Yusen Logistics grows in the Port of Duisburg to 70,000 m² hall area

New 26,000 m² hall – including a 6,000 m² warehouse for dangerous goods – makes Yusen Logistics the second-biggest customer of the duisport group

On March 18, 2014 Yusen Logistics (Deutschland) GmbH has implemented its fourth expansion phase in the Port of Duisburg. The 26,000m² logistics complex was built by the duisport group on one of the last available plots on the logport I site in nearly nine months. The globally active logistics service provider Yusen Logistics has now expanded its capacities at the location in the Rhuhr-area to around 70,000m² of storage area.

“The new logistics facility is already the fourth expansion by NYK / Yusen Logistics on logport I, and shows the strategic significance that the logistics service provider attaches to the Duisburg location,” says Erich Staake, Chief Executive Officer of Duisburger Hafen AG. The duisport group has invested around EUR 16 million in the new construction. There was a direct link to the adjacent container terminal.

“The expansion next to our existing logistics facilities is an important step for us, which makes a new range of logistics services possible for our customers in Germany and Europe,” says Seiji Yuzen, Managing Director of Yusen Logistics GmbH, highlighting the strategic significance of the new construction. Thus the new logistics centre contains a 6,000m² warehouse for dangerous goods.

With the new storage capacities Yusen Logistics has also made available a further 10,000m² of high bay racking space and 10,000m² of cross dock space, which particularly enables the automotive and supplier industry to consolidate components and just-in-time deliveries to production plants throughout Europe and overseas. Furthermore, central offices are integrated into the cross dock complex. Around 100 new jobs are being created by the new logistics centre – in addition to the approximately 300 people that Yusen Logistics employs on site to date. The main customers of Yusen in the Port of Duisburg include well-known manufacturers of consumer and production goods, global Japanese corporations and car manufacturers.

Yusen Logistics is a company of the stock-listed NYK Group, Japan’s biggest shipping company, generating turnover of about USD 20 billion (2012). With about 48,000 employees on more than 300 international locations the NYK Group ranks among the world’s elading logistics enterprises.

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