GEFCO extends its partnership with Dacha in cooperation with Mercury



By this year the ended vehicles for markets Rumanian and Italian producing from the factory of Pitesti, in Rumania, of the automotive house Dacha are distributed by the Group Mercury, of which logistic company French GEFCO it has recently acquired 70% ( on 5 April and 17 May 2011). From the 2008 GEFCO she is partner of Dacha, for which it has realized a multimodale logistic solution that on the road arranges transport on railroad and, and from the 2012 distribution of means of the automotive house is entrusted estern Mercury, that it is between the more operating important in the transport vehicles.

In particular, GEFCO manages the activities inbound (between which the collection of the members from the suppliers of various European countries, between which Belgium and Germany) and the delivery to center CKD of Pitesti in Rumania, that it feeds the factory of assemblage of Dacha. From Pitesti, GEFCO manages shipments of the cars via road and railroad (about a train to week in the 2011) towards the park car of Parma, from where they come at last distributed on all the Italian territory.

GEFCO by sea assures the entire ability to transport for Dacha also during the production peaks, organizing customizzate shipments towards numerous Italian ports. The multimodale transport rubber/railroad is used also in order to transport the vehicles to the port of Constanta and for the exports in Middle East, Persian Gulf and Africa, with average of 5-6 trains to week.

GEFCO medium transports for Dacha 100,000 vehicles/year. The French group has explained that the partnership with Mercury it has sure contributed to I renew of the contract with Dacha for the distribution in Italy from the center automotive of Parma, where GEFCO and Mercury shares the logistic activities. "Dacha - the director has confirmed Global sales Accounts of GEFCO, Emmanuel Arnaud - has renewed the contract with GEFCO thanks to the efforts kinsmen of the Italian and Rumanian headquarters and the branches. We have moreover redesigned our logistic organization entrusting us to our new partner Mercury".

GEFCO has emphasized that, in terms of benefits for the atmosphere, the transport on railroad of ended vehicles Dacha between Pitesti and Constanta has represented a volume of 64.920 tons in 2010, with consequent reduction of 8.431 bisarche on the roads. "The transport on railroad - it has found the general manager of GEFCO Rumania, Christophe de Korver - anticipates numerous advantages, above all regarding the ability and the environmental impact, reducing the acoustic pollution and the carbon dioxide emissions, and is therefore a solution that we must continue to follow and to develop".