DHL Freight partners with Toyota Material Handling Group

The forwarder will transport Toyota Material Handling Group’s new line of racking systems from suppliers to the company’s customer sites across Europe.    DHL Freight and Toyota Material Handling group announced they signed a contract in which the forwarder will transport over 90,000 tons of freight for Toyota Material Handling Group starting this month.
   DHL will transport Toyota Material Handling Group’s new line of racking systems from suppliers to the company’s customer sites across Europe. Shipments will include conventional and high density pallet racking systems, as well as shelving and other non-palletized racking systems.
   Each shipment will be transported to new warehouses through various transport solutions including less-than-truckload, part-truckload or full-truckload cargo, depending on criteria such as production date at the supplier site, agreed delivery date, and the size of the goods, DHL said in a statement.
   Equipment delivery on the exact agreed day is essential because if the shipments arrive too early, it is possible that nobody will be at the warehouse to receive the equipment, while late shipments may delay the warehouse’s operations.
   In addition to this challenge, the shipments vary in size from small boxes to full-size 13-meter long racks, with material for one warehouse potentially coming from different locations throughout Europe, said DHL.