The curtain-sided trailer offers a payload of up to 27.5 tons while starting at an unladen weight as low as 4.8 tonnes.

The two semi-trailers handed over to Tevex Logistics were an ‘S.KOe Cool’ model with an all-electric refrigeration unit and an ‘S.KO Cool’ with a diesel unit.

The manufacturer has established ‘Schmitz Cargobull South Central Asia’ at the location of an authorised service partner, Technodom, in the city of Chirchiq.

Schmitz stated that the two companies will combine their “expertise in designing and building superstructures on rigid chassis, including tarpaulin, boxes, and refrigerated solutions”.

When complete, eleven hectares and 750 parking spaces for customer vehicles will be added.

The order consists of fifty ‘S.BO Express’ semi-trailers with dry freight bodies and twenty-five dollies which connect a pair of trailers to create an extra-long truck-trailer combination (up to a maximum length of 31.5 metres).

Schmitz began production of its own axles at the Altenberge plant in 2004: since then, it has manufactured 2 million of them, installing them on trailers made in Altenberge or shipping them to its other trailer plants in Europe and Turkey.

The American manufacturer announced in September that it is adding two new third-party options to its semi-trailers: a lightweight brake drum from Accuride; and a liftgate battery charger from Schmitz Cargobull’s North American joint venture with Utility.

Since 2020, Bernhard Schmitz has served as CEO and co-founder of a supply chain management firm called Exxcility Business Solutions.

The ‘S.CU dc85’ is the latest model in Schmitz’s range of diesel-powered refrigeration units and is intended to replace the company’s current “top” model, the ‘S.CU 2.0’.

The jury praised the concept of the truck, which was first unveiled at the last IAA Transportation event in 2022: originally called ‘eActros Long Haul’, the idea was to develop a truck capable of covering up to 500 kilometres on a single charge.

In addition to Schmitz products, the new warehouse will also store parts for Berger Fahrzeugtechnik, a specialist in lightweight trailers.