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09/09/2011 DHL Delivers Style as Official Logistics Partner of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
For the 10th season, DHL is the official logistics sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, a partnership that showcases its international expertise to bring the latest fashion creations to the runway -- right on time.
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06/24/2011 DHL Receives First Gold LEED Green Building Certification in the U.S.
DHL, the world's leading logistics company, announces that their Miami DHL Global Forwarding building, owned by DCT Industrial (NYSE: DCT), a leading industrial real estate company, has received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Commercial Interiors Gold certification. Located in the City of Doral, in Miami-Dade County, this is the first DHL commercial LEED Gold certified building in the United States. The internationally recognized green building certification validates that the structure was designed and built using environmentally friendly features aimed at: improving performance in energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, stewardship of resources, and sensitivity to their impacts. The building has received certification in the Gold category based on the U.S. Green Building Council's Commercial Interiors v2009 point rating system.
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05/02/2011 DHL Goes Green at Nashville’s First LEED Certified Facility
DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, today announced that its DHL Express and DHL Global Forwarding operations in Nashville relocated to share a LEED certified, environmentally efficient facility at Ameriplex at Elm Hill. The move to the 31,000 square foot space, effective Monday, April 25, 2011, supports DHL’s GoGreen Program which includes a quantified target to improve its carbon efficiency by 2020.
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03/24/2011 DHL Launches “Logistics Without Borders” – The Premier End-to-End, Integrated Cross-Border Supply Chain Solution
DHL, the global market leader in the logistics industry, today launched Logistics Without Borders, an end-to-end supply chain solution that connects suppliers, carriers and end-users on both sides of the border. The solution leverages the expertise of DHL’s Global Forwarding and Supply Chain divisions in providing companies shipping across the U.S.-Mexico border one-stop access to the tools, expertise and services necessary to simplify the process and ensure shipments reach their destinations securely and on time.
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03/24/2011 DHL Global Forwarding Detroit Employee Receives Kraft G.E.M. Award
DHL, the world's leading logistics company, announces Kraft Foods has named one of its employees, Heather Daugherty, as one of its Going the Extra Mile (G.E.M.) award recipients. Heather, who is based out of the Port Huron office in Michigan, received this award on March 23, 2011 in recognition for Supply Chain Partnership Excellence in 2010. Kraft Foods chose her in particular for meeting the G.E.M. criteria of: accessibility, responsiveness, innovation and problem solving.
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03/03/2011 DHL, Lumeta, Inc. and Daniel’s Electric join forces to make a high school solar-powered
DHL, the world's leading logistics company, announces its Global Forwarding division, in conjunction with Lumeta, Inc. and Daniel’s Electric, have just equipped Banning High School in Banning, California with PowerPly™, building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) solar modules. DHL Global Forwarding handled the ocean freight, U.S. customs clearance and the staging delivery of the 220 solar panels (88kW) that shipped from Shanghai, China to the school site. Lumeta’s PowerPly modules were then mounted on the roof of the newly constructed 35,000 square foot two-story classroom building within a span of three days by Daniel’s Electric.
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02/24/2011 DHL Selected to Ship Equipment for Venezuela’s First Wind Farm
DHL, the world's leading logistics company, announces the Industrial Projects division within DHL Global Forwarding has been assigned a contract by PDVSA SERVICES B.V. (PSBV), the European procurement company for PDVSA, Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, to ship via sea freight, windmill equipment from Spain to Venezuela to build the country’s first wind farm.
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02/21/2011 DHL Joins U.S. EPA SmartWay Transport® Partnership
DHL, the world's leading logistics company, announces it has joined the SmartWay℠ Transport Partnership. The Partnership is an innovative collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the freight industry, designed to significantly reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution. With the SmartWay Transport Partnership, DHL Global Forwarding will now be able to calculate all of its subcontracted miles and performance efficiency, allowing us to measure the carbon foot-print associated with our ground freight activity. DHL Global Forwarding is the third business division of Deutsche Post DHL after Global Mail and Express that joins the EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership.
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01/19/2011 DHL Station Receives Accreditation as Qualified Envirotainer Provider (QEP)
DHL, the world's leading logistics company, announces their Brisbane, CA Station, near San Francisco has received Accreditation as a Qualified Envirotainer Provider (QEP). The company expects the San Juan station and several other North America stations to be added to their portfolio of QEP Accredited stations by the end of 2011. As the largest forwarder of Envirotainer containers - manufactured air cargo containers used for temperature sensitive shipments - DHL Global Forwarding is an industry leader in this specialized service area. The QEP Program, which involves training, documentation and an audit, endorses QEP Accredited DHL Global Forwarding station’s management of shipments made in Envirotainer containers
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