Deutsche Post DHL Group is constructing a new mega parcel centre in the town of Ludwigsfelde in Brandenburg, just outside Berlin, as part of the company’s ongoing investment in its parcel network.
The sorting capacity of the new parcel centre will be about 50,000 shipments per hour, providing additional support for the two existing parcel centres in nearby Rüdersdorf and Börnicke. The size of the investment was not disclosed.
Up to 600 new jobs that are subject to wage agreements and social security contributions will be created after the new centre on the 165,000 sqm site goes into operation. The town of Ludwigsfelde and Deutsche Post DHL Group have already signed the relevant purchase agreement for the property.
“The parcel market is still growing rapidly due to the e-commerce boom, in particular,” said Jürgen Gerdes, Board Member for the Post – eCommerce – Parcel division at Deutsche Post DHL Group. “We are making our network even tighter, and continuously investing in the efficiency of our parcel infrastructure in order to carry on offering our customers the same high service quality in terms of speed and reliability in the future. The new parcel centre that we are now setting up is in a region with particularly strong parcel growth, indeed it represents an essential component of our strategy.”
The company already has a sorting capacity of more than 1 million parcels per hour in its 34 parcel centres – and Deutsche Post DHL Group expects average annual parcel growth of between five and seven per cent until 2020.
The property occupies about 68 hectares in the area known as “An der Eichspitze,” approximately 11 kilometres from the southern city limits of Berlin. The property is currently being developed to ensure the construction of the new parcel centre will start as planned in summer 2018.
In 2016, Deutsche Post DHL Group commissioned its largest parcel centre to date, in Obertshausen, which also has a sorting capacity of 50,000 shipments per hour. In the summer of 2017, construction work began on the similarly high-performance parcel centre in Bochum, which is scheduled to begin operations in 2019.
