DPD Germany has officially inaugurated its new depot in Essen-Karnap, north-west Germany, which isplanned to go into operation on January 2, 2009.
The 5,000 sqm facility, on a 32,000 sqm site, will replace the smaller DPD depot in Essen bydoubling the sorting capacity to up to 32,000 parcels per day. With the new depot, the company aimsto strengthen its network in the region in order to keep up with the parcel volume which isexpected to grow continuously over the next few years, DPD said.
The company aims for annual volume growth of at least 3% at the new depot which has 10unloading bays and 16 loading bays. All 100 employees and 90 deliverers from the old depotwill move to the new facility.
“The new depot has more loading bays which allow faster and more efficient work”, explaineddepot manager Stefan Lotze. “With effect from January 2009 we will also be able to handle lateshipments and feed them into the DPD network. Our customers will benefit significantly from ourimproved services.”
