Over the past twelve years, Gebrüder Weiss has invested over 25 million euros in its logistics presence in Tbilisi. The latest investment totaled 11.5 million euros and saw its logistics terminal being expanded for the third time, gaining a further 13,000 m² of handling space. The company has thus responded to the increase in business between Europe and Central Asia. It has operated its own logistics center at Tbilisi International Airport since 2012, building it up to become a central hub for trade across the Caucasus region, and benefiting from free trade agreements with the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union, enabling transits through Georgia. In just five years, Gebrüder Weiss has handled almost half a million tons via Georgia. These include textiles, household goods, high-tech, and automotive goods travelling via truck, rail, sea or air, for which the logistics services provider has provided transport, customs clearance and warehouse logistics.
Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO at Gebrüder Weiss, said: “This expansion is our response to the rising demand for transport and logistics services in the region, which are growing largely due to the increase in trade between the European Union, Georgia, and its neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
Alexander Kharlamov, Country Manager for Georgia at Gebrüder Weiss, revealed: “This is the third time we have expanded the logistics center since it opened twelve years ago. With this move, the first expansion in 2019, and the location’s connection to the railway network the following year, we now have a total of 142,000 m² of warehousing, handling space, railway, parking and open area at Tbilisi, with over 177 staff providing a full range of logistics services to our customers in the region.”
Thomas Moser, Regional Manager Black Sea/CIS at Gebrüder Weiss, explained: “We are also using this expansion as an opportunity to further build out our transport services in the Caucasus region and to ramp up our collaboration with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries. This will benefit our international key account customers, too.”
