Less than a week after a large celebration in Bavaria’s Straubing, complete with VIP presences in the form of the region’s Minister President Markus Söder, Gebrüder Weiss also inaugurated its new logistics complex in Dunaharaszti, near Budapest. The extension cost in the region of 25 million euros and added 10,000 m² of office, handling, and high-bay warehousing to the existing logistics facility. Equipped with the latest automation (robots carry containers to picking workstations, for example), solar technology, and zero emission delivery using e-vehicles, the new facility offers additional storage capacity to its customers, and will become the Budapest center for Gebrüder Weiss’ Home Delivery services. Speaking at the opening on 25APR24, Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO of Gebrüder Weiss, detailed: “The expansion in Budapest offers room for further growth in the future. Increasing industrial production, especially in the automotive and electrical sectors, means that demand for transport and logistics services is expected to increase in the coming years. We opened our first Central and Eastern Europe branch in Hungary in 1989. Since then, the country has become an important hub for transporting goods between our core markets in the Black Sea region, the Balkans, the Adriatic and Western Europe. Today, our countrywide organization in Hungary is a pioneer in automation and sustainable transport.” To which Thomas Schauer, Regional Manager Central and Southeastern Europe at Gebrüder Weiss, added: “This saves time, space, and energy. We achieve an even higher level of efficiency in how trucks and containers are utilized. Cargometer cameras and 3D scanners measure the packaged items while they are still on the forklift truck. By ascertaining the size and weight of these items, we can make optimum use of the available space.”
Over in Straubing, where 150 industry and government representatives viewed the new 3,700 m² and 14 million euro forwarding location on the German Logstics Day (18APR24), Minister-President Dr. Markus Söder declared the company’s investment as: “excellent news at a time when the Federal Government is massively jeopardizing truck logistics in Germany. CO2 prices are up, tolls have doubled, e-mobility funding has been cut. This is damaging to such a systemically relevant industry, and once again fueling inflation. It can’t be overstated: we need forward-looking entrepreneurs and motivated employees more than ever.” And, according to Senger-Weiss, the country needs better e-infrastructure: “e-trucks cost three times as much as diesel-powered vehicles, which is why we need a clear roadmap in Germany on the future of e-truck subsidies.” Gebrüder Weiss will continue to expand, both in Germany and Hungary, with the next location being Györ in 2026.
