DPD is expanding its nationwide network in Germany by investing €30 million in a large new parcel sorting centre in Nagold (south of Stuttgart) to increase regional capacity for more B2C volumes.
The new DPD location will cover an area of 57,000 sqm on the INGpark Nagold Gäu business park, which is operated by the municipality of Nagold together with six neighbouring towns. The sorting centre will employ a workforce of 300 when it goes into operation next year.
Thomas Ohnhaus, Regional Director South with DPD in Germany, stated: "Nagold will be the location of one of our most important hubs in southern Germany. The capacity of this new location means that we will be ideally prepared for the increasing parcel volumes which DPD is expecting, in particular in shipments to private consignees.”
DPD Germany's 77th location will supplement and support the company's neighbouring depots in Ludwigsburg, Villingen-Schwenningen and Wendlingen, with a special focus on serving the economic area to the south of Stuttgart. The catchment area of the Nagold depot will cover a radius of 50 km.
The operational start is planned for the autumn of 2016, with a daily sorting and handling volume of 37,000 parcels. DPD expects about 12,000 daily outbound parcels from the region, and about 25,000 daily inbound parcels for delivery in the region.
It will be possible to expand this capacity significantly in the future, and up to 300 employees will be in operation in Nagold, with about 125 hub staff and up to 200 delivery drivers. Some of the staff will be employees who are currently working for neighbouring DPD depots.
The new depot in Nagold is to become an especially energy-efficient location, with lighting energy for example being reduced to a minimum by the integration of strip lighting and LED technology. In addition, with its cutting-edge sorting technology DPD attaches great importance to low-consumption motors and drive systems. As a further advantage the new location will reduce driving distances, which in turn will cut the CO2 emissions generated by transport operations.
