DHL Express is ditching it’s relationship with Wilmington, Ohio bsed ABX Air due to the restructuring of its air transport operations. UPS is only providing the air transport portion for DHL, everything else appears that it’s going to remain the same.

You’ll still see the yellow and red striped trucks driving around, this only affects the DHL packages from airport to airport and not DHL freight only packages.

This is surprising news because ABX had just announced a contract renewal was going to be approved later this year. I bet this is really a surprise to the 7,000 people in the Wilmington, Ohio hub and sorting facility, especially the 1500 that are slated for immediate termination.
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