Gebrüder Weiss starts weekly groupage freight service to Georgia

Gebrüder Weiss expands its portfolio in Central Asia by scheduled groupage freight service with weekly departures from Passau to Tbilisi
 
The transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss offers a new, direct groupage freight connection from Passau to the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The regular transit time is eight days. Departure is weekly on Thursday and, depending on the shipment volume, there will be an additional departure on Tuesday. “Weekly groupage transport in this form is unique in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland,” says Thomas Moser, Regional Manager Southeast/CIS at Gebrüder Weiss. “In this way, we are able to offer our customers a direct overland connection to the emerging markets in Central and Eastern Asia.”
 
With the integration of the location in Passau into the “GW pro.line” groupage transport system, all customers of Gebrüder Weiss can benefit from this new connection: goods from all areas of the GW network with destination Georgia come together in Passau at fixed transit times. The deliveries are then further distributed from the hub in Tbilisi to all destinations within Georgia or to the neighboring Caucasus states of Azerbaijan and Armenia. In the second half of 2012, more than 300 tonnes of groupage freight were transported to the Black Sea.
 
GW is currently building a modern logistics centre in Tbilisi with about 10,000 m² of transshipment and logistics space. The opening is scheduled for mid-2013. The facilities shall serve as a central hub for the Caucasus region. According to the company the 95,000 m² plot is easily accessible from the airport and the motorway and can also be connected to the Georgian railway network, which the government is currently expanding nationwide. GW gained a foothold in the Caucasus region in March 2012 with the establishment of a joint venture with Tegeta Motors and the “Gebrüder Weiss LLC” association.

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