Omniva laying the cornerstone for growth
Omniva held a ceremony yesterday (13 November) to lay the first cornerstone for its new logistics centre near Tallinn.
The ceremony was attended by: Urve Palo, Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology; Joona Saluveer, Chairman of the Management Board of Omniva; and Ansi Arumeel, Member of the Management Board of Omniva.
The new logistics centre is being built in the Rae rural municipality near Tallinn, at a location with convenient located for access to the city and the airport. The building will cover 13,000 square metres (m2) of a 70,000 (m2) plot, so there is room for future expansion.
In a statement sent to Post&Parcel today (14 November), Omniva said: “The construction of the new logistics centre entails the largest investment Omniva has ever made, its cost with the sorting technology amounting to €17.2m.
“A new world-class sorting line will be the core of the logistics centre, which will be finished in autumn 2018. On the current line, parcels are divided into containers of 33 different areas; the new line will divide parcels into 400 different containers. In addition to a more precise distribution, the new line will work three times as fast as the current one.”
According to Arumeel: “Looking back on the Christmas volumes of previous years and the estimated volumes of this year, it is obvious that building the new logistics centre is fully justified. Our current building at the edge of Lasnamäe district is simply too small for us.”
