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DHL China to continue investment

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-08-06 14:21

Deutsche Post DHL CEO Frank Appel started his whirlwind visit in Beijing at 7:30 am on June 29 shortly after flying 10 hours from Germany. After a long day of meetings with government officials, partners and employees, the 48-year-old looked his interviewer in the eye and said: "We are still committed to Asia, particularly China."

Unlike any of his previous visits to China in the heydays of booming business, this visit was made amid a global economic downturn that has seriously pounded the logistics industry. The economic crisis has had a direct impact on the business of the world's largest logistics company, resulting in a 13 percent drop in revenue and a 42 percent reduction in underlying EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) in the year's first quarter.

But Appel said the company would continue to invest in China.

And he means it. DHL yesterday opened an eastern China domestic transportation hub at the Kangqiao Industrial Park in Shanghai. It also plans to open 10 more similar regional domestic transportation hubs in major Chinese cities by the end of this year...

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