U-Freight begins construction in Shanghai
Construction has begun on a $29.3 million logistics facility for the UFL Group at Shanghai Pudong International airport for the international freight service and logistics company UFL Group. Completion of the building is expected within 15 months.
Simon Wong, the company’s chief executive officer, said the new facility “cements our position in the region and I look forward to bringing it on line next year. With better transit times and airside connectivity we have designed this new location to provide the ultimate smooth traffic flows to, from and within the warehousing complex.
'Furthermore, one of Shanghai's most strategic ports at Yang Shan is less than 30 minutes away, which will enable us to use the new facility for our ever-expanding ocean freight forwarding activities to and from the region served via the Shanghai gateway. The warehouse will also serve as a convenient CFS for ocean freight handling and processing.
The warehouse will have three floors with a total footprint of about 320,000 square feet, while the adjoining seven-story office facility will provide 135,00 square feet of space.
On each of the three floors there will be 15 loading docks. The top floor will house a temperature-controlled logistics facility, rooms for refrigerated and frozen cargoes, as well as an area dedicated to high-value cargoes.