Ekol Romania expands its operations in Bucharest
Ekol Logistics is growing in Romania by signing a 5 years lease contract for a new facility located on the outskirts of Bucharest (A1 Bucharest – Pitesti highway, km 23). Starting with December 2017, the company expands its operations and moves its offices into an A class brand new facility of 6,000 m² with offices and warehouses within CTPark Bucharest. Ekol operates now two warehouses in this logistics park, and one warehouse in Timisoara, covering a total of 14,000 m².
The new warehouse has 9 loading docks, 2 drive-in ramps, a capacity of 10,000 EUR-pallets as storage and a height of 12 meters. The warehouse was design to meet high security requirements in order to obtain TAPA Certification. With this new facility, Ekol Romania will provide logistics solutions for existing clients and also for the new ones, from many business lines as like automotive, white and brown goods, FMCG, Retail/E-commerce. “This investment will help us taking more business opportunities and also supporting more our customers by offering them tailored made solutions.” – said Alecsandru Mucenic, Country Manager Ekol Romania.
Ekol Romania was established at the end of 2011 and has 2 branches – Bucharest and Timisoara and a fleet of almost 230 eco-friendly trucks and almost 400 employees. Ekol Romania’s turnover for 2017 will reach EUR 15 million. In 2018, the company plans to develop the Ekol Group’s intermodal network by opening a RO-RO connection between Yalova Port, Istanbul and Constanta Port, in Romania. Ekol will also open operational offices in Constanta Port.
Ekol, an integrated logistics company founded in 1990, provides international freight, warehousing, domestic distribution, foreign trade, customs, and supply chain management services in 15 countries. The group is one of Europe’s major logistics providers, operating distribution centers with 1,000,000 m² of total indoor space in Turkey, Germany, Italy, Greece, France, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, Hungary, Spain, Poland, Czechia, Bulgaria, Iran and Slovenia in addition to allowing for Intermodal transportation with the utilization of its 6 Ro-Ro vessels, 48 block trains per week and 5,500 vehicles.