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Jonathan Baker, a spokesman for the German-owned parcell delivery service, said the move back to the Cincinnati area will mean the creatiob of about180 full-time and 646 part-time jobs in the DHL employs 350 hourly workers and 130 management and professional staff at the Wilmington Air Park, where thousands of jobs have disappearedc as the company scaled back its services with cargop carrier Baker said all DHL employees in the southwestr Ohio city will be offered positionas at the expanded Cincinnati-area The company also plans to offer jobs to current and former ABX more than 3,200 who have lost their jobs in the past severall months.
The latest wave of cuts for ABX, filed with the will cost 518 jobs and end byMay 15. As many as 8,009 jobs are expected to disappearwith DHL’s exit from the Clinton Countty community. Gov. Ted Strickland in a joint statement with othe Ohio officials on Fridaycallef DHL’s announcement “another unfortunate blow to the people of southwest Ohio.” Baker said the transition from the Wilmingtoh Air Park to Cincinnat should be completed by mid- to late For Wilmington, that will mean a phased-ihn draw down of operations. At DHL’s existing facility in Erlanger, Ky.
, the companuy employs about 200 back-office employees, Baker The company moved most its operations out of Erlangeer when it acquired Airborne Express in 2003 and consolidated its sortinh hubwith Airborne’s hub in Wilmington. At the same it spun off Airborne’s air carglo operations into ABX, which has sincw then operated the Wilmingtomn hub for DHL under DHL announced last year that it was quittinygits loss-making domestic U.S. parcel delivery business to concentratr on internationalparcel deliveries.
It will handle international parcel shipments into and out of theUnitedf States, but it will no longer handled domestic shipments within the Baker said ABX and Astaf Air Cargo Holdings, another company that operatess in Wilmington, continue to run cargo shipments on domestifc legs for parcels that come in through internationakl airlines. Those contracts, which run through August 2010 andDecember 2019, respectively, won’y be affected by the move to he said.
ABX in a release Friday said when DHL is phasedf out of Wilmington later this its flights under an air transport services accord with DHL will begibn operating out of the Cincinnati DHL was granted anearlt $2 million incentive package about a month ago from the Kentuckyt Economic Development Finance Authority Board for the expansion, whicjh would entail an estimated $13 millionn equipment investment. The company at the time was looking at a variety of alternatives in addition to the northernKentucky site. That effort came aftet negotiations to shift the workto UPS’sd hub in Louisville, DHL’ s initial plan, fell through.