"Indonesia is our main focus. Industrial experts have predicted Indonesia will grow at an average of 6.3 percent and our supply chain industry by two digits," DHL Supply Chain CEO for South Asian and Southeast Asia, Osca de Bok, said.
Until 2015, he said, DHL plans to increase its transportation fleet by more than one hundred percent from presently 370 vehicles.
"We will increase our workers by more than 70 percent from presently 2,250 and warehouses by up to 60 percent to increase the number of our networks from presently 164," he said.
DHL has also built a new warehouse on a 17,000 square meter plot of land in Cimanggis.
The facility is used for consolidating and keeping packages before being redistributed to 300 distribution networks and four companies in the area.
The warehouse has docks enough to accommodate 176 containers a day or 64,240 a year.
Its strategic location meanwhile will make it possible for quick deliveries to be done across Jakarta and provide easier access to the main point of exports activities, he said.
He said the new warehouse would complete other special warehouses in Cikarang, Marunda, Sunter, Sentul and Cililitan that
support customers in automotive, retail and high-tech customers.
"The warehouse in Cimanggis is the third built-to-suit
warehouse offering special features designed for customers operating in daily consumer goods industries," he said.
DHL Supply Chain Indonesia Managing Director Abdul Rahim Tahir meanwhile said DHL would continue to strengthen its customers foothold in Indonesia by continuously expanding its service to industries that have developed fast in the country such as in consumption, automotive, energy, retail and technology sectors.
"We have developed special expertise in the fields and have applied our best experience at local levels," he said.
Besides investing in operational areas, he said, DHL has also been committed to actively supporting the careers of its workers by providing training and development programs.
Right now as many as 40 employees are following a diploma program
at the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics in UK," he said.
He said since 2012 DHL has set up four operational simulation centers and trained more than 1,000 workers, adding workers at all levels may participate in talent management programs at locla, regional or global levels.
(H-YH/O001)
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