Gebrüder Weiss opened a logistics terminal in the Kreckelmoos industrial estate in Reutte on March 22 in a location, specifically designed to meet the requirements of locally based businesses in Tyrol, Austria.
This will make the trips for the collection and delivery of import and export goods shorter and more flexible, according to the company, as they reach Reutte directly, are cross-decked and stored there, and delivered via short routes, including as express shipments.
“We reduce trips over the busy Fernpass road between Tyrol and Bavaria and provide relief for regional traffic because we bundle storage capacities scattered across the district close to the shippers and recipients of goods,” stated Günter Schmarl, branch manager Tyrol at Gebrüder Weiss.
The logistics firm spent approximately US$8.5 million on the new building, which was finished in less than a year.
The new site joins the established Gebrüder Weiss branches in Innsbruck, Wörgl, and Hall in Tyrol, as well as Memmingen, Waldkraiburg, Passau, and Nuremberg in Bavaria.
Schmarl further added, “Not only is this more efficient for everyone involved, but it is also in keeping with the sustainability and climate strategy of the state of Tyrol, which aims to have regional distribution centres for the collection and delivery of goods.”
In the medium term, 30 workers will be hired in Reutte, and apprentices will be trained.
Furthermore, the terminal gets the majority of its electricity from a 600-square-meter photovoltaic system placed on the hall’s top. This technology saves eleven tonnes of CO2 per year and produces pure energy for a heat exchanger that controls the distribution centre’s ambient temperature.
