DHL Supply Chain reveals plans for new Heathrow hub

April 2, 2013 Christopher Walton


 

DHL Supply Chain is to spend £8.8m on a new shared user hub at Heathrow airport for its airline catering contracts. The new hub will provide procurement and sourcing services, menu development, food assembly and final mile delivery to aircraft, as well as an integrated specialist-recycling centre, for DHL’s £40m per annum airline catering contracts. Paul Richardson, MD of specialist services at DHL Supply Chain, said: “This investment builds on our successful flight assembly operation for British Airways, which sees […]




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