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Always on the move

[The EU Commission has proposed a new set of rules for road transport. They concern road charging, market access and social conditions applicable to drivers. All of which are valued by DHL Freight.

10. October 2017 / Reading time: ~ 1 Min.
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Save from a downturn

[Oil prices were unable to maintain the high level they presented at the beginning of the year, of well above USD 50 per barrel. Accordingly, diesel prices are also most ten percent lower than those quoted during the winter.

3. October 2017 / Reading time: ~ 1 Min.
Business

Fitness for the advanced performer

[Jean-Claude van Damme has been performing his epic splits in martial arts movies countless times, but here you can see the same feat at an entirely different venue

26. September 2017 / Reading time: ~ 0 Min.
Business

Canals through the city

[DHL Freight Sweden is now transporting combined urban freight via waterways. This has been made possible by the company’s participation in a pilot project in the district of Lindholmen in Gothenburg.

24. September 2017 / Reading time: ~ 1 Min.
Business

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

[Medical technology is an industry where impeccable precision is a matter of life or death. When picking products in a medical technology warehouse in South Haven (MS), DHL Supply Chain is piloting the use of a collaborative autonomous robot solution.

22. September 2017 / Reading time: ~ 1 Min.
Trends

Sharing: a lesson for more than just kindergarten

["Sharing instead of owning" is not some flash-in-the-pan trend. As a new business model, it offers many opportunities, especially for logistics. DHL has just released a report on this evolving revolution underway.

31. August 2017 / Reading time: ~ 1 Min.
Trends

Room for Improvement

[Results of the Freight Connections survey on the use of digital freight exchanges.

29. August 2017 / Reading time: ~ 0 Min.
Sustainability

Zero emissions in practice

[Logistics with zero emissions is an ambitious goal. But how is that zero calculated? Standards are required. Homogeneous measurement methods across all modes of transport are important. If these are missing, progress can be hindered.

22. August 2017 / Reading time: ~ 1 Min.

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