DHL Aviation has signed a new multi-year contract with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to manage cargo at its airport terminals in France.

This renewed partnership extends the 14-year relationship between the two companies in France. DHL signed its first freight handling contract with WFS in Paris in 2010.

The DHL CDG HUB is designed to help the company process parcels continuously and quickly, and is equipped with a "next-generation shipping sorter".

Today, the CDG HUB provides strategic air links with other DHL hubs in and outside Europe, such as Leipzig and Brussels airports, as well as Casablanca in Morocco.

In addition, WFS manages on-board freight services for the CDG HUB from Leipzig and Brussels, as well as freight reception points for DHL Aviation throughout France, including Orly, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Basel-Mulhouse and Nice.

Laurent Bernard, Vice President Cargo France at WFS, explains: "DHL is a major customer of WFS in Paris and throughout our network in France. We have a strong partnership, and this extension of our warehouse contract clearly shows that our service performance meets DHL's high standards.

"Maintaining this contract is very important for our business in France and helps demonstrate WFS's capabilities to DHL for broader partnership growth across our global network in the future."

Filippo Capogreco, Vice President of DHL Aviation, added: "We are proud to ensure the continuity of an operational and commercial partnership that has worked well for many years and with mutual satisfaction.

"We'd like to thank John Batten (CEO EMEAA at WFS) and his entire working group of professionals for the quality work done so far, and even more for the better work we'll do in the future."

Recent commercial developments for WFS include a new three-year contract with Air China Cargo in Los Angeles, and a contract with Finnair to handle cargo warehouses at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in France.

SATS, the parent company of WFS, recently confirmed its intention to acquire the Swedish companies Terminal & Transporttjänst i Sigtuna (TT) and APH Logistics through its wholly-owned subsidiary, WFS Sweden.

Rebecca Jeffrey