DHL launches new direct LCL services

Direct services shorten transit time:

DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, announced the launch of a direct Less than Container Load(i) (LCL) services from Colombo and Singapore to Koper, Slovenia, enhancing its connectivity between the South Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe.

The entire Port of Koper region is a Free Trade Zone and is known to be an environmentally conscious port and its operations are certified by the highest quality standards: ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.

Slovenia’s economy is highly dependent on international trade – according to provisional data for the first five months of 2010, Slovenia’s exports amounted to €7,187.4 million, while imports amounted to €7,670.3 million, an increase of 10.5 percent and 11 percent to the same period in 2009 respectively(ii).

Among Sri Lanka’s top exports to Slovenia last year were apparel and clothing accessories, fruits and nuts, games, rubber, sports equipment, toys and vegetable textile fibres (paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn).

Top imports included boilers, electrical machinery and equipment and mechanical appliances.

The value of Sri Lanka’s imports and exports to Slovenia during the first eleven months of 2009 amounted to over Rs 700 million and Rs 130 million respectively; while the overall imports and exports in the preceding year totalled Rs 521 million and Rs 153 million respectively.

“The direct LCL service connecting Colombo and Koper will enable our customers in Sri Lanka to access exciting new markets in Europe while leveraging DHL’s global LCL network as they expand their reach into foreign markets,” DHL Global Forwarding Lanka, Country Manager, Najeeb-ur Rahman said.