.com |
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