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Blue Dart Express is an Indian logistics company that provides courier delivery services. [3] [4] [5] It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. [6]It has a subsidiary cargo airline, Blue Dart Aviation that operates in South Asian countries. [7]
The company has over 85 fulfillment centres, 29 automated sort centres, 160 hubs, 7,500+ partner centres, and 3,500+ direct delivery centres, as of 2021. [4] About two-thirds of its revenue comes from providing third-party logistics and delivery services to e-commerce companies.
It is a unique ID number or code assigned to a package or parcel. The tracking number is typically printed on the shipping label as a bar code that can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader or smartphone. In the United States, some of the carriers using tracking numbers include UPS, [1] FedEx, [2] and the United States Postal Service. [3]
The service became quickly popular: for UPS the number of packages tracked on the web increased from 600 a day in 1995 [9] to 3.3 million a day in 1999. [10] On-line package tracking became available for all major carrier companies, and was improved by the emergence of websites that offered consolidated tracking for different mail carriers. [11]
A new form of delivery is emerging on the horizon of the internet age: delivery by the crowd. In this concept, an individual not necessarily contracted by the vendor performs the delivery of goods to the destination. Sometimes, private courier companies will also deliver consumer goods on a regular basis for companies like E-commerce businesses.
In 2012, DTDC acquired a 52 percent stake in Eurostar Express of Eurostar Group in the UAE. [8] In April 2013, DTDC acquired 70% of Nikkos Logistics. [9]In June 2013, French courier company Geopost (owned by La Poste) acquired a 39% stake in DTDC from Reliance Capital's private equity arm, taking its overall ownership in DTDC to 42%.
The courier industry in United States is a $59 billion industry, with 90% of the business shared by DHL, FedEx, UPS and USA Couriers. On the other hand, regional and/or local courier and delivery services were highly diversified and tended to be smaller operations; the top 50 firms accounted for just a third of the sector's revenues.
Package delivery or parcel delivery is the delivery of shipping containers, parcels, or high-value mail as single shipments. The service is provided by most postal systems , express mail , private courier companies, and less-than-truckload shipping carriers. [ 1 ]