update! - Lehnkering

12 update! 10/2010 Distribution Logistics & Services
Successful start in Rotterdam
In January 2010 the LEHNKERING Distribution Logistics & Services (DLS) Division
started business operations at its new hazardous-goods store in Rotterdam.
After the foam-extinguisher system had been success-
fully tested in November 2009, LEHNKERING was able
to start storing the goods. Within a very short time its
ten new, and existing, customers were established at
the site.
In its high-shelf store in the port of Rotterdam LEHNKERING
has some 12,000 palette-storage spaces, covering 6,000
square metres, on which hazardous materials in ADR
hazardous-goods categories 3, 6.1, 8 and 9 (flammab-
le, poisonous, corrosive, environmentally dangerous) can
be warehoused. At this site the company stores different
products for their regional und international customers.
“Thanks to our many years of experience and our compre-
hensive expertise in warehousing logistics for hazardous
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The Distribution Logistics & Services (DLS) Division comprises warehousing
logistics, distribution of goods to the consumer, in-plant logistics (logistics and
control of goods and information flows using own staff on the site of the customer),
and activity in the seaports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg. This
includes services for the transport of containers, bulk and mixed cargoes; handling,
storage and onward transport of freight; to customs coordination and inventory
management − right up to dispatch monitoring.
In all, LEHNKERING has more than 271,500 varied palette-storage places at
its disposal, including temperature-controlled and air-conditioned storage space.
The DLS depots are located in Baar-Ebenhausen, Biebesheim, Bottrop, Duisburg,
Fürth, Hamburg, Krefeld/Uerdingen, Langelsheim, Leuna, Lübeck, Mannheim,
Münster, Schönebeck/Elbe, Schüttorf, Wolfenbüttel, Barendrecht (The
Netherlands), Rotterdam, and Ennis (Texas, USA).
goods, we were able to bring operations at the new store
up to speed rapidly”, says Michael Pohl, a member of the
divisional management board of LEHNKERING GmbH,
Distribution Logistics & Services. Services at Rotterdam are
oriented thoroughly towards the customer’s supply chain
− they run from import and export handling, to delivery-in-
store and incoming-goods monitoring, right up to individual
order picking and Europe-wide distribution. LEHNKERING
can further provide its customers with fiscal representati-
on and, because the goods in the bonded warehouse are
only subject to customs dues when they are taken out,
LEHNKERING also undertakes this task.
“The demand for storage logistics for hazardous goods
in Rotterdam continues to be very high and will rise