Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has opened a fourth warehouse facility at Copenhagen Airport to support the expansion of its specialised e-commerce and freight forwarder handling services in Scandinavia.
The new building covers an area of 4,800m² and takes WFS’ cargo handling footprint at the airport to over 21,500m², also including its dedicated temperature-controlled pharma facility in Copenhagen.
With this new investment, WFS can provide a host of value-added services for freight forwarders moving import and export cargo and e-commerce shipments through Copenhagen Airport.
Inge Briand de Crevecoeur, managing director of Copenhagen at WFS, said: “This is the latest expansion of our presence at Copenhagen Airport to support its growing cargo volumes and thriving freight forwarding community.
“We know from WFS’ experience at other major cargo gateways that forwarders are increasingly seeing value in outsourcing more of the physical handling aspects of their business to trusted partners like WFS.”
WFS’ e-commerce and freight forwarder handling service makes freight Ready-for-Carriage, captures weight and cargo measurements, provides security screening, consolidation and transportation to and from handling agents.
It also covers deconsolidation, sorting, and preparing shipments for customs clearance, and onward transportation by road, plus shipment labelling, repacking, crating and customised screening services.
WFS e-commerce solutions deliver a one-day total time reduction for international shipments to reach Scandinavian e-commerce customers through fast import sorting & scanning service to expedite customs clearance.
Marc Claesen, senior vice president of Northern Europe and Africa at WFS, said: “Our expansion in Copenhagen aligns perfectly with our strategy to grow our e-commerce and freight forwarder handling product across our network.
“We are diversifying our services in an increasingly challenging environment, where speed of handling and real-time information sharing are critical.
“Copenhagen joins our dedicated e-commerce and freight forwarder handling facilities in key European gateways such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Sweden and we will continue to seek new opportunities.”