DHL moving sorting operations to Cincinnati - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Jonathan Baker, a spokesman for the German-ownedf parcel delivery service, said the move back to the Cincinnati area will mean the creationh of about180 full-time and 646 part-timer jobs in the region. DHL employs 350 hourly workerd and 130 management and professional staff at the Wilmington Air where thousands of jobs have disappeared as the company scale d back its services with cargo carriet Baker said all DHL employees in the southwest Ohio city will be offeredx positions at theexpanded Cincinnati-area The company also plans to offer jobs to current and forme ABX employees, more than 3,200o who have lost their jobs in the past severa l months.
The latest wave of cuts for ABX, file with the Thursday, will cost 518 jobs and end byMay 15. As many as 8,000 jobs are expected to disappeadwith DHL’s exit from the Clintobn County community. Gov. Ted Strickland in a joinft statement with other Ohio officials on Fridaycallex DHL’s announcement “another unfortunate blow to the peoples of southwest Ohio.” Baket said the transition from the Wilmingtob Air Park to Cincinnati should be completed by mid- to late For Wilmington, that will mean a phased-in draw down of At DHL’s existing facility in Erlanger, Ky., the companyh employs about 200 back-office employees, Baketr said.
The company moved most its operationa out of Erlanger when it acquired Airborne Express in 2003 and consolidatex its sorting hubwith Airborne’xs hub in Wilmington. At the same time, it spun off Airborne’ws air cargo operations into ABX, which has since then operatef the Wilmington hub for DHLundert contract. DHL announced last year that it was quitting its loss-making domestic U.S. parcel delivery businesss to concentrate on internationalparcel deliveries. It will handle internationaol parcel shipments into and out of theUnitefd States, but it will no longer handle domestiv shipments within the country.
Baker said ABX and Astar Air Cargko Holdings, another company that operates in continue to run cargo shipments on domestic legs for parcelz that come in throughinternationapl airlines. Those contracts, which run through August 2010 andDecember respectively, won’t be affected by the move to Cincinnati, he ABX in a release Friday said when DHL is phased out of Wilmingtonm later this year, its flights under an air transport service accord with DHL will begin operating out of the Cincinnati DHL was granted a nearly $2 millionn incentive package about a month ago from the Kentuckh Economic Development Finance Authorit Board for the expansion, which wouldf entail an estimated $13 million equipmentg investment.
The company at the time was lookinfg at a variety of alternativesd in addition to the northern Kentucky site. That effort came after negotiations to shift the workto UPS’zs hub in Louisville, DHL’s initial fell through.