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10. November 2020NORDFROST GmbH & Co. KG celebrates a milestone in the company’s history with the opening of the new deep-freeze high-bay warehouse in Herne. The logistics service provider, headquartered in Schortens, Friesland, and with 40 logistics centers nationwide, now offers its customers from the food industry and retail an additional 42,000 pallet spaces in the Ruhr area.
(Schortens) – Today, the automatic high-bay warehouse of NORDFROST in Herne is being commissioned. The very demanding testing phase, which ends today, was led by a dedicated project team around IT manager Christian Lüerßen, who worked on-site with the Austrian plant manufacturer TGW, supported by branch manager Thorsten Schäckel and his team of 40.
Automatic order picking starting in 2021
The conventional storage area of the logistics center started operations on May 5, 2020. The commissioning of the automatic order picking is planned for early 2021. Herne will also take on the role of a central transport logistics hub in North Rhine-Westphalia, thus becoming a hub for the nationwide and Europe-wide consolidated freight network of NORDFROST.
Second automatic deep-freeze high-bay warehouse under construction
Dr. Falk Bartels and Britta Bartels, managing partners: “The opening of our first fully automated high-bay warehouse is a milestone in the history of NORDFROST! We are very pleased that this is happening today, on the birthday of our father and company founder Horst Bartels (06.11.1944 – 01.02.2020), who led the family business until his last days and who was very fond of the future-oriented location in Herne alongside our port logistics!” The second automatic deep-freeze high-bay warehouse of NORDFROST is currently being built at the container port of Wilhelmshaven – with a capacity of 40,000 pallet spaces, which will be completed by mid-next year.
About NORDFROST
NORDFROST, headquartered in Schortens near Wilhelmshaven, is Germany’s leading deep-freeze logistics provider and operates internationally. The family-owned company, established in 1975, generated a revenue of 430 million euros in 2019 and operates 40 deep-freeze storage locations in Germany with 3,000 employees, with a constantly growing capacity of currently around 850,000 pallet spaces, which is expected to reach around 900,000 spaces by the end of 2020 after the commissioning of the new building in Mücke. These form the basis of a nationwide consolidated freight network for the distribution of deep-frozen goods. NORDFROST manages 1,600 trucks daily. These are deployed throughout Germany and Europe, including the distribution of consolidated freight in all European markets where the logistics provider collaborates with strategic partners. The highest quality awareness, IT competence, and sustainability are hallmarks of NORDFROST. As part of supply chain management, customers from the entire food industry (food production, food retail, wholesale, import, and export) are offered individual, comprehensive solutions for storage, transport, trade, and port logistics. Currently, the focus of NORDFROST’s port logistics is on Wilhelmshaven. The NORDFROST seaport terminal is located directly in Germany’s only container deep-water port and offers tailored logistics concepts for both deep-frozen and fresh goods as well as for dry goods such as non-refrigerated food or promotional items up to heavy cargo. A similar offering is also to be established at the port site in Wesel. Operations will begin in spring 2021 with a dedicated inland vessel container handling.
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