New Zealand’s Auckland Airport is building a distribution center for Fonterra’s New Zealand consumer business (Fonterra Brands New Zealand; FBNZ).
FBNZ is scheduled to occupy the new premises under a long-term lease from March 2017.
The 11,000sqm facility – which will enable FBNZ to consolidate multiple existing warehouses into a multi-temperature space – will be built on Timberley Road as part of Auckland Airport’s industrial business park, The Landing.
Leon Clement, FBNZ’s MD, says the business is excited by the prospect of moving to the new facility at the airport as it will consolidate seven warehouses – four of its own and three third parties’ – into one, optimizing storage and reducing complexity in freight movements.
“Having a single dispatch point in Auckland for all our dairy products, except ice cream, will greatly improve the efficiency of our North Island supply chain operation,” he says.
“For example, instead of supplying a customer order from two or three distribution centers we will be able to supply it from one, reducing movements on busy roads and improving service levels for customers.”
