In the Fischamend West business park, DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight have set up a state-of-the-art logistics facility for Austria and Eastern Europe. At this site the group joins its competences for air/sea freight and land transports. The investment at this site amounts to about EUR 20 million, the management disclosed.
The DHL Campus Vienna Airport features a total of four new buildings on a total surface of 60,000 m², being built within less than a year. DHL Global Forwarding operates a 5,500 m² cross dock warehouse. A 6,000 m² facility for the handling of general cargo and part loads was built for DHL Freight. Both buildings are certified according to the TAPA-A standard. In addition, two office buildings with 3,500m² each were built there.
“The new building will integrate the new Eastern Europe Gateway into our worldwide network,” said Dr. Thomas George, COO of DHL Global Forwarding Europe, in a brief speech at the opening ceremony. “Here we can even better consolidate the shipments of our customers in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe”, added Hermann Filz, CEO of Eastern Europe DHL Global Forwarding, in an interview with the LogEastics newspaper.
DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight have so far been based at three locations in the Greater Vienna area. This sometimes made the coordination of work processes more complicated, but that’s history now. Instead, the course has now been set for a closer integration of the two business units.
DHL Global Forwarding’s new Cross Dock warehouse is particularly impressive for its two 600 m² temperature-controlled sections for fresh produce in the temperature segment of 2-8 degrees Celsius and for articles requiring ambient temperature in the range of 15-25 degrees Celsius. Both areas also have two temperature-controlled truck docks for loading and unloading shipments. DHL Freight handles 1,600 shipments a day in its new hall.
Another approximately 400 m² “lock” at Vienna Airport serves as a collection point for incoming and outgoing air shipments shortly before departure or immediately after arrival of the regular services. Alarm-monitored trucks commute between the airport and the DHL Campus Vienna Airport, where currently just under 250 people are employed.
