TNT Express Germany has officially inaugurated its new €3.7 million logistics centre at Rostockairport in northern Germany after it started operations in March this year.
The company expects to increase the number of employees at the new facility to 40 by 2010.Along with about 60 external workers employed with partners and service providers, TNT Express thussafeguards around 100 jobs in the region.
After laying the foundation stone in October last year, the state-of-the-art logistics centrewas constructed within five months on a 12,000 sqm area. The operative core of the new building isthe 1,100 sqm transfer station which is nearly the double size of the previous one. The latestsorting facility enables a further reduction in transit times for customers’ transport shipments.The office space is also considerably larger than at the previous facility with about 900sqminstead of 200 sqm before, TNT Express Germany said.
The new facility at the Airpark Laage Süd near Rostock replaces the previous TNT depot,located about 17 km away in Güstrow, which had been in operation since 1996.
