LOGISTICS
From outpost to stronghold Van Moer Logistics
Photo courtesy of Jean-Louis Vandevoorde.
Van Moer Logistics, one of the biggest providers of logistic services in Belgium, has strongly scaled up its presence within North Sea Port, while at the same time giving a major boost to its activities in the field of e-commerce. The group intends to build on this to make North Sea Port one of the hotspots in its network. “For us this is a strategic choice. We are determined to play the Ghent card to the full”, says chief commercial officer Carl Ghekiere.
Van Moer started up its own operations in Ghent in 2015, renting 6,500m² in a warehouse in the Skaldenpark, the largest logistics zone on the right bank of the sea canal to Terneuzen. “To serve industrial clients like Volvo Trucks we needed a local foothold to deal with their flows”, Carl Ghekiere explains. “Business was usually brisk and the occupancy rate high, though to be honest it was little more than an outpost in our network that was experiencing a solid expansion in other regions of the country. Nevertheless we never lost sight of Ghent, which fitted perfectly in our ambitions for geographical diversification and offered a largely untapped potential.”
New dimension The group’s operations within North Sea Port have recently taken on a whole new dimension. In addition to the Skaldenpark Van Moer now has about 45,000m² of warehouse capacity on two
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