GO! Express & Logistics opens high-performance hub in Central Germany
GO! opens new hub in Niederaula German express company GO! Express & Logistics has opened a new EUR 7 million sorting centre in Niederaula, Central Germany. After eight months of construction, the new hub was put into operation in the night from 11 to 12 January 2008.
The hub is due to the positive development of parcel volumes with continuous double-digit growth rates, the company said. GO! decided to expand after its current hub in nearby Neuenstein reached its capacity limits of 10,000 parcels a day in a time-frame of 3 hours.
“With the new hub we have now created a central handling point that has enough capacity for the next 10-15 years due to the modular system in terms of area and sorting technique,” said GO! CEO Ralf-Hans Dierks. The ceremonial opening is planned for this spring.
The 30,000 sqm facility provides a 3,600 sqm handling terminal with a completely automatic sorting system. Capacity is designed for 6,000 parcels per hour in the beginning and can be expanded to 15,000 parcels.
The main installation of the central hub is a high-performance sorter that handles parcels in a sensitive way. All the information is transported via a central volume, weighing and scanning system to the packages. The whole facility can be expanded through additional sorters and has been built with space for future extension.
