DHL Global Forwarding shaves up to 75% off transit times via Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge

• New road
  freight service will cut transit time between Hong Kong
  and the West Pearl River Delta by up to 75%, and reduce costs by up to 15%
• The 24/7 solution connects Hong Kong air and ocean hubs to Pearl
  River Delta manufacturing zones and the broader Belt and Road Network

HONG KONG, CHINA�- Media
OutReach - April 25, 2019
– DHL Global Forwarding, the leading international
provider of air, sea and road freight services, recently announced a road freight
service along the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB), featuring the world’s
longest undersea bridge tunnel system that connects the West Pearl River Delta manufacturing
zones in mainland China with Hong Kong’s core air and ocean freight hubs.

 

The 24/7 route links Zhuhai — Guangdong province’s
manufacturing hub —  with Hong Kong in
just two hours, compared with the previous eight-hour journey via Humen Bridge.
The new service operates from Hong Kong International Airport and its surrounding
ports to allow for more frequent flights and sailings, thereby supporting
global exports of technological equipment, garments and electronics components
from China to the rest of the world.

 

“The previous 200-kilometer route is now reduced to
a mere 80 kilometers, allowing for greater flexibility in pick-ups and more
stable transit times to support just-in-time manufacturing in the Delta,” said Steve Huang, CEO, DHL Global
Forwarding China. “Our customers will benefit from a more efficient, reliable and cost-saving route for
the import and export of goods, particularly for finished or semi-finished products
made out of materials sourced from all over the world.”

 

Offering full-truckload and less-than-truckload
shipments, the solution incorporates warehousing services to consolidate worldwide
import of raw materials to a single point, as well as distribute exports of
finished goods from single to multiple points. Doing so reduces the number of
individual transactions, customs fees, costs and overall delivery time of both
inbound and outbound cargos for Chinese manufacturers.

 

Open to the public since October 2018, the
55-kilometer HZMB undersea bridge tunnel system is the longest sea and fixed
crossing in the world. Previously, land transport over the Pearl River Delta was
only possible via a detour along the Humen Bridge, with water transportation
proving to be time-consuming and vulnerable to weather conditions.

 

Together with ongoing feeder connectivity, the DHL HZMB
Road Freight Solution will cater to the 11 industrial heavyweight cities along
the Greater Bay Area, home to over 70 million people and an economy worth over €1.57
trillion.[1]
The Zhuhai Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, one of the main areas serviced
by the route has been fostering tech growth, with high-tech manufacturing contributing
over €3.83 billion — nearly 28% — of the city of Zhuhai’s GDP in 2018.[2]

 

“This latest addition will be able to meet the economic
demands and adapt to commercial needs on both sides of the eastern and western
bank of the Pearl River,” said Huang. “Our new service, which ties directly
into our larger multimodal network tracing the Belt and Road, will help make
seamless freight connectivity between Asia and the rest of the world a
reality.  This would in turn bring a new
degree of flexibility to our customers’ manufacturing and export strategies
amidst even the most volatile market conditions.”

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logistics industry. Our DHL family of divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio
of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery,
e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air
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commitment to corporate responsibility and an unrivalled presence in developing
markets, DHL is decisively positioned as “The logistics company for the world”.

 

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