The transport and logistics services provider Geodis has expanded its presence in Belgium, establishing a new sorting centre in Schoten, near Antwerp, as well as a new office located within the airport of Liege.
According to the France-headquartered company, the first is anticipated to facilitate the extension of one of its largest international e-commerce customers into the Belgian market and the second is intended to reinforce Geodis e-commerce activity in Europe.
In Schoten, the new sorting centre of 6,300 m2 which is estimated to host around 100 to 150 express trucks per day, will operate 24/7 in order to process up to 20,000 parcels daily and 140,000 per week.
Regarding the new office at Grâce-Hollogne, near Liege, it is adjacent to the seventh-largest airport for air freight in Europe, which, according to Geodis, it is renowned for its expertise in e-commerce.
The strategic location of the new office within the Amsterdam-Paris-Frankfurt will provide a connection between the Asian and North American continents, as well as the transport company’s European multimodal distribution network.
“For our customers, this means access to more than 250 million consumers in less than a day by road, also via barge connections from Liege to Antwerp, Rotterdam and on to the Rhine, as well as through air and rail connectivity with China from Zhengzhou, Yiwu and Chengdu,” commented Mark van den Assem, Managing Director of Geodis for Benelux.
