By Staff Reporter
Karachi: DHL, the world’s leading express and Logistics Company, won the 2007 edition of the “Great Package Race” competition dreamed up by Professor John Barthold at Georgia Tech, where the three main parcel shippers annually compete as to who can get packages the fastest to challenging locations all over the globe.
The packages were shipped on April 13 from Atlanta to five extremely difficult locations. While not all the packages have been delivered, Georgia Tech has already declared DHL the winner. As of April 20, DHL had delivered all of its packages.
The package had to be delivered to five different locations, each portray a challenge of their own. The first destination of the parcel was Apia, the only city on Upulu, one of the islands comprising the country of Samoa, in the western Pacific Ocean. Upulu has no street addresses. The second destination in-line was Florianopolis, an island off the coast of southern Brazil just above Uruguay; considered by the carriers to be a “remote area.” Following the list of destinations was Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, which is currently experiencing hyperinflation and political unrest. Next was Tikrit, which is birthplace of Saddam Hussein and a center of Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Last but not the least was Yangon, until recently, capital of Myanmar, one of the most isolated countries in the world. The city was formerly known as Rangoon, Burma.