DB Schenker provides warehousing, transport to Nestles Belgium

DB Schenker is expanding its fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) business in Belgium after winning as a new customer Nestrade SA, a wholly-owned of Swiss-based Nestle.

Nestrade is exporting Nestle products to emerging markets and provides regional business solutions such as supplying food products by air, rail, and ocean, and selling ethnic products.

"Nestrade was looking for a storage and transportation solution to support their business within Europe, Eastern Europe and, to a smaller extent, worldwide," says Brigitte Lahey, logistics project manager, Schenker NV.

"Our logistics centre in Willebroek was seen as the best location to handle the Nestrade business, as this site is specialised in food customers and is already managing the warehousing and distribution for Nestle Belgilux."

The first inbound container from Sri Lanka arrived at the port of Antwerp and stock has already been moved from its previous provider. Since the beginning of October, the business has been fully operational, a company statement said.

The centre in Willebroek is located on the Brussels-Antwerp axis, close to two major motorways. The FMCG centre is said to be a state-of-the-art warehouse covering 85,000 square metres. It allows flexible storage options in five different temperature zones ranging from -22 Celsius to +18 Celsius and ambient. It has a storage capacity of 100,000 euro pallets.