Final work on Express Trailers’ 2,800 square metre Central Warehouse

Express Trailers is about to take third-party logistics to the next level as work on its new 2,800 square metre warehouse is in its final stages. Located centrally in Qormi, this new warehouse centralises all Express Trailers’ managed warehousing activity in one depot, to cater for the increased business in this sector.

“Express Trailers has always worked very closely with Maltese retailers and few understand the needs of these retailers as we do. We know that to operate and to remain competitive, one needs to be backed up with the right logistics set-up and a robust IT platform. This is where Express Trailers can come in with its third-party logistics and warehouse management solutions,” explains Express Trailers chairman and CEO Franco Azzopardi.

“We ask businesses one simple question: how much more efficient would you be if you could focus on the core operations of your business without the hassle of having to manage inventories, storage and deliveries? It is a fact that so many companies have a lot of capital and human effort locked up in inventory management. We are proposing an innovative ‘pay-as-you-use’ system where Express Trailers provides companies with a fully-managed central warehousing facility and distribution operations, supported by a very robust IT system to handle all their imports, exports, storage, deliveries and distribution requirements.

Express Trailers is currently finalising an IT platform which, whatever the commercial activity being operated, will be able to ‘talk’ to the retailer’s e-commerce software and handle all the orders and deliveries in real time. Through Express Trailers’ warehousing and distribution services, businesses are being offered a total solution in which the stock stored at Express Trailers’ warehouse is managed by a warehouse management system that picks, packs and delivers on behalf of the customer.

“On the bottom line, what we are offering is a scalable storage and distribution solution, a ‘pay-as-youuse’ system where, instead of owning and managing their ancillary warehouses and being tied down with idle space and human resources, merchants can avail themselves of the space they need, thus cutting significant costs, especially when their stored stocks are at their lowest. All companies enjoy expertise in their respective lines of business. What we are saying is that companies should concentrate on investing in their people and their core operations and leave the han- dling of imports, exports, deliveries and distribution to a company like ours, which is the expert in transport and third-party logistics.

“This latest investment in our new 2,800 square metre warehouse in Qormi’s industrial estate is our company’s next important move. We are confident that this will be a concrete step that will cement Express Trailers as the leader in the local managed warehousing sector,” Azzopardi concluded.