Coca Cola Amatil Indonesia To Open Biggest Distribution Center

Bekasi, West Java, May 14 (ANTARA) - Coca Cola Amatil Indonesia (CCAI) opens its biggest regional distribution center in Indonesia in Cibitung, West Java, it said in a press statement received here on Tuesday. The opening of the center scheduled on Tuesday is expected to be attended by CCAI president Erich Rey. The facility on a 32,000 square meter land is the largest ever built by the beverage company. It is later capable of keeping more than two million cardboard packages of various carbonated drinks, juices, tea, isotonic and mineral water. Erich said the facility is an important aset for Coca Cola business in Indonesia as it will bridge manufacturing and logistic facilities in Java and be completed with a sophisticated warehouse management system. "The modern facilities would increase CCAI`s logistical power in Indonesia. Its capacity could meet market demand which has kept increasing and assure our distribution and production capacity expansion plan in Indonesia in the future," he said. The distribution center located on the same location of CCAI factory is one of the projects CCAI finished this year. Besides in Cibitung CCAI has also set up a 10,000 square meter regional distribution center worth US$5 million in Medan, North Sumatra. "The distribution center in Medan has been operating since the end of 2012," he said. CCAI also plans to build a regional distribution center in Semarang, Central Java, which is expected to be completed in October this year.