Port-centric logistics

DP-World-owned P&O Ferrymasters has partnered with Genk Green Logistics to build a 10,000 square metre state-of-the-art warehouse near Belgium’s Port of Genk, further enhancing its pan-European rail, road and warehousing network. The warehouse will be constructed on a carbon neutral site and designed to meet the ‘excellent rating’ of BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method).

Mark Mulder, P&O Ferrymasters’ contract logistics director, said: “This new warehouse capacity at Genk is a vital addition to our port-centric logistics strategy and growing pan-European intermodal network. Specifically tailored to meet the evolving requirements of customers, the facility will provide the greater operational flexibility and capacity required to reinforce resilience in crucial, time-sensitive supply chains.”

Boosting efficiency

The new facility – strategically located near the port which is in the heart of Flanders’ industrial belt – is equipped with high end Warehouse Management Systems and will enable customers to increase efficiency, have better visibility of their goods and expand storage capacity in their end-to-end supply chains.

The warehouse is ideally positioned to accommodate the import and export of goods requiring storage for international deep-sea routes and to the United Kingdom via both the English Channel and North Sea.

The site’s multimodal transport links, which include access to the Albert Canal and direct barging to DP World’s terminal at Antwerp, will facilitate existing customers’ export of high-value industrial products to consumers throughout Europe and via onward connections to Russia, China and the US.