The municipal council says that it will be MSB that will lead the project with the construction.
- It is gratifying that you see the potential in the municipality.
We are strategically located here between two airports, with good connections both by train and by sea, says the chairman of the municipal board Jane Larsson (C).
The first to tell the news about the project was SR P4 Värmland.
Hoping for new jobs
Exactly where the warehouse will contain for equipment or large it will be does not know the municipal council yet but she welcomes the investment to the municipality.
- We hope that it will be able to mean new jobs, but I do not know that at the moment.
A warehouse already exists
MSB already has warehousing and logistics operations in Kristinehamn for national and international operations on behalf of, among others, the EU.
Equipment from here has, according to the municipal council, been used, among other things, in recent floods in Europe and forest fires in Greece.
- The knowledge of how a warehouse like this works already exists in Kristinehamn.
Here you can read more about the EU's logistics service for civilian crisis management operations.