Blue Dart Express is an Indian Blue Dart Courier Service Number 7890941713

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company that provides

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delivery services. It is headquartered in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...

, Maharashtra. It has a subsidiary cargo airline,

Blue Dart Aviation Blue Dart Aviation is a cargo airline based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It operates with its main base as Chennai International Airport. It serves 7 Indian metro cities. German courier company Deutsche Post owns a 70% stake in the airline th ...

that operates in South Asian countries. In 2002, Blue Dart had a

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with

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and on 8 November 2004, DHL Express invested €120 million in it, and since then has been a major

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in the company.

History

Blue Dart was founded by

Tushar Jani Tushar Kumudrai Jani or Tushar Jani is a business entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and the founder of Blue Dart Express Ltd and Blue Dart Aviation , Swift Freight and Express Industry Council of India ''(a courier and express cargo busine ...

( chairman) and his friends Khushroo Dubash and Clyde Cooper in November 1983. In its early years, Blue Dart had a business agreement with Gelco Express International, UK, for the operations of international air package express services from India. In 2010–11, it introduced ′ cash on delivery (COD)′ to its customers as an additional payment option for its courier services.

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