Transco Expands Its Capacity for Frozen and Fresh Logistics

The logistics company Transco from Singen plans to build a temperature-controlled high-bay warehouse with 5,000 pallet spaces in the Lake Constance region. This will expand the capacities in frozen and fresh logistics.

(Singen) Transco is investing in frozen and fresh logistics and plans to launch a temperature-controlled high-bay warehouse with 5,000 pallet spaces in the Lake Constance region. The new warehouse will feature several temperature zones down to a maximum of minus 22 degrees Celsius. With this investment, the company is multiplying its storage and transshipment capacities in frozen and fresh logistics. As an established logistics and freight forwarding company in the Lake Constance region, Transco also has extensive experience in the transport of fruits and vegetables. In addition, the company has been active in temperature-controlled truck transport of medicines and pharmaceutical raw materials for nearly three decades with its business unit Transco Pharm, covering not only all of Europe but also the Asian part of Russia and the Central Asian states. Since 2017, Transco has also been involved in frozen logistics and operates a frozen warehouse at its location in Münsingen on the Swabian Jura.

Investment Amid the Corona Crisis

“The commissioning of the frozen warehouse in Münsingen was a successful start and served as another impetus for the strategy of capacity expansion in the Lake Constance region,” explains Transco CEO Christian Bücheler. “Frozen logistics is an additional part of our expansion strategy, which we are maintaining even in these generally economically strained times. With our warehouse, we are creating attractive offers for the regional food industry, while at the same time making our logistics company more resilient through diversification.” At the new location for frozen and fresh logistics, Transco will also offer contract logistics value-added services in addition to storage. The warehouse will be modularly designed so that it can be quickly expanded in response to increasing demand. If there is sufficient demand, it is possible to expand the storage location with a transshipment terminal for frozen and fresh products. Bücheler: “Our location at the tri-border area of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, along with our transport connections, provides ideal conditions to establish a goods hub for chilled food products here.” Like the transport sector, where Transco extensively relies on rail loading and the use of tractors with alternative drives, the business branch of frozen and fresh logistics is also embedded in the company’s sustainability strategy. In the new warehouse, Transco will exclusively use modern, energy-saving cooling technology and source a significant portion of its electricity from renewable energies.
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