DHL to scale back Irish operation

DHL Ireland announced last week that it was seeking to make 320 of it's 1,000 strong Irish workforce redundant as the result of the economic downturn in the country. Included in the 320 are 90 redundancies at the company's state of the art facility which was opened in 2007 at St. Margaret's in north Co. Dublin, close to Dublin airport. Countrywide, 7 depots will be shut and the company's bases at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airport's will be restructured. It would appear the company have scaled back on aircraft capacity since the start of May. The nightly Shannon - East Midlands flight which had been operated by European Air Transport B757s for the past number of years is currently being operated by Blue Bird cargo B737 aircraft using the 'Eurotrans' AOC.