Amoral Brit pimps Western Civ. for cash : Lone Star Times

Amoral Brit pimps Western Civ. for cash

by David Benzion · 02/29/2008 1:24 pm

OK… it’s 5:30 on a Friday afternoon and you’ve got less than 24 hours to get your firm’s uranium-enrichment gas centrifuges to an important client in Natanz–who do you turn to?

DHL.

British executive Robert Mills says his express delivery firm is enjoying explosive growth in Iran, despite tightening international sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear plans.

With a longstanding U.S. embargo barring two key rivals from entering the world’s fourth-largest crude producer, DHL Express claims a share of at least 60 percent of what Mills called one of the region’s fastest-growing markets for the sector.

“Business is good, business is improving year-on-year,” enthused the 40-year-old country manager of DHL, a unit of mail and logistics group Deutsche Post.

For Mills, financial and other punitive measures imposed by the United Nations and the United States since late 2006 over Tehran’s nuclear programme have not slowed business: “I can’t feel them, I can’t see them,” he said.For DHL’s Mills, the absence of U.S. competitors United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp “takes a lot of pressure off for the obvious reason”.

DHL’s strength in Iran is in contrast with the United States market, where the company is struggling to take on UPS and FedEx on their home turf and is losing money.

Vote with your wallet.

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8 Responses to “Amoral Brit pimps Western Civ. for cash”

Big45Iron on February 29th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

We could change things in a hurry by denying DHL access to US markets.
RickG on February 29th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Maybe Oscar Wyatt was his mentor.
Matt Bramanti on February 29th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Wait a minute. Are you telling me that a large German corporation is using modern commercial means in teaming up with a totalitarian government bent on killing lots of Jews?

I Don’t Believe It!
RickG on February 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

3.

Yeah, pretty far-fetched, eh?
houstondem on February 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

You forgot http://www.usps.com
Matt Bramanti on February 29th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

You forgot http://www.usps.com

Ah, yes, the good ol’ Post Office.

“When it absolutely, positively has to get there in an estimated average of 2-3 days.”
texpat on February 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

DHL has long owned the Middle Eastern courier market. In all my dealings with Arab governments, DHL was the only accepted means of delivering documents. It was the only service used by them in all the years I received documents from that area of the world. For instance, it was required by all agencies of the Algerian government that vendors use only DHL for document delivery.
dcgirl on February 29th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

I agree with #1. DHL should decide between the US or the Iranian market. Shouldn’t have it both ways.