ITG starts groupage freight traffic with Ukraine

ITG loaded its first groupage truck to Ukraine and signed a cooperation agreement with its partner TMM Express

ITG GmbH Internationale Spedition + Logistik now is offering also a direct groupage service to Ukraine. The first truck departed on April 11 from ITG’s location at Schwaig (Munich Airport) on the way to Kiev. For this new traffic ITG works together with the Ukrainian company TMM Express LLC as partner.

The new service offers at present two weekly departures from Schwaig (Tuesday and Friday) each Tuesday and Saturday from Kiev westwards. The transit time between the hubs takes 60 hours. For the main-leg solely boxtrailers are used. The scheduled roundtrips carry typical groupage cargo and partloads.

In Ukraine, TMM Express runs a nationwide network with 2 depots and 320 distribution vehicles, so that pickup and delivery may be effected overnight within 24 hours. The customs clearance may be preceded at the depot locations or directly at the consignee. Via its European network ITG is connecting all serviced countries, with Schwaig as gateway for shipments to and from Ukraine. This way whole Europe gets connected with Ukraine. Furthermore TMM Express is offering junctions to the neighbour states Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus and the south-west part of Russia.

Despite the currently tense political situation in Ukraine, it was no question for both partners ITG and TMM to start this cooperation as planned.

“TMM Express has many years of experience in the groupage and express business. The company is well established in the Ukrainian market and an ideal partner“, says ITG’s general manager Andreas Weiss. After opening its own subsidiary at Moscow in 2012, for ITG this is a further strategic step to expand the business with Eastern Europe. Beside the connection from Western Europe with the Ukraine also intercontinental direct traffic from Asia to Eastern Europe are in the focus.

TMM Express was established in 2008 in Ukraine and has currently more than 900 employees. The company has two hubs and 24 own ofices as well as many agents representing it across Ukraine.

ITG GmbH – Internationale Spedition + Logistik headquartered in Schwaig at the Munich airport is a medium-sized logistics provider, running 14 own locations and eight logistics centres in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, the US and in Russia. Together with a network of more than 200 agencies and partners, ITG offers forwarding services in European land transport as well as global air and ocean freight, customs handling and contract logistics. These services are ranging from storage and order-picking to value-added services such as quality control, packing and mounting, textile processing and sewing services as well as returns handling. The service provider has special competence in the fashion, sports, cosmetics and luxury goods industries. With about 1,000 employees ITG achieved net sales of EUR 154 million in the 2013 financial year.

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Quelle: LogEastics
Portal: www.logistik-express.com