About 8% of e-commerce (e-com) shipments in India are being handled by Blue Dart right now and DHL aims to increase the share to about 25% in the next five years, said Pablo Ciano, Global CEO, DHL E-commerce. Logistics firm Blue Dart, a part of the DHL group, specialises in fast ground deliveries of e-commerce items. Independent players including Blue Dart handle approximately 6 million e-commerce shipments daily within India, while in-house operators such as Amazon manage about 8 million shipments per day. Blue Dart has a total of eight planes — six B757, with each having an annual capacity of about 30,000 tonnes, and two B737, with each having an annual capacity of about 45,000 tonnes. Ciano said the capacity of the six B757 planes will be increased by about 50% within the next three to five years and brought to the level of B737 aircraft, as per a report.
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