DHL Express Moves Its UK Headquarters to Colnbrook
The world’s leading logistics giant DHL Express is bidding a goodbye to its former headquarters at Orbital Park, Heathrow. The DHL’s latest Headquarters is moved to Poyle, Colnbrook in Berkshire, which is, fully equipped with modern and Eco-friendly systems to undertake day-to-day operations.
This moving means DHL Express can raise its package handing ability from 6,000 items per hour to 28,000 items per hour.
Being the location nearby Heathrow, DHL Express may connect the hub via conveyor belt for faster sorting of the deliveries.
Scheduled to be completely open just before the usual Christmas peak time, the 1,50,000 ft2 building on the Poyle Trading Estate, Hounslow, concluded last month, will boost volume and cut on sorting times.
The £32 million project is anticipated to upshot to increase for DHL Express customers, as the latest cross-dock facility created around the DHL parcel arrangement machinery speeds; allowing quick sorting time.
The facility will operate 24 x 7 and obscure the south of the United Kingdom. It will maintain 60 HGV loading bays while there will be a 585 car parking room on the site and also forecast 1,907 vehicle movements per day when the facility reaches its full strength.
The new movement, also club together DHL’s distribution center, head office and service center, all under one purpose build facility; and abstract some of the operations away from the clogged up Heathrow hub area.
While the new Headquarters is a division of a mammoth £156 million investment by DHL Express, it also comprises developments to DHL’s hubs at Manchester and East Midlands.
This new DHL Express facility will also open the doors for new jobs, with an estimate of 700 fresh openings for locals.
This new headquarters is also greener than its predecessor, thanks to photo-voltaic panels and air source heat pumps. In actual fact, the ratio of CO2 emission is anticipated to be 40% lesser than the standard building regulation requirement.