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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.41 - Freight transport by road
165 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 June 2020
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Hungarian freight transportation firm BHS Trans is to build four logistic sites in in Keszthely, Pécs, Debrecen and Szeged. Due to these new facilities, some 165 jobs will be created, most of them in the Debrecen site.
The whole investment project will cost approximately €23 million, about €10 of which will be covered by government subsidy.
The four new sites will have a total hall area of 22,000 square metres and a total office area of 2,000 square metres. The largest facility in Debrecen will start operating in early 2021.
BHS Trans is a prominent logistics firm in Hungary. One of its partners is the Hungarian energy drink manufacturer Hell Energy. As of now, it has four logistic centres. With the four new facilities being opened, the firm will have any point of the country within 150 km distance.
Eurofound (2020), BHS Trans, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 101139, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101139.
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