Dachser builds second facility in the Greater Frankfurt region
The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, is investing USD 23 million until March 2012 in a new logistics center in Erlensee near Frankfurt, creating capacities for further sustained growth in the Rhine-Main region.
District Administrator Erich Pipa and mayor Stefan Erb joined Dachser managing director Michael Schilling and Frankfurt branch manager Friedrich Wilhelm Wasser for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Frankfurt Ost logistics centre. The approximately 505,000 sq ft site in Erlensee will accommodate a 72,000 sq ft cross dock that will allow for simultaneous loading and unloading of 68 trucks, as well as a two-storey office building with around 22,000 sq ft of usable floor space. Additional space is available for expansion of both buildings if necessary. Dachser also has secured an option on an adjacent site with an area of over two hectares.
“During the past five business years, the number of staff at the Dachser CargoCity Sued location has increased by more than 50%. The tonnage transported has almost doubled, and the number of shipments broke through the sound barrier of one million a year for the first time in 2010,” reports Friedrich Wilhelm Wasser, manager of the Frankfurt logistics center. “As a reliable and successful partner to the local economy, we are today laying the foundation stone for our further development in the Rhine-Main area.”
“Dachser is investing in the systematic expansion of its full-coverage, customer-oriented logistics network,” explains Michael Schilling, managing director European Network Management & Logistics Systems at Dachser. “The Frankfurt Ost logistics center will link the Rhine-Main region directly or via hubs with 38 national and 190 European destinations.”
From March 2012, around 100 new Dachser employees will take up their posts in Erlensee, including eight trainees aiming to qualify as specialists in forwarding and logistics services, office activities and warehousing operations. Including service providers and subcontractors, the new logistics centre will create around 300 jobs in the Greater Frankfurt region over the medium term.
In 2010, the internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, generated total revenue of USD 5.4 billion. 19,250 staff working in 310 locations worldwide handled 46.2 million shipments weighing a total of 35.5 million tons.
