The step-by-step commissioning of the new Global Parts Center (GPC) in Halberstadt is proceeding according to plan, with the first spare parts already stored. The new Daimler Truck location has now been officially opened, the automaker announced in a press release on July 10.
In the future, up to 300,000 different items – from the smallest screw to a complete truck cab – will be delivered from the new logistics location to vehicle dealers in over 170 countries worldwide. According to Daimler Truck, the Global Parts Center makes an important contribution to ensuring international goods flows. Flexible and efficient spare parts logistics are an important success factor for Mercedes-Benz Trucks and their global customers: Through fast and comprehensive parts supply, vehicle fleets can be in operation as much as possible and in downtime as little as necessary.
Daimler Truck is investing around 500 million euros in Halberstadt in total. Around 650 jobs will be created at the GPC by early 2026. Currently, nearly 200 employees are already working at the site.
Karin Rådström, CEO of Daimler Truck, said at the opening:
“Our new Global Parts Center enables us to serve our customers even
better. From Halberstadt, we can quickly and efficiently supply them with spare parts for Mercedes-Benz Trucks in over 170 countries, thereby ensuring maximum uptime for their trucks.”
Around 2,600 suppliers of Mercedes-Benz Trucks will supply the logistics location with their parts in the future. Goods receipt at the GPC began in mid-May of this year, gradually filling the logistics areas and shelves. From early 2026, the new location will serve over 20 regional logistics centers and nearly 3,000 dealers worldwide – including in various European countries, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, and Australia. Halberstadt will thus become the hub for the global spare parts supply of Mercedes-Benz Trucks.
All vehicle parts will be available for retrieval in an automated high-bay warehouse and an automated small parts warehouse. Two large, parallel halls, each around 200 meters wide and 600 meters long, will handle goods receipt and dispatch. Additionally, some smaller buildings have emerged since the groundbreaking, such as empty goods and recycling halls or the office building.
The new building in the Industrial Park East of Halberstadt will, in its first expansion stage, have a built-up gross floor area of around 270,000 square
meters with about 260,000 square meters of logistics space. This corresponds to more than 35 football fields.
Daimler Truck has enlisted DP World to take over the operational day-to-day business at the GPC. This includes, among other things, the execution of logistics processes in goods receipt and dispatch as well as parts storage. The company has extensive experience across the entire logistics chain and, despite its global structure, pursues a clear regional focus.
The new logistics location is designed from the start for CO₂-neutral operation, with the energy concept completely avoiding fossil fuels. Neither natural gas nor oil is needed. The energy required at the site is generated by a large rooftop photovoltaic system. More than 90 percent of all roof surfaces at the site, around 250,000 square meters, have been equipped with photovoltaic modules.
The photovoltaic system with over 22 megawatt peak (MWp) is expected to generate more than 20 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year in the future. This is significantly more than will be consumed at the site. Excess energy from the Global Parts Center will be fed into the grid. To maximize the degree of self-sufficiency over the period
of use, additional energy storage facilities are planned. In the first stage, an energy storage system of about 2,000 kilowatt-hours is planned, to be supplemented by another storage at a later date.
30 charging points for employee e-vehicles available
The heating of the site is provided by electric heat pumps that bring heat into the building via underfloor heating systems. Due to the low heating water temperatures and the storage effect of the industrial floors, high energy efficiency is to be achieved.
To facilitate access to electromobility for employees, around 30 charging points for e-vehicles will be provided. The infrastructure is already prepped for the further, future expansion of the charging infrastructure.
Appropriate charging facilities are also available for the trucks of suppliers, whose fleets will gradually be electrified: 16 charging points with 200-kilowatt charging capacity and four charging points with 400-kilowatt charging capacity are available for this purpose. With the shuttle service between the approximately 30 kilometers distant Oschersleben, where the pre-packaging of certain volumes takes place at a service provider, and the GPC Halberstadt, Daimler Truck will electrify the first route as early as August 2025. Further e-truck routes are to