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Yusen Logistics expands warehousing in Russia to cope with growing demand

IN its continuing effort to invest in its supply chain in Russia as the economy rebounds, Japanese international freight forwarder, Yusen Logistics RUS LLC, will to open a 24,000-square metre warehouse in Pokrov, a suburb of Moscow, in January 2014.

Owing to growing demand for consumer goods products, especially for items such as large electrical appliances, warehouse capacity has become tight, so the company is expanding to accommodate customer needs.

The warehouse is 20 kilometres south of Moscow and is one of two facilities that the company operates in Russia. Combined with the second location, a 10,000-square metre warehouse in St Petersburg, Yusen Logistics offers 30,000 square metres of warehouse space in the country, according to the American Journal of Transportation.

Services at the new facility will include warehousing and inventory management, as well as inland transportation services. The company counts appliance makers and retail equipment manufacturers among its customers at this location.

As an end-to-end logistics services provider, Yusen Logistics continues to expand its ocean and air freight forwarding services in the region. In September, the company opened an office in St Petersburg airport to support its growing air freight forwarding business.

The company also recently launched an ocean freight forwarding service from the Black Sea at Novorossiysk, where it is the only Japanese forwarder to own a base, as well as a service via the Trans-Siberian Railway, which capitalises on its base in Nakhodka as a gateway from the Pacific and Far East.