Deutsche Post DHL building “mega” parcel centre near Berlin
Deutsche Post DHL Group is constructing a new “mega” parcel centre in the town of Ludwigsfelde in Brandenburg, just outside Berlin.
The new centre, which will be built on a 165,000m2 site, will have the capacity to handle about 50,000 shipments an hour. It will complement the company’s two existing parcel centres in nearby Rüdersdorf and Börnicke.
“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. Another reason we have become the best parcel provider in the market is because we have the best network. The new parcel center that we are now setting up is in a region with particularly strong parcel growth, indeed it represents an essential component of our strategy.”
Deutsche Post DHL already has a sorting capacity of more than one million parcels per hour in its 34 parcel centres – and it expects average annual parcel growth of between 5% and 7% until 2020.
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 an 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.
