DPD has this week launched operations at its new €11 million depot at Dinkelsbühl, southernGermany, creating 90 jobs at the site.
The parcels carrier employs a depot team of around 30, together with 65 delivery drivers, atthe Dinkelsbühl depot, which covers 18,000 sqm on a 23,100 sqm site in the Waldeck Business Park onthe edge of the Bavarian town.
The core of the new depot is the sorting hall in which, thanks to cutting-edge sortingequipment, up to 5,500 parcels an hour can be automatically directed towards their destination.Initially DPD expects a volume of more than 16,000 parcels a day.
The new facility, its 76th location in Germany, supplements the existing depots inNuremberg, Heilbronn and Neu-Ulm. The Dinkelsbühl depot will now serve an area stretching in thenorth to Rothenburg ob der Tauber and in the south to Aalen, while Ansbach and Gaildorf mark theeastern and western limits of the depot area.
Environmental considerations also played a major part in the planning of the new location,with solar power being used in the heating of the office building. In addition there will be areduction in CO2 emissions caused by transport operations, because the new facility will shortendistances to shippers and consignees.
“Over recent months our committed team has prepared the start of our new depot with thegreatest attention to detail”, said Milad Zadeh, who is in charge of the new depot. “We now lookforward to our daily work on behalf of shippers and consignees in the region around Dinkelsbühl,where we already feel very much at home.”
General contractor LIST BAU Nordhorn GmbH & Co. KG constructed the new logistics centrein only nine months and handed the building over to DPD in December.
