DHL Express Germany integrates stations at new Nuremberg site

DHL Express Germany has started construction of a new operational site in Nuremberg, Bavaria,unifying two previously separated production sites under one roof, to increase capacity and speed

The new facility, to be built on the site of a former power plant at Erlangen-Frauenaurach, willcost €32.5 million in total and is due to go into operation in summer 2015 with some 200 staff. Theinvestor is Hans-Georg Geis, owner of the German freight forwarding company Geis Group.

Covering an area of 36,000 sqm, the new facility will combine the service station in Nuremberg,which is linked to the national road and international air network of DHL Express, and the gatewayfor day-definite express shipments that are transported via the European road network. The gatewayis currently located in Fürth, close to Nuremberg.

The current production area will be expanded by around 50%, with DHL Express taking into accountexpected volume growth in the region in the coming years. For the day-definite express shipments inthe European road network alone, it expects volume growth of over 10%.

“We are overcoming the current separation of the two stations with the new building and willmake processes more efficient through the use of a single, fully automated sorting system,” saidWolfgang Albeck, managing director of DHL Express Germany.

Thanks to the state-of-the-art facility, DHL Express will be able to process and sortsimultaneously both national and international, time-definite express shipments as well as thesame-day shipments within the European road network. The system is designed to handle around 6,000shipments per hour and is also used at the new location of DHL Express in Stuttgart.

In addition, the Nuremberg facility will feature direct loading and unloading gates for a totalof 96 delivery vehicles in local traffic, with the capacity to add more gates in future.

Separately, DHL Express Germany also recently increased capacity at its Mannheim facility withthe launch of a €4.5 million fully-automated sorting system that can sort up to 12,000 parcelsdaily.