DB Schenker Logistics’ new Leipzig facility to handle BMW auto parts
DB Schenker Logistics is setting up a new logistics centre in Leipzig to supply components to automobile plants in China and South Africa. According to Dr Karl-Friedrich Rausch, member of DB Mobility Logistics‘ management board for Transportation & Logistics, this is one of the largest logistics projects the company has ever acquired. The facility in the north of Leipzig will have an area of approximately 63,000 m2 and is scheduled to go into operation by the middle of the year. Working with an integrated data communication network, the logistics centre will collect around 8,000 different components, which will then be packed and stowed in containers to match delivery requirements. The centee will also give the sheet metal parts protective treatment for ocean transport through different climate zones. Roughly fifty containers will leave the Leipzig facility every day, most of them to be carried by ship to Rosslyn in South Africa and to Shenyang in China, although some will be transported by rail. BMW is currently building a new production plant in Shenyang and DB Schenker is already involved in the supply chain for that location. DB Schenker also handles BMW contracts in other countries, such as spare parts supplies in South Africa. Quelle: eyefortransport |