More and more people are ordering and sending packages.
DHL has to follow suit.
It is expanding its location in Aschheim.
Even Prime Minister Söder was there at the groundbreaking ceremony.
Aschheim
- Nothing has worked without Aschheim for 30 years. All Deutsche Post DHL parcels delivered in Upper Bavaria first end up at the Aschheim parcel center, where they are placed in the delivery vehicles. With the pandemic, online trade even increased massively, so the parcel center has to grow too. The first step has been taken: Yesterday, the groundbreaking ceremony took place for the extension, which should go into operation in the third quarter of 2022 - in time for next year's Christmas business.
The building is on a 67,000 square meter site on Klausnerstrasse.
In future, 72,000 parcels per hour will be processed at the most powerful DHL location in Germany.
The Post bought part of the space that was earmarked for the Daimler Center for Commercial Vehicles.
Between the post office and the autobahn, Daimler still has a plot of land for the construction project, which has become quite quiet.
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A swimming pool?
Prime Minister Söder (left) first made suggestions as to what Mayor Glashauser could do with the increase in tax revenue.
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The visit by Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) also made clear the importance of the major Post construction site. He emphasized that this ability to deliver parcels is an important factor for “the logistics of the future”. Therefore, the groundbreaking is an important moment: "This is going to be a big thing, even if it currently looks more like a lunar landscape," said Söder. And then he joked in the direction of Aschheim's mayor Thomas Glashauser: "When Corona is over, the community can build a new swimming pool or buy a new slide for the playground."
Glashauser winced in shock at the swimming pool.
For him, however, the expansion of the parcel center will be worthwhile.
In the past, the establishment was more of a prestige thing, but business tax income can be expected here in the future.
He emphasized that the community had sought quick and pragmatic solutions for expanding the sorting center with the post.
In the process, both sides also agreed that the residential areas would no longer be parked full of vehicles from the delivery staff.
The expanded parcel center has enough space for the van parking decks.
You can find more news from Aschheim and the district of Munich here.
