A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) has opened two new warehouses in India, strategically located near the National Capital Region in the northern part of the country.
The warehouses, inaugurated at Farrukhnagar, Harayana, and Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, take Maersk’s total warehousing footprint to just over one million sqm (3.3 million sq. ft) spread across more than 20 facilities in India.
Maersk CEO Soren Skou said in a statement announcing the launch on Friday, that it had opened the new warehouses as a strategic move to meet customer demands.
“Logistics is moving up the strategic agenda of organisations. Our conversations with customers are turning into holistic, partnership-based discussions through which they seek resilient solutions to their supply chains that are insulated from unforeseen disruptions,” said Skou. He added that an important element of end-to-end logistics was warehousing and distribution.
“Expanding the warehousing footprint is fundamental to our strategic growth, especially in an important market such as India, and helps us offer our customers truly integrated logistics solutions.”
Maersk Regional Managing Director, Ocean and Logistics, Richard Morgan, said the warehouses provided clients with an end-to-end logistics solution.
“Our ambition to support our customers with truly integrated logistics solutions is taking the right shape. Our customers have already utilised around 75% of the capacity of our existing warehouses, showing their faith and trust in our solutions. This also encourages us to keep investing in our warehousing expansion in India,” he said.
Earlier this month, Maersk completed the acquisition of LF Logistics, a Hong Kong-based contract logistics company with premium capabilities within omnichannel fulfilment services, e-commerce, and inland transport in the Asia-Pacific region. LF Logistics has seven warehouses in India, which have been added to Maersk’s network. Maersk’s footprint in India now includes a total of 20 warehouses.
