The world transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has extended its logistics terminal in Tbilisi, Georgia, by some 13,000 sq m (almost about 140,000 square feet) in a pass that will extra broaden its capacities in the Caucasus space. “This expansion is our response to the rising ask for transport and logistics products and companies in the gap, that are growing largely due to the the extend in commerce between the European Union, Georgia, and its neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan,” explains Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO at Gebrüder Weiss.
“Right here is the third time we have got expanded the logistics centre because it opened twelve years ago. With this pass, the first expansion in 2019, and the gap’s connection to the railway community the following year, we have got a total of 142,000 sq m (over 1.5 million square feet) of warehousing, handling home, railway, parking and commence place at Tbilisi, with over 177 workers providing a bulky fluctuate of logistics products and companies to our customers in the gap,” explains Alexander Kharlamov, Country Manager for Georgia at Gebrüder Weiss. “We are also the usage of this expansion as a likelihood to extra create out our transport products and companies in the Caucasus space and to ramp up our collaboration with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and diversified Central Asian countries. This can advantage our world key memoir customers, too,” adds Thomas Moser, Regional Manager Shadowy Sea/CIS at Gebrüder Weiss. Basically the most present funding of 11.5 million euros (over $12.6 million) in the Tbilisi terminal brings the company’s total funding in the gap to extra than 25 million euros (over $27 million) since its inception.
Bigger than a decade ago, Gebrüder Weiss acknowledged the untapped financial ability held by Georgia and the geostrategic significance of the Central Asian countries when it first invested in the gap in 2012. Consequently, the company selected to place its possess space in Georgia. The logistics center at Tbilisi International Airport has since turn into a central hub for the growing commerce of goods between Europe and Central Asia, and during the Caucasus space. Free commerce agreements with the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union have extra boosted commerce ranges and made Georgia a extraordinarily predominant transit country.
At the unique time, producers in textiles, family goods, excessive-tech, and car industries all invent exercise of Gebrüder Weiss’s products and companies – from truck and rail transport to air and sea freight, customs clearance and warehouse logistics. Right thru the final 5 years, Gebrüder Weiss’s Georgian operation has processed spherical 130,000 shipments weighing some 470,000 tonnes.
