- Geodis has announced an industrial plan in Italy aimed at reaching €500 million in turnover by 2030, with more than 2,000 employees and over 700,000 square metres of warehouses. New country manager Maurizio Bortolan is leading the relaunch with a One Face strategy that brings together the three business lines: Freight Forwarding, Road Transport and Contract Logistics.
- In Le Havre, the group has opened its first integrated port hub in France, with more than 200,000 square metres of logistics space, 800 specialists and over 250,000 containers handled in 2025. The facility brings together all four of the group’s business lines at a single site, with direct access to port infrastructure.
- In the pharmaceutical sector, Geodis has opened a new temperature-controlled warehouse in Manchester that complies with GDP standards, with 2,000 pallet positions and ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, TAPA and AEO certifications. In Italy, the renewal of its partnership with Beta Utensili in Massalengo reflects continued growth: the dedicated warehouse area increased from 14,000 to 32,000 square metres between 2021 and 2026.
Geodis, the global logistics group controlled by SNCF, presented a series of moves in rapid succession between April and June 2026 that point to a clear strategic direction: strengthening its direct presence in European markets, integrating business lines under a single operational structure and specialising in segments with high regulatory and technical complexity. In Italy, the new phase began under the leadership of Maurizio Bortolan, appointed country manager, who presented an industrial plan running to 2030. The targets include reaching turnover of €500 million, a workforce of more than 2,000 direct and indirect employees and a warehouse network totalling more than 700,000 square metres, while the directly managed fleet is expected to exceed 200 industrial vehicles.
The commercial model underpinning the plan is defined by the company as "One Face": a single point of contact for customers that integrates the three operational business lines in Italy, namely Freight Forwarding, European road transport and third-party logistics. According to the French company, this approach reduces operational fragmentation and enables it to offer solutions covering the entire supply chain consistently, both nationally and internationally. The company says it allocates 3.5% of its global turnover every year to digitalisation, artificial intelligence and automation projects, including the use of autonomous mobile robots in more than 80 warehouses worldwide. On sustainability, the group has set a target of reducing direct emissions by 42% and indirect emissions by 25% by 2030, as part of SNCF’s global Ambition 2027 plan.
The Italian industrial plan identifies three priority sectors: Chemical & Gas, High Tech and Defence & Aerospace. In the first, the company manages the entire supply chain for hazardous raw materials, including tanks, liquids and gases. In the second, it oversees what it describes as Italy’s most important logistics hub dedicated to consumer electronics, while in the third it handles classified and sensitive materials. These are joined by Pharma and Luxury, for which certified solutions are being developed for air and land flows.
Also in Italy, confirming the strength of its contract logistics business, Geodis has renewed its partnership with Beta Utensili, which began in 2014 at the Massalengo site. The services provided include storage, handling and value-added activities such as labelling and kitting. In 2025, the site handled around 90,000 orders and more than 45,000 stock keeping units (SKUs). By 2026, the dedicated warehouse area had increased from 14,000 square metres in 2021 to 32,000 square metres, reflecting the expansion of the customer’s product portfolio and the need to manage seasonal peaks in demand. The renewal of the agreement lays the groundwork for further developments linked to the integration of new brands into Beta Utensili’s portfolio.
In France, Geodis has announced the opening of its first integrated port hub, located at the port of Le Havre. The facility is within the customs port zone and brings together all four of the group’s business lines at a single site: distribution and express deliveries, international freight forwarding by sea, air and rail with customs operations included, European road transport and third-party logistics. In 2025, Geodis handled more than 250,000 containers at the French port. Logistics areas exceed 200,000 square metres, including 150,000 square metres within the customs port area, alongside a 20,000-square-metre customs container yard for managing peaks and urgent operations. Marie-Christine Lombard, chief executive of the group, identified links with the American and Asian markets as one of the factors behind the choice of Le Havre as the site of its first integrated port hub in France.
In the pharmaceutical sector, Geodis opened a logistics platform in Manchester at the beginning of June 2026, close to the airport and the M6 and M62 motorway corridors. The facility, with capacity for 2,000 pallet positions, complies with GDP standards for the distribution of pharmaceutical products and includes temperature-controlled zones between 15 and 25 degrees Celsius for ambient storage and between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius for refrigerated storage, with the option to add frozen storage in future. Operations are supported by a validated warehouse management system (WMS), with batch traceability, full audit trails and real-time stock visibility. The site is certified under ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, TAPA, AEO and Dangerous Goods standards. The facility has also been designed with a focus on energy consumption, including low-energy refrigeration systems, LED lighting and measures to reduce waste.
