Toyota Material Handling CZ, a key provider of warehouse equipment and logistics solutions, has appointed a new General Director, signaling continued strategic focus on operational excellence and customer service.
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech (HMMC), in cooperation with Telink and Centr Group, has deployed operational drones with a special docking station into live operation after a series of trials. The primary task of the drones is to increase efficiency in protecting the perimeter of the facility and logistical operations, Telink representatives announced.
International logistics company Kuehne+Nagel announced that during the first year of operation, more than 147,000 tons of goods of various types passed through its terminal in Zdice in the Central Bohemian Region, with employees there dispatching almost 140,000 shipments.
The international logistics and transport company Gebrüder Weiss is expanding its operations in South Bohemia. In a strategic transport hub near the highway, a new logistics facility is being built in Boršov nad Vltavou – a transshipment warehouse with an area of 1,560 square meters and offices with an area of 216 square meters. The new premises will be opened in the middle of this year and will strengthen the capacity of the GW branch in České Budějovice, which has been operating here since 1999. The company announced this in a press release.
Havi (provides logistics for McDonald's) will be the first tenant in Panattoni Business Park Kladno, which is being built on the brownfield site of the former Poldi Kladno. The first hall will have a total area of 55,500 square meters. Havi will rent 9,300 square meters, where it will operate a logistics center for the storage and distribution of frozen and chilled products. This follows from a press release from the project investor, the RSJ group, and from a brief announcement by Havi on the social network Linkedin. The developer is Panattoni.
The quality of warehouse and manufacturing properties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia is increasing, say experts at 108 Real Estate. According to them, this is partly a response to changing tenant requirements, but at the same time, higher standards from Western Europe are being imposed on both countries. This real estate consulting company is therefore introducing a new system of industrial hall standards classification in its Czech headquarters from April 1st, which reflects this development. It aims to offer the market a more accurate picture of premium industrial parks.
At the GTC 2025 conference in San José, USA in March, Kion Group presented how its subsidiary Dematic uses so-called physical artificial intelligence. It was a control tower that, in conjunction with a digital twin and AI, analyzes warehouse processes and helps to further streamline them. This is another result of Kion's collaboration with Nvidia and Accenture: the digital twin is created using Nvidia Omniverse technologies and the Mega Omniverse Blueprint platform.
Ecologistics, a logistics company specializing in e-commerce, is expanding its operations in the P3 Logistic Parks in Lovosice. As part of its expansion, it will lease Hall C, which the developer completed last year, on a long-term basis. This will bring the capacity of P3 Lovosice to almost full, according to the developer's current press release.
