Hermes Germany has officially opened its new €35 million hub in Hanover-Langenhagen, LowerSaxony, creating more than 150 full-time jobs on the site.
The new hub, located close to Hanover airport, has already been integrated into the Hermesnetwork since December 2010 serving all the company’s customers in northern Germany.
The facility covers an area of 80,000 sqm offering more than 110 gates for loading and unloadingtrucks and small vehicles. The interior is equipped with handling and sorting systems from Beumerin line with the highest technical standards that enable the company to process about 25,000shipments per hour. All transportation and logistics operations including the loading stands arecontrolled via an efficient IT management system in real time.
“We are very proud to inaugurate one of the top logistics locations in Europe. We can nowdeliver shipments even faster to private and business customers in northern Germany,” said HartmutIlek, Chairman and CEO of Hermes Logistics Group Germany in his opening speech. “The new facilityputs us in a position to grow successfully and, above all, sustainably in the future.”
Andreas Scheuer, state secretary in the transport ministry and the government’s logisticscoordinator, praised especially the ecological focus of the hub. “Hermes has already demonstratedsuccessfully for many years that transport and environment can be combined. With sustainablelocations, electrically powered delivery vehicles and a precise CO2 data capture, the companycontributes well to promoting environmental protection in traffic. We hope that many more companieswill follow this positive example.”
As one of the highlights of the opening, Hermes received the official silver certificate of theGerman Association for Sustainable Building (DNGB). The award honours outstanding building conceptswith specific ecological and social values. “Our ecological balance improved significantly throughthe integration of hub and branch at a centrally located and sustainably planned location,” Ilekadded. “This way, we not only save one property including sorting technology but also the journeysbetween the hub and the branch, and that directly benefits the environment.”
