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Schenker completes Irish trio, with more to come

[ October 4, 2023   //   ]

DB Schenker has completed three of its four major development projects to provide larger, facilities in Ireland. Under a €94m investment programme, sites at Shannon (County Clare), Leixlip (County Kildare) and Baldonnel (County Dublin) are now fully operational, while an additional facility in Dublin for the forwarder’s land operations will shortly start construction and is scheduled for completion in January 2025.

Demand from healthcare and technology customers is powering growth for the forwarder in Ireland, which now employs 800 people. 

In Shannon, DB Schenker has delivered 40,000sq ft of warehousing, as well as 12,000sq ft office accommodation.

In Leixlip, it built a 220,000sq ft facility, which includes 200,000 of high bay warehousing, together with office accommodation. The site will allow for 50,000sq ft of future expansion. The building is LEED Gold certified, and is the more sustainable industrial buildings in Ireland, Schenker says.

The Baldonnel facility consists of high-bay warehouse space  and DB Schenker invested some €3 million in a specialised fit-out for the facility.

In Dublin the company is close to acquiring approximately six acres of land in for a new land transport hub of around.45,000sq ft.

Head of real estate for the UK and Ireland, Eoghan Turner said: “The last three years have seen major growth at DB Schenker which has resulted in significant new investment in Irish real estate, as well as the upgrading of our property portfolio across the UK and Ireland cluster. We have delivered several large projects, not least the construction of our 220,000sq ft LEED Gold Leixlip facility, a long-term lease of 130,000 sq. ft at Baldonnell Business Park, and the delivery of our new facility in Shannon. We will continue to concentrate on similar high quality, sustainable assets as we go into the future”.

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