DHL Express in Malaysia’s rate increases 6.9 per cent effective Jan 1, 2019

KUCHING: DHL Express, the world’s leading international express services provider, today announced its annual price increase, effective January 1, 2019.

Compared to 2018, in Malaysia the average shipment price increase will be 6.9 per cent.

“DHL Express has been investing significantly in its international network to meet highest expectations and to offer an even better service to customers globally,” DHL Express Malaysia and Brunei’s country manager Christopher Ong said in a statement yesterday.

“Our aim is to deliver continuous improvement in quality to meet our customers’ needs even more. The annual price adjustment allows us to further strengthen our infrastructure, ensuring best-in- class customer solutions by using innovative technologies and individual delivery processes.

“Particularly in the last few weeks and months, we focused on investing in hub expansions and new gateways in many markets and thereby boosted our shipment processing capacities per hour and reduced our transit times.

“We are always working on upgrading our regional and intercontinental air fleets, we are opening new facilities with automated sorting technologies and introduce innovative ecommerce service solutions for our customer worldwide.

“At DHL Express, we will also carry on doing everything we can to assure the highest security and sustainability standards to comply with the requirements of our customers, partners and transport authorities.”