Every extra day your stock spends sitting in a warehouse is a day it isn't earning anything. Cross-docking shortens that idle time by moving goods almost directly from inbound to outbound transport, with minimal storage in between. Layner Group offers warehousing and cross-docking across the 27 EU countries, sized to your real volume rather than a fixed template.
How it works
Inbound shipments arrive at one of our hubs, get sorted and consolidated with outbound loads heading to the same destinations, and move out again — often within the same day. For goods that do need to sit for longer, standard warehousing runs alongside cross-docking in the same operation, so you're not forced to pick one model for your entire catalogue.
Where this makes the biggest difference
- High-turnover products where speed to the end customer matters more than storage flexibility.
- Businesses distributing across several EU countries, where consolidating loads by direction cuts transit time on each leg.
- E-commerce operations that want to shorten the last mile without holding excess inventory in every market.
Cross-docking isn't the right fit for everything — slow-moving stock or goods needing buffer inventory usually do better in standard warehousing. Part of setting this up is figuring out, product by product, which model actually fits.
Why Layner Group
- Coverage across all 27 EU countries, with own offices in France and Poland.
- Own fleet from 1 to 24 tonnes, ISO 9001 certified.
- Route optimisation to cut transit time and CO₂ emissions.
- Over 10,000 commercial shipments completed across the EU.
Costs and exact timelines depend on volume, product type and the routes involved, so we work in ranges until your operation's details are confirmed.
Let's map your flow
Tell us where your goods come from, where they need to go, and roughly how much volume moves through each route. From there we put together a warehousing and cross-docking setup built around your actual operation.