全球的快递运输服务提供商 DHL Express宣布已投资超过 7800 万美元，用于翻新和扩建其位于迈阿密国际机场的现有枢纽设施。这些改进进一步加强了公司的连接和服务能力，增加了往返欧洲、亚太地区、南美洲（包括智利、墨西哥和美国城市）的航班
随着假日季节的临近，这些投资恰逢其时，而且量显着增长，特别是来自国际 B2C 和 B2B 电子商务。DHL Express 预计在即将到来的假期旺季期间，整个美洲地区的出货量将继续保持两位数的增长（同比）。从过去两年和在线消费者购买激增的大流行趋势来看，美洲地区国家的 B2C 出货量在 2020 年（YoY）平均增长了 44%，在 2021 年（YTD 9 月 10 日）增长了 21%。 ）。
DHL 执行官 Mike Parra 表示：“我们的迈阿密枢纽一直是进入南美洲、中美洲和加勒比地区的重要门户，通过新的投资和航班，很高兴看到我们与世界其他地方的联系更加紧密。”快递美洲。“这是我们不断扩大和改善我们的基础设施、现代化和发展我们的机队以及建立新航线的一部分。总体结果是提高了灵活性、可靠性和服务，以满足我们客户不断增长的国际运输需求。”
该投资是该地区一项 3.6 亿美元的更大计划的一部分，该计划旨在到 2022 年底将 DHL Express Americas 网络的容量增加近 30%，其中包括用于全自动运输的设备。包裹分拣系统。新的自动化将设施每小时的分拣能力提高了近一倍。凭借近两倍的仓库空间——现在为 206,000 平方英尺——以及两倍于可运输包裹的装载位置，该空间完全适应旺季之前增加的体积。
出于对安全和安保的关注，DHL 还在枢纽安装了两台的自动能量色散 X 射线光谱 (EDS) 机器 (RTT?)，可提供高质量的 3D CT 图像并实现先进的自动化在级筛选的高速在线系统中检测。“DHL Express 的一个关键理念是将安全性融入我们的设施中，扩建的目的不仅是为我们的员工提供一个可以安全操作的环境，而且是他们可以茁壮成长的环境，”Parra 说。
DHL Express 现在平均每周在迈阿密枢纽运营 193 个航班（到达和离开），通过 B737F、B757F、B767F、B777F 和 A330F 飞机的组合。迈阿密国际机场继续为 DHL Express 提供满足其国际航运客户不断增长的需求所需的好处，包括内部报关行和在现场工作的美国海关和边境保护局人员，以促进更快的货物清关。
迈阿密戴德县市长丹妮拉·莱文·卡瓦 (Daniella Levine Cava) 表示：“祝贺 DHL 快递完成了其位于美洲门户的 MIA 枢纽的重大扩建。” “它的增长帮助我们的机场走上了货运量有史以来的一年，并为我们当地经济带来了数百个新工作岗位。”
“我们很自豪能够成为 DHL Express 全球网络中的枢纽之一，以及他们在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区业务的主要基地，”MIA 董事兼执行官 Ralph Cutié 说。“现在它在 MIA 的仓库容量增加了一倍，我们期待看到 DHL Express 在迈阿密戴德县拥有更强大的影响力。”
所有这些投资都为 Hub 开辟了新的就业机会。到今年年底，MIA Hub 的就业人数将同比增长 70% 至 731 名。
2021 年 9 月，DHL 快递在安大略省汉密尔顿市开设了一个新设施，在那里投资 1 亿加元建造新设施，其面积是原建筑的四倍，以满足运输量的显着增长。
DHL Express, the world’s leading provider of express shipping services, announced today that it has invested more than $78 million USD to renovate and expand its existing Hub facility at the Miami International Airport. The improvements further strengthen the company’s connections and service capabilities, with added flights to and from Europe, Asia Pacific, South America – including Chile, Mexico and cities in the U.S.
As the holiday season approaches, the investments come at an opportune time and on the heels of significant volume growth, specifically from international B2C and B2B e-commerce. DHL Express expects continued double digit shipment growth (YoY), throughout the Americas region during the upcoming peak holiday season. Looking at the last two years and trends as a result of the pandemic with the surge in online consumer purchasing, the Americas region countries experienced an average B2C shipment growth of 44% in 2020 (YoY), and 21% in 2021 (YTD Sept.).
“Our Miami Hub has always been a key gateway into South and Central America and the Caribbean, and with the new investments and flights, it’s fantastic to see us even more connected to the rest of the world,” said Mike Parra, CEO, DHL Express Americas . “This is all part of our continual drive to expand and improve our infrastructure, modernize and grow our air fleets and establish new routes. The overall results are improved flexibility, reliability and service for our customers’ ever-growing international shipping needs.”
The investment, which is part of a larger $360 million USD plan for the region to increase volume capacity in the DHL Express Americas network by nearly 30% by the end of 2022, includes a state-of-the-art equipment for a fully automated package sort system. The new automation increased the facility’s sorting capacity per hour by almost double. With nearly twofold warehouse space – now 206,000 sq. ft. -- and twice the load positions for conveyable packages, the space fully accommodates the increased volumes ahead of the peak season.
With its focus on safety and security, DHL also installed two state-of-the-art Automated Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) Machines (RTT?) at the Hub, which provides high quality 3D CT images and enables advanced automated explosives detection in a high speed in-line system at the first level of screening. “A key philosophy for DHL Express is to engineer safety into our facilities, and the expansion was designed to not only provide an environment where our employees can operate safely, but also where they can thrive,” said Parra.
DHL Express now operates an average of 193 weekly flights (arrivals and departures) at the Miami hub, through a combination of B737F, B757F, B767F, B777F, and A330F aircraft. Miami International Airport continues to offer DHL Express the benefits it needs to meet the growing demands of its international shipping customers, including in-house Customs brokers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel working on site to facilitate faster shipment clearance.
“Congratulations to DHL Express on completing this major expansion of its hub at MIA, the gateway to the Americas,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. “Its growth has helped to put our airport on track for its best year ever in cargo shipments, and is bringing an infusion of hundreds of new jobs into our local economy.”
“We are proud to be home to one of the largest hubs in DHL Express’s global network, and the primary base for their Latin America and Caribbean operations,” said Ralph Cutié, MIA Director and CEO. “Now that it has doubled its warehouse capacity at MIA, we look forward to seeing DHL Express have an even stronger presence in Miami-Dade County.”
All of these investments open up new job opportunities at the Hub. By the end of the year, employment at the MIA Hub will increase 70% (YoY) to 731 employees.
In September 2021, DHL Express launched a new facility in Hamilton, Ontario, where it invested $100 million CAD to build the new facility, four times the size of the original building, to meet significant increase in shipping volumes.
