Global Forwarding drags DHL Q1 numbers down, but 'we have the remedy'
Weak demand across Europe road freight ate into DHL’s freight forwarding division profits over the ...
The toll from the new Brexit trading arrangements grew last night when DHL Express told customers it was “immediately” suspending some UK-EU services.
In an email seen by The Loadstar, the company said that with “immediate effect” it would “temporarily suspend” all B2C shipments requiring sanitary and phytosanitary control formalities.
The company explained it was seeing EU customs authorities hold a “high number of shipments” requiring such checks.
Shipments affected include animals and products of animal origin, plants and plant-based products and items ...
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Betty Bakker
January 29, 2021 at 3:53 pmAmazing that they say goods being shipped to business without control formalities aren’t affected in a way..
We are experiencing that all our B2B shipment from UK into ES have had incorrect customer import declarations filled by DHL ES; changing our freight terms and charging wrong duties and taxes etc etc. And none of our parcel have made it into DE so far since 7 January, they blame it on backlogs and weather. But also there they are changing our incoterms on the declarations. Not something to expect from a Global Carrier…