DHL launches its ‘most advanced’ operational hub in Querétaro

DHL Express Mexico has inaugurated its Querétaro Air Hub facilities, tripling the company’s operational capableness astatine Querétaro International Airport (AIQ) successful Mexico’s Bajío region. 

The enlargement task outgo much than US $120 cardinal and included infrastructure enlargement and exertion upgrades, establishing it arsenic the firm’s astir precocious hub successful Latin America. 

The US $120-million enlargement makes DHL’s Querétaro hub its astir precocious successful Latin America. (Gobierno de Querétaro/X)

“This hub connects 100,000 packages each nighttime and tin link up to 250,000 packages,” the company’s CEO Antonio Arranz Lara said during the motorboat connected Thursday. “It’s precise important to america due to the fact that it’s the aboriginal of DHL Express Mexico,” 

Querétaro Governor Mauricio Kuri González attended the lawsuit alongside Arranz and DHL Express’s planetary CEO John Pearson. Kuri symbolically turned connected the hub’s mechanical strategy to inaugurate the facilities.

The upgraded installation has a processing capableness of 41,000 packages per hour. The hub covers implicit 28,300 quadrate meters, including 15,000 quadrate meters of warehouse space, 13,300 quadrate meters of patio space, 1,200 quadrate meters of bureau space, 30 airside curtains and 19 landside curtains.

As portion of DHL’s “Go Green” strategical line, the task was developed with sustainability successful mind. It includes 610 star panels and a rainwater harvesting system. It was built utilizing section materials and recycled content.

“This not lone reaffirms DHL and TL Kapital’s committedness to the situation but besides aligns with the airport’s imaginativeness of reducing c emissions successful the abbreviated term,” Terminal Logistics Kapital’s wide director, Luis Felipe Rivas Villanueva, said.  

At present, 12 home flights run regular from DHL Express’s Querétaro Air Hub to the cities of Mérida, Cancún, Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Mazatlán, Cabo San Lucas, Torreón, Hermosillo, Chihuahua, Villahermosa, Culiacán and Tijuana, with a full of 33 interconnected cities. There is besides 1 formation a time to the DHL Express hub successful Cincinnati successful the United States. 

DHL Express Mexico archetypal commenced operations astatine its AIQ strategical determination successful 2010. 

“Since then, we stake connected a authorities that present plays a cardinal relation successful our operations network, not lone astatine the nationalist level but besides internationally,” Arranz said. “This concern is simply a objection of the committedness and assurance we person successful the authorities and successful Mexico’s imaginable for the planetary logistics sector.”

DHL Express’s CEO John Pearson stressed the value of Querétaro arsenic a commercialized hub and a important portion for manufacturing concern and logistics connections.

New aerial and onshore routes volition beryllium added present that the enlargement is complete, arsenic DHL Express aims to heighten connectivity betwixt the Bajío portion successful cardinal Mexico with the country’s northbound and south. 

With reports from Mexico Industry and El Economista