Ahlers to setup chemical warehousing facility in India

Ahlers, a logistic and maritime services provider group, headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium. Ahlers provides opportunity of work to more than 700 staff members in 16 countries in Europe, CIS and Asia. Ahlers’s presence can be seen with the help of map (here). Ahlers facilitates industries such as textile-industry, the furniture-industry and the agriculture-products industry.

For information of readers and as per new article (here), Ahlers India won the 'Freight Forwarder of the Year - International' award at the South East CEO Conclave 2012 on 17^th July, 2012. The award is an initiative of Exim Shipping Times, the leading publishing company for the logistic and maritime industry in India. The other nominees were DHL Global Forwarding and Schenker India.

 In 2004, Ahlers has established a branch office in India, headquartered in Chennai (here), aim to cover Southern India in first phase, with two additional offices in Coimbatore and Cochin. Presently, it has presence in many cities of Indian states as Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Cochin, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Guntur, New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, and Tamil Nadu. It is plan to set two more offices in Vadodara and Gandhidham. It also plans to open offices in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ludhiana and Jalandhar, said Pradeep Joseph, General Manager, Ahlers India. 

As per the news article (here), Ahlers is also plans to set up a chemical warehousing facility in Gujarat. Joseph said the location of the Gujarat facility has yet to be finalised. However, it could be in the Ankaleshwar-Panoli-Mumbai belt, where major chemical factories are located. The facility will be of around 20,000 sq ft. This warehouse will handle and store packed chemicals, including hazardous goods. He said that Chemical storage in India is still at a nascent stage, with factories finding it difficult to transport critical products to their customers/ports without adequate storage facility in the supply chain. There are many other local & foreign players as Rhodea in chemical storage business. There is huge scope for such investment in India. Such kinds of expansion creates employment opportunities too.