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Europe: Logistics service provider Dachser to build €25M facility in Germany

Global logistics service provider Dachser is building a European Food Shipment Hub with a total surface of 70,000 sqm in Erlensee, Germany.

Costing €25 million (US$33.56 million), construction of the facility will begin in September 2014.

The company has been represented in Erlensee since 2012 by its Frankfurt-Ost logistics center, where groupage shipments are transshipped.

The new facility will take over from the facility located in Offenbach in 2015.

“We are pleased that a majority of the 160 employees working for us in Offenbach will follow us the 19 kilometers to Erlensee. In the medium term, we will also create 40 new jobs,” says branch manager Mathias Oetter.

The Offenbach Branch Office is the Dachser Food Logistics base for the Rhine-Main district and also serves as a central national food transshipment platform.

Domestic shipments travel through the hub to reach their goal within 24 hours.

The new building includes a double-spanned 8,500 sqm transfer hall, cooled to between +2 and +7 degrees Celsius.

In a second phase, the usable area can be expanded by another 3,000 sqm, where 87 trucks can be simultaneously loaded or unloaded.

In addition, a 2,500 sqm office building, a filling station, and a truck washing facility are being built.

By integrating truck parking spaces, public parking areas can be left free.

By using the additional bays and transfer areas being constructed as part of the new platform, some 26 countries can now be interconnected and transfer procedures and shipping times shortened.

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