It’s a huge 13,000 m2 red and yellow building on a site the size of seven rugby pitches next to Lyon’s Saint-Exupéry airport. DHL will receive its first parcels from July 2025. The new 24-hour logistics platform will require an investment of 121 million euros. This is the second-largest operation in France for the king of express delivery, who spent 170 million euros to open an even larger, ultra-modern sorting center (32,000 m2) in 2021. Of course, the German group wasn’t starting from scratch in Lyon: it already had three medium-sized sites. But with its brand-new facility, it’s going to change dimension. ” The new facility will employ 400 people: 360 existing staff from our Lyon sites and forty new staff recruited for the project, says Philippe Prétat, CEO of DHL Express France.. We will be able to handle 17,500 parcels per hour. “

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