DB Schenker Logistics has been commissioned by BMW to more than double its capacity in the new logistics centre in Leipzig, Germany.For more than a year, the logistics centre has been supplying components to car assembly plants in China and South Africa. To enable it to cope with the extended order volume from the BMW plants, Schenker Deutschland will have additional logistics warehouses erected at its site north of Leipzig and hire an additional 700 employees.
Dr. Karl-Friedrich Rausch, Member of the DB Mobility Logistics Board responsible for Transportation and Logistics, said: “BMW has once again expressed its confidence in us. To this end, we will create new jobs in the Free State of Saxony and Greater Leipzig.” The contract to erect the Leipzig logistics centre in December 2010 was one of the largest logistics projects undertaken by DB Schenker Logistics to date. Since summer 2011, around 8,000 different automotive components for BMW models have been received, packed and stowed in containers in the 63,000 sq. metre facility.
As many as 50 containers leave the centre daily to be shipped by ocean transport to Rosslyn in South Africa and by rail to Shenyang in China. By summer 2013, this number is expected to double.
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