Yusen Logistics RUS LLC will open a 24,000-square-meter warehouse in Pokrov, a suburb of Moscow.

Yusen Logistics continues to invest in its supply chain in Russia as the economy rebounds. Due to the growing demand for consumer goods products, especially for items such as large electrical appliances, warehouse capacity has become tight, so the company is expanding operations to accommodate its customers' needs.

The warehouse is located 20 kilometers south of Moscow and is one of two facilities that the company operates in Russia. Combined with the second location, a 10,000-square-meter warehouse in St. Petersburg, Yusen Logistics offers more than 30,000 square meters of warehouse space in the country.

Services at the new facility will include warehousing and inventory management, as well as inland transportation services. The company counts appliance makers and retail equipment manufacturers among its customers at this location.

As an end-to-end logistics services provider, Yusen Logistics continues to expand its ocean and air freight forwarding services in the region. In September, the company opened an office in St. Petersburg airport, Pulkovo to support its growing air freight forwarding business. It recently launched an ocean freight forwarding service from the Black Sea, with a hub at Novorossiysk, where it is the only Japanese forwarder to own a base, as well as a service via the Trans-Siberian Railway, which capitalizes on its base in Nakhodka as a gateway from the Pacific and Far East.

Yusen Logistics also provides ocean freight forwarding services from the Russian ports of Saint Petersburg, Novorossiysk and Nakhodka Vostochny. Outside of Russia, the company offers the same services in Kotka, Finland; Riga, Tallinn and Klaipeda in the Baltic countries; and Odessa and Ilyichevsk in the Ukraine.