DHL to expand India warehouses on e-commerce boom, new sales tax

Mumbai

INDIA'S bustling e-commerce transactions and a planned new national tax system that's expected to boost freight movement are prompting Deutsche Post DHL Group to expand warehouse capacity in one of the world's fastest growing major economies.

"We see business-to-consumer as the next big challenge, a big growth area and we really want to tap that through businesses such as modern retail," Vikas Anand, Mumbai-based managing director at DHL Supply Chain India Pvt, said in an interview on May 30.