Blue Dart Express Limited is South Asia's leading integrated air express carrier and premium logistics-services provider. It offers secured and reliable delivery of consignments to over 56,400 locations in India. As a part of the Deutsche Post DHL Group, Company accesses the largest and most comprehensive express and logistics network worldwide through DHL, covering over 220 countries and territories and offers an entire spectrum of distribution services including air express, freight forwarding, supply chain solutions, customs clearance etc.
Presently, Blue Dart operates with its fleet of 6 Boeing 757-200 freighter aircraft, two Boeing 737 aircraft (to be inducted soon), offering a payload of 500+ tonnes per night, a flotilla of 12,000+ vehicles, 2,284 facilities and 549 e-vehicles across 56,400+ locations in India.
Started as a partnership firm in 1983 under the name Blue Dart Courier Service, the company was registered as a private limited company with the new name Blue Dart Express Pvt Ltd in 1990. The company was incorporated on April 05, 1991 and became a public limited company in 1994.
The company is the global service participant of Federal Express International, US, with exclusive rights for pick-up and delivery services in India. Federal Express, which has an extensive service network in around220 countries, is recognized all over the world for its innovation in the air-express business. The famous hub-and-spoke system of distribution, which is widely followed by almost every airline in the world today, was pioneered by Federal Express. Under the agreement between Blue Dart and Federal Express, all international shipments of Blue Dart are distributed through the Federal Express system and Federal Express's inbound shipments to India are delivered through Blue Dart's network.
The company launched IXF 2, a door-to-door service for heavy international cargo to the US. In the domestic sector, the company has a number of products which includes dome