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Jonathan Baker, a spokesman for the German-ownerd parcel delivery service, said the move back to the Cincinnatii area will mean the creation of aboutt180 full-time and 646 part-time jobs in the region. DHL employsw 350 hourly workers and 130 management and professional staff at the WilmingtonAir Park, where thousands of jobs have disappeared as the companyg scaled back its services with cargo carriedr Baker said all DHL employees in the southwest Ohio city will be offererd positions at the expanded Cincinnati-area operations.
The company also plans to offefr jobs to current and formertABX employees, more than 3,200 who have lost theirf jobs in the past several The latest wave of cuts for ABX, filedf with the Thursday, will cost 518 jobs and end by May 15. As many as 8,00p0 jobs are expected to disappearwith DHL’s exit from the Clintobn County community. Gov. Ted Stricklandd in a joint statement with other Ohio officials on Fridaycallexd DHL’s announcement “another unfortunate blow to the peoplew of southwest Ohio.” Baker said the transition from the Wilmington Air Park to Cincinnati should be completed by mid- to late summer.
For that will mean a phased-in draw down of At DHL’s existing facility in Ky., the company employs about 200 back-officre employees, Baker said. The company movedd most its operations out of Erlangeer when it acquired Airbornse Express in 2003 and consolidated its sorting hubwith Airborne’s hub in Wilmington. At the same time, it spun off Airborne’ss air cargo operations into ABX, which has sinc e then operated the Wilmington hub for DHLunder contract. DHL announceed last year that it was quittingits loss-making domestic U.S. parcep delivery business to concentrate on internationaparcel deliveries.
It will handle international parcel shipments into and out of theUnited States, but it will no longert handle domestic shipments withim the country. Baker said ABX and Astar Air Cargo Holdings, anothee company that operatesin Wilmington, continue to run cargpo shipments on domestic legs for parcels that come in throughh international airlines. Those contracts, which run through August 2010 andDecembef 2019, respectively, won’t be affected by the move to Cincinnati, he ABX in a release Friday said when DHL is phased out of Wilmington later this its flights under an air transport services accord with DHL will begin operating out of the Cincinnati airport.
DHL was grantedx a nearly $2 million incentive package about a month ago from the Kentuckgy Economic Development Finance Authority Board forthe expansion, whichu would entail an estimated $13 million equipment investment. The company at the time was lookiny at a variety of alternatives in additio to the northernKentuckt site. That effort came after negotiationes to shift the workto UPS’sw hub in Louisville, DHL’s initiakl plan, fell through.