Ground-breaking for DB Schenker hub in Dallas

Construction has begun following a ground-breaking ceremony for the new DB Schenker logistics center at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). The roughly 19,000 square meter facility for international air freight as well as national supply and distribution is expected to begin operating this fall.

The newly built facility will practically double BAX Global and Schenker’s existing capacity at DFW International Airport. Seventy-eight truck bays, state-of-the-art communications technology, an efficient infrastructure, and security systems guarantee that freight is handled quickly while providing the highest levels of service quality. About 160 employees will work at the new site.

DFW International Airport is a strategic hub for DB Schenker in the US. It not only distributes air freight originating in Asia and Europe throughout the central US, but also consolidates freight from Texas and the Southwest in Dallas and feeds it either to the national North American distribution network or to the rest of the world.

In February 2007 BAX Global and Schenker opened a new large-scale logistics hub featuring a 21,000 square meter logistics facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in the northern US. <Korea Shipping Gazette>