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Global Air Freight for all of your transportation needs
DHL Global Forwarding provides a worldwide network for all your air freight needs. With a wide range of time-defined and specialist services, supported by our preferred carriers, we can offer you the flexibility between standardised connections with fixed schedules or air charter.

As the market leader, we offer competitive pricing for all time and cost requirements. All end-to-end logistics processes are supported by leading-edge information management systems, providing the customer with complete shipment transparency.

A core element of our freight management service offering is the ability to move single or complex shipments by air, at any time and to any destination.

We are the world's leading provider of air freight services. Our operations are managed from over 150 countries around the world and provide services to and from all key markets.

We handle over nine million shipments annually totalling 4.1million tonnes. Managing the movement of a single shipment or a complex freight management programme, we provide a flexible approach and a personalised service to all customers.

A full range of time definite delivery and specialised services is also available to meet specific requirements.

Supported through our Preferred Carrier Program, we have airline partnership agreements with 30 major carriers, providing preferred access to competitive pricing and capacity. Alongside our external partnerships we have StarBroker, our own specialist in house carrier.

StarBroker provides DHL Global Forwarding with regional freight solutions that strengthen our capability to provide commercial uplift to the worlds leading and emerging markets of today and tomorrow.


DHL Global Forwarding's Air Freight capabilities include:

  • airport-to-airport
  • door-to-door
  • guaranteed capacity
  • consolidation
  • time-defined services
  • 24x7 time-critical
  • special handling (temperature-controlled, high-value, oversized)
  • restricted and dangerous goods
  • guaranteed capacity
  • customer-specific strategic capacity programs
  • web-based global shipment track and trace
  • customs clearance
  • document preparation

Industry-specific and specialist transport services are provided for the movement of chilled and frozen goods, hazardous chemicals and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products.
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