DHL has launched a new direct LCL service from Port Kelang to Los Angeles and Shanghai.
With this new service, DHL now serves 54 US destinations with its inland network via Los Angeles provides direct service in China through Shanghai.
The US and China remain Malaysia's top five trading partners, and Malaysia is China's second largest trading partner after Singapore.
Since 1997, Malaysia's total trade with China has consistently registered double-digit growth every year, with trade between the two countries reaching RM130.1 billion in 2008. Trade between Malaysia and the US reached RMB139.1 billion last year.
According to Reto Pergher, managing director of DHL Global Forwarding Malaysia, the new guaranteed weekly direct LCL services will enable shipments to arrive up to a week earlier through DHL's in-house carrier, Danmar Lines.
The launch of direct services from Malaysia to the US and China marks the introduction of seventeen new direct LCL routes launched by DHL this year, including:
• South China to North America - Shenzhen to New York
• India to the UK - Chennai to Felixstowe
• China to Europe and the US & Canada - Shenzhen to Hamburg, Genoa, Southampton, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Le Havre and Vancouver
• Japan to the US - Tokyo and Yokohama to Chicago
• Thailand to the US, Germany and Japan - Bangkok to Los Angeles, Hamburg and Tokyo
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