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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.2 - Other postal and courier activities
130 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 November 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Courier company DHL has announced the construction of a new delivery centre on an industrial terrain in Zwolle. The facility is expected to be operational by spring 2019 and 130 people are to be employed there. The centre is equipped with, among other things, solar panels in order to be self-sufficient in terms of electricity and gas-free. This is the fifth new service centre the company has launched in the Netherlands since 2015. The cause of this rapid expansion is the fast growth of the international courier delivery service. Worldwide, DHL employs 360,000 people in 220 countries.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), DHL, Business expansion in Netherlands, factsheet number 95839, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95839.
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