Investment prize for a successful trio

The shipping company Reiner Bohnen, Danone Waters, and Garbe Logistic AG have been jointly awarded the North- Rhine Westphalia Investment Prize for the development of a new logistics centre in the port of Duisburg that began operation at the end of 2009. The shipping company Reiner Bohnen stores Evian and Volvic bottled water for Danone Waters at the facility, arranges crates of different-flavoured beverages into batches, and delivers them to dealers in northern Germany. Garbe has invested 15 million euros into the logistics centre. The bottles arrive from France by train, saving beverage manufacturers about 8000 truck trips and reducing emissions by 30 per cent.

NRW minister of economic affairs, Christa Thoben (centre), and Petra Wassner, managing director of the state-owned economic development agency NRW.Invest, presented (from left) Tom Albold, managing director of Danone Waters Germany, Jürgen Bohnen, managing partner of the shipping company Reiner Bohnen, and Christopher Garbe, chairman of the board of Garbe Logistic AG, with the investment prize.