66 million euro investment
Nordfrost continues to invest at JadeWeserPort Wilhelmshaven
The Nordfrost seaport terminal in the container port of Wilhelmshaven began operations in mid-2012 as the first settler in the logistics zone. Construction is now continuing there and the seaport terminal is being expanded again.
Now that Nordfrost has received planning permission for a fully automated 40 m high high-bay warehouse to extend the existing deep-freeze warehouse and for an 8,000 m² three-bay heavy-duty hall with overhead cranes for weights of up to 125 tons for project shipments, construction work on these projects has begun. The heavy-duty halls are scheduled for completion within eleven months. The rail connection will be completed a little later. The high-bay warehouse is scheduled for completion in May 2021. The adjoining spacious hygiene areas for food processing, which will be used for customer orders, will go into operation in November 2020.
Nordfrost has so far invested 104 million euros in the logistics zone of the container port of Wilhelmshaven. Another 66 million euros will now be added. After that, around 11 ha of the 33 ha will still be available for further development. Intensive work is already underway on the planning of further projects at the terminal.
Around 50% of the 33-hectare site of the Nordfrost seaport terminal is currently built on and used, with 70,000 square meters of warehouse space and 90,000 square meters of paved outdoor facilities. Frozen goods, fresh produce and dry goods such as furniture, household goods and toys are stored in the 18-meter-high warehouses in equal proportions. There is a constantly growing container depot on the outside areas, and container repairing, washing of containers and, for example, handling of imported timber from containers onto trucks takes place.
Business relationships now exist with more than 100 customers from the entire food industry, the meat and poultry industry, the fish industry, the dairy sector and the confectionery and ice cream industry as well as the fruit and potato sector. All three storage areas (frozen, fresh, dry) are largely working to capacity, as is the labor-intensive processing area. Due to the increased demand for storage capacity for dry goods, the company's own warehouse for general cargo, located one kilometer away, has already been relocated. Together with container trucking and the forwarding department, a total of 350 employees work in three shifts at the Nordfrost seaport terminal.
The warehouses currently have a total capacity of 105,000 pallet spaces or the equivalent of 3,500 truck/container loads, which can be handled very quickly due to the focus on the port business and therefore contribute significantly to the development of container handling in Wilhelmshaven.
In view of the high demand from shippers, company boss Horst Bartels sees enormous potential for the container port of Wilhelmshaven and, with the investments now underway in the logistics zone, is creating the conditions to serve this on the landside. On the seaborne side, the aim should be to gain further liner connections, e.g. to South Africa, South America or the USA, as quickly as possible for the port, which is still "one-armed" with Far East lines.










