Geodis is expanding its capacity in Sweden
PRESS RELEASE
GEODIS is a leading supplier of supply chains and is expanding its contract logistics capabilities in Sweden with a 20,000 sq m warehouse near its existing facility in Arendal, near Gothenburg.
Just twelve months after establishing an operational footprint adjacent to the strategic Swedish port, GEODIS’ contract logistics business is expanding its capacity with a second warehouse adjacent to its existing 16,000 sq m facility. With all the advantages the location just 12 km west of central Gothenburg can offer, including access to the E6 and E20 motorways and the port itself, the development also has a railhead within the property, clearance heights of twelve meters and thirty-five loading docks. The second warehouse will be fully operational from March 2023.
Magnus Tornerhjelm, CEO of GEODIS in Scandinavia, presented the options for customers that the development brings, “Our role in serving our customers’ contract logistics requirements involves a variety of multimodal ways of product supply and distribution to final destinations. Our choice of location and warehouse facilities have affected by this dynamic and we are well placed to access diverse transport options.”
The GEODIS Arendal facility will feature cross-docking, unloading and loading activities backed by full contract logistics services for inventory control via WMS, repackaging and distribution throughout the Nordics. The two layers will work in harmony and access to the rail mode will be fully utilized when appropriate. The availability of additional storage capacity will also assist customers with GEODIS’ forwarding activities when their own shipyard resources are exhausted.
GEODIS’ expansion of the contract logistics business has been rapid. Thomas Kraus, GEODIS CEO and CEO in Northern, Eastern and Central Europe, commented “We are increasing our footprint in Sweden in line with customer demand and our strategy for future development. The customer response to our extensive services has been very positive over the last year, and synergies with end-to-end management of customers’ product supply chains offered by our international forwarding operations have been most beneficial to them.”
In Sweden, the GEODIS group operates from 8 locations (Helsingborg, Jönköping, Borås, Norrköping, Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmö) and has 350 employees.