A personal story at Paris CDG !!!

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I sat to think for my blog, and looking back at nostalgia decided to tell a personal note ; after all my blog is my life’s history,. Well, so much travels , vacations, and historical bits of me and my life. One thing was missing was where my dear late wife Martine worked, And this is a bit of tribute to her dedication and a great company DHL Global Forwarding with a great wonderful group of people. The pictures are by me when picking her up at work, she love it!! me too !!!  Hope you enjoy the post as I.

A bit on the history of DHL !

DHL (Dalsey, Hillblom, Lynn) International GmbH is a parcel and courier company founded in the United States, When Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn founded DHL in 1969, they never imagined they would revolutionize the world of logistics and owned since 2002 by Deutsche Post. DHL Group is the world’s largest logistics company and operate in 220 countries and territories. The company claims to transport 1.614 billion parcels each year and has approximately 600,000 employees and managers, spread across the world. In 1998, Deutsche Post began to acquire shares of DHL. It took control of it in 2001 and bought the rest of the shares in December 2002. The company then absorbed DHL and it became its express division, while generalizing the use of the DHL brand to the other divisions of the group. Today, DHL Express shares its DHL brand with other business divisions like DHL Global Forwarding or DHL Supply Chain. It also acquires a pied-à-terre in the United States after the takeover of Airborne Express !. In December 2005, the logistics group Exel (Where my wife Martine started!! CDG Cargo area) passed into the fold of DHL. On March 2, 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the carrier announces that it has suspended deliveries to Russia and Belarus !!

The DHL Group was mainly built by successive acquisitions in different branches: Loomis and Airborne Express for the Express division; AEI, Danzas, and Exel for the Global Forwarding division, etc. The group has been able to establish itself by its size as the world number 1 in transport and has chosen to group all its activities under the single DHL brand. It now consists of five specialist divisions: DHL Express (100,000 employees) is the best known: it has historically specialized in the urgent transport of mail and parcels and includes DHL Aviation. DHL Global Mail (15,000 employees) is the international version of Deutsche Post, and therefore deals with the classic postal distribution of international mail and parcels; DHL Freight (10,000 employees) is the division specializing in land freight transport (road, rail, river) in Europe, DHL Global Forwarding at Zone Cargo 7, 27 Rue de la Belle Borne, 93290 Tremblay-en-France (30,000 employees) specializes in international freight forwarding (air, sea). DHL Supply Chain (130,000 employees) is the largest of the divisions, delivering and building bespoke, cross-divisional logistics solutions on a global scale.

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They have always revolutionized, reshaped and simplified the world of logistics. From imagining the international air express industry to becoming the world leader in logistics, they are thinkers, builders and pioneers who take on any challenge possible. And today they are aiming for the ultimate limit: delivering to the moon. DHL Global Forwarding (GF) has strengthened its presence at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport with the signing of a contract for this new 16,000-sq m airfreight warehouse and office building in 2014,The new facility enables DHL Global Forwarding to relocate all of its airfreight at CDG into one location, with direct access to the apron. This was after my dear late wife Martine left them on medical retirement.

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A bit of background, my wife had a car accident in the Florida Turnpike that caused the lost to her left eye, the Palmer Eye Institute could not save it, and continue working under the American system and initially in France. However, she was told here you can get an incapacity recognition and still continue with your salary. So , short of it ,she got it under Category II and was discharge from DHL Global Forwarding Roissy CDG  with full salary, 50% by the French social security or Cramif services and 50% from her disability insurance carrier at work, Mercer. So sitting at home making the same salary as working!! Vive la France !!! However, there is never nothing perfect, we missed 3 important people we love a lot, we call them the YMP as my boys from early age could not pronounce their paternal grandmother name of Gladys and call her Yayi, still called mom Martine and their paternal grandfather Elio was always call Pipo by me so they stuck with that, As said , life goes on but is not the same, something big is missing,,,,

The official DHL Global Forwarding : https://www.dhl.com/fr-en/home/global-forwarding.html

The City of Tremblay en France (93) on DHL Global Forwarding : https://www.tremblay-en-france.fr/decouvrir-tremblay-en-france/vie-economique/annuaire-des-entreprises-474/dhl-global-forwarding-france-sas-2974.html?

The official Aéroports de Paris CDG cargo hub: https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/professionals/cargo

There you go folks, again ,not adverstising but a sentimental thank you to a great DHL company that my dear late wife Martine worked ,enjoyed it, and was always thankful of, I was too after all they came thru like champs when it counted, Memories forever !!  Have a great day wherever you are in our world ; thanks for reading the post,

And remember, happy travels, good health and many cheers to all !!!

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Published by pedmar10

I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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