Italian regional retailer Conad del Tirreno is investing over €20 million over the next four years to build the largest logistics hub in Central Italy.
Once completed, the hub, based in Montopoli, near Pisa, will manage 65 million deliveries per year, compared to the 43.5-million capacity that Conad currently has in the region.
According to Conad, the proposed facility will be a modern and efficient hub in terms of cost, transport and emissions, thanks to the adoption of innovative, cutting-edge solutions.
These solutions include an automated sequential sorting plant, a new centre for the management of packaging, and a facility for the preparation and storage of frozen goods.
Montopoli will host all the operations that were previously based in Altopascio.
The project will be built in three stages, the first of which should be completed in the first quarter of 2017.
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