Bertschi enters global tank container business
Tank container business of Bertschi AG about to be lifted from European and Russian level to global scale
Bertschi AG, a leading provider of logistic services for the chemical industry, based in Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, is about to enter global tank container business. This is the response to the customers’ demand for worldwide services, as the enterprise states.
In the frame of the planned expansion two new locations were established in the first half of 2012; one in China (Bertschi International Freight Forwarding Shanghai Co Ltd) and one in the US (Bertschi North America Inc). The market in the Middle East is covered by Bertschi’s recently established joint venture in Jubail (Saudi Arabia). In a press release the management announces that Bertschi plans to expand its global tank fleet to over 5,000 units by 2015 at the latest.
Bertschi has a strong position in the European and the Russian market for chemical transportations and operates currently a fleet of 15,000 containers and 1,200 trucks. The company has a network of 15 own container terminals and tanker cleaning facilities, spanning from Tarragona in Western Europe to Nizhniy Novgorod, 400 kilometres in the east of Moscow.
In their daily business Bertschi AG is specialising on liquid and pourable products (mainly for the chemical industry) and is the leader for combined transport in Europe by their own account. Established in 1956 the family enterprise has 2,000 employees at 48 subsidiaries in 21 countries in Europe, Russia, Turkey, the Middle East as well as in China and the US. They generated a turnover at EUR 510 million in 2011.
Quelle: LogEastics
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