DHL: Delivering the World to You
Season 1
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Network: 5
Season aired: 2019-01-13
Overview
Going behind the scenes with the world's biggest delivery company to find out how they deliver an extraordinary range and quantity of packages all over the planet. With half a million employees, DHL makes on average five delivers every second.
Episodes · 4
Episode 1
A man in New Zealand ships a paper-making machine to remote Africa. Hundreds of urgent packages bypass Manhattan gridlock to make it to Wall Street every day. A man in Australia buys a T-shirt online from the UK, and receives it three days later.
Episode 2
A Venice courier is tasked with transporting a fragile glass vase, but his duties are disrupted by a bomb scare. A delivery team is tasked with transporting an entire orchestra's instruments from London's Barbican Theatre to the Paris Philharmonic.
Episode 3
The challenge of safely transporting heart valves and life-preserving seeds and how DHL configures its fleet of planes.
Episode 4
A look at how DHL's sorting offices work, and the challenges of delivering vodka to a country with strict alcohol import sanctions.
