Parcel operator GLS has started work on a €5 million new ‘eco-depot’ near Munich to increase itscapacity for the region around the southern German metropolis.
The new 3,300 sqm facility at Geretsried, 40km south of Munich, will go into service nextFebruary with capacity to sort up to 30,000 parcels a day. It will replace a nearby smallersub-depot at Sauerlach where capacity is fully used and which cannot be extended.
The building will feature 10 loading doors for trucks and 73 loading doors for delivery vans,a modern parcel sorting system as well as environmentally-friendly equipment for heating, rainwaterusage and recyclable building materials.
Geretsried, the seventh GLS eco-depot, comprises a ‘logistics triangle’ for parcel deliveriesin the Greater Munich region together with the depots at Augsburg and Erding. There is space forfurther expansion in the future at the 28,000 sqm site.
“It’s very important for us to adapt our capacity continually to the needs of thissignificant economic area,” said Klaus Conrad, Managing Director GLS Germany. “We have found theright location for this at Geretsried.”
Geretsried‘s deputy mayor, Gerhard Meinl, symbolically broke ground with other officials andGLS managers at the site at a ceremony last Friday (July 29).
