Huge logistics and distribution centre of German giant inaugurated in Hungary – PHOTOS

Robert Bosch Power Tool inaugurated a 54bn regional logistics and distribution centre in Miskolc (NE Hungary) on Friday.

All of Robert Bosch Power Tool’s products bound for markets to the east will start from the new centre, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said. He noted that Bosch had signed a strategic agreement with the government of Hungary more than a decade earlier. The company employs around 18,300 locally, he added.

Szijjarto said Hungary needed to take advantage of its geographical position at the crossroads of delivery corridors between Southeastern Europe and Western Europe. Hungary’s logistics sector employs 290,000 people, he added. Szijjarto noted that agreements had been sealed last year on bringing investments with a value of more than EUR 10bn to Hungary. Those projects will create 18,500 jobs, he added.

In a statement, Bosch Magyarország said the 100,000 sqm automated logistics centre would have capacity to ship as many as 204,000 pallets of goods a year, with deliveries bound for 26 countries. The investment was supported by around HUF 7bn from the government.

Here are some more photos of the inauguration and the ministerial visit:

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