DHL eCommerce announced recently that it had invested $57.5 million in a new location near the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
The company, a division of DHL Group, said it had relocated from its previous location in Grand Prairie, Texas to the new 220,000 square-foot distribution center. DHL eCommerce said it invested money into the land, construction, sustainability features and new automation at the facility. The move reinforces the company’s commitment to efficiency, sustainability and automation, officials said, with double the parcel and package throughput per hour.
“We are thrilled to announce the relocation of DHL eCommerce’s distribution center to a larger facility in thriving Irving, TX, with easy access to the international airport for air and ground transport,” Lee Spratt, CEO of DHL eCommerce, Americas, said. “This relocation demonstrates our ongoing commitment to innovation and increasing our capacity to process our customers’ ever-growing shipping needs.”
The facility will operate on three shifts with an estimated 150 employees and will proves B2C e-commerce domestic inbound and outbound parcels and packages. The facility will also feature a state-of-the-art single-level next-generation loop sorter, which will enable it to process 24,000 parcels per hour through eight induction lines. The loop sorter, the company said, has an accuracy rate between 97 and 99 percent.
The center also features 46 loading dock doors, two drive-in ramps, 11 offices, conference and huddle rooms, 12 cubicles, a kitchenette, and a multipurpose room for nursing mothers and other uses.