NORDFROST Group Takes Over GLS Grünwald Logistics

The NORDFROST Group will take over the operational business of GLS Grünwald Logistik Service GmbH effective February 1, 2024, and will continue operations with even more service depth. This expands NORDFROST’s dry storage capacities near the Port of Hamburg by two locations with a total of approximately 30,000 m² of storage space.

(Schortens) The business of GLS Grünwald Logistik Service GmbH, which will continue under the name NORDFROST from February 1, 2024, is primarily focused on the storage of preserved food products. The two locations are logistically optimally situated in Hamburg Billbrook. From here, the complete supply chain for major German food retail companies will be primarily managed in goods import. By integrating this business unit into the NORDFROST network, the logistics provider from Schortens near Wilhelmshaven increases its capacities in the area of dry storage and thus offers its customers expanded options directly in Hamburg. In addition, NORDFROST gains fourteen dedicated and experienced employees. The team will be led by Rainer Hautz, a long-standing branch manager of NORDFROST in Hamburg.

NORDFROST has long been represented at the container port of Hamburg with frozen and dry storage capacities and offers importers and exporters numerous value-added services as well as the organization of sea freight with pre- and post-carriage, including customs clearance from a single source. In addition to the port locations in Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven, NORDFROST also has dry storage capacities at other branches in the hinterland, which are available to the food industry as well as customers from other sectors.

“We are very pleased to expand NORDFROST’s overall offering and within the German container seaports with this company acquisition,” says Britta Bartels, managing partner of the family business. “This gives us even more opportunities to provide our customers with comprehensive logistics solutions for international traffic that are convincing in many ways,” adds Philipp Brandstrup, member of the management board (port logistics) at NORDFROST.

40 Logistics Centers Nationwide

Depending on customer needs and requirements, selected locations of the company can be integrated into the global supply chain that NORDFROST efficiently and sustainably designs for food, non-food, pharmaceuticals, and breakbulk in all temperature ranges. A total of 40 logistics centers with a total capacity of approximately 1 million pallet spaces are available nationwide. The offering is complemented by national and international transport services of all kinds, including Europe-wide groupage traffic for the fine distribution of frozen goods.

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