BLUE DART LAUNCHES "ONLINE PICK UP"

Mumbai, October 15, 2001 :
Blue Dart Express Limited, India's leading integrated and logistics company has launched "Pickup Online", the online facility available on www.bluedart.com to all customers for scheduling their domestic and International shipments. With "Pickup Online" customers can schedule their pickups for multiple packages and services through a single request, upto 30 days in advance. This facility is available between 12:00 noon and 7:30 p.m., all days excluding Sundays.

Launching this service, Malcolm Monteiro, Senior Vice President - Sales & Systems, Blue Dart Express Limited said, "All pickups scheduled online seamlessly integrate into the pickup module in use by Customer Service. This will give Blue Dart customers the added flexibility of scheduling a pickup at their convenience, and will provide our customers the facility to plan effectively in advance and save them from last moment hassles".

For availing this service, customers will have to log on to www.bluedart.com "Schedule a pickup" would appear as one of the Registered user services. The pickup needs to be registered 2 hours prior to the scheduled pickup time. Initially, this service will be available from Mondays to Saturdays for pickups from Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata.

Blue Dart has recently been nominated in the Emerging Company Category in the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence. It is India's leading integrated air express and logistics company servicing over 11,940 locations in the domestic market. Blue Dart offers a comprehensive range of services and products for both international and domestic shippers. Blue Dart's continuous commitment towards understanding the needs and concerns of the customer has enabled it to provide unmatched standards of service quality with 99.98 percent reliability levels in the express industry. Blue Dart has a dominant market share and has expanded the market rapidly, which is reflected in its turnover growth over the last three years. Blue Dart is the largest Global Service Participant of FedEx, the world's largest air express transportation company.

For further information contact

marketing@bluedart.com
Dated : October 15, 2001