DACHSER honoured by the trade journal DVZ, winning the LEO Award in the category “Entrepreneur of the Year”

The trade journal DVZ has presented the LEO Award in the category “Entrepreneur of the Year” to Bernhard Simon, the management spokesman of DACHSER – GRAVELEAU’s parent company since 1999 – and the grandson of Thomas Dachser, who founded the company in 1930.
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DACHSER continues its intercontinental development with the creation of a joint venture with the Dutch company Seacon Logistics [350 employees – turnover of EUR 100 million]

Both partners have a 50% holding in the new company, DACHSER Netherlands Air & Sea Logistics B. V., based in Maastricht. While its primary objective, under General Manager Huub Leurs, will be to promote intercontinental air cargo services, it is also tasked with developing sea cargo services.
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GRAVELEAU-DACHSER Group
in Tunis for the 9th annual Euro-Mediterranean Garment Exhibition, TEXMED.

On 18, 19 and 20 June 2008, GRAVELEAU-DACHSER’s Tunisian subsidiary, based in Tunis and Bennane, will display its transport and logistics expertise alongside representatives of the textiles and clothing industry. A long-standing partner of the industry, with long experience of managing flows in this sector, GRAVELEAU has strong expertise in the issues specific to this sector at global level, and offers state-of-the-art information technology solutions.

GRAVELEAU-DACHSER would be delighted to see you at any time during the Exhibition:

from 10 am to 7 pm
Parc des Expositions du KRAM
TUNIS
www.fkram.com.tn
Stand : A245

Opening of a 10th DACHSER office in the United States, at Cincinnati.

DACHSER began operating in the United States in 1970. At the beginning of May, the company opened a 10th office in North America, at Cincinnati.

Situated just under 10 km from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, this new office brings the group’s transport and logistics expertise to the Ohio, Kentucky, southern Indiana and eastern Michigan catchment area. “This launch is an important step towards achieving our objective of being represented at all major air and sea ports in the United States,” says Frank Guenzerodt, national manager of DACHSER USA. “Further offices are scheduled to be opened during the course of 2008 bringing us ever closer to our clients.”

Situated in the Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky triangle, Cincinnati is an attractive economic location, with 60% of the US population within an hour’s plane ride. This new office links the Cincinnati conurbation – population over two million – to the entire DACHSER network, consisting of almost 300 locations worldwide, including 37 in India and 15 in China. At the end of 2007, let us not forget, DACHSER also set up a joint venture with its Russian partner, Intellect Logistics, based in Moscow and known as “OOO DACHSER”.

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Official opening, at Mouscron, of a new European platform

On 25 September 2007 in the presence of Bernhard Simon, DACHSER’s management spokesman and grandson of the man who founded it in 1930, Thomas DACHSER, the group inaugurated a brand new logistics platform at Mouscron.
Occupying a 35,000 m2 plot, this state-of-the-art, high-security logistics centre provides 8,800 m2 of warehouse space served by 71 gates and employs 150 people. Costing 6.3 million euros, this investment is a clear indication of DACHSER’s ambitions to develop its operations in Belgium, the country of logistics par excellence, at the crossroads of Germany, France and the Netherlands. It also shows the group’s intention to make this location a key European platform to receive and manage goods flows from its customers both in Belgium and further afield. suite >>

CHINA - DACHSER has opened its first logistics warehouse in Asia at Shanghai and its fifteenth Chinese office at Dongguan.

On 1 July 2007, to meet increasing demand for logistics services, DACHSER opened its first logistics warehouse in Asia, in the district of Boashan, Shanghai.
This new high-security logistics location is equipped with DACHSER’s MIKADO software. It has 3,000 m2 of warehouse space with storage capacity for 3,300 pallets.
At the same time, DACHSER has opened a 15th office in China, at Dongguan, which is situated in one of the country’s most important manufacturing regions, producing goods ranging from toys, shoes and furniture to cameras.

New office opening in China

Dachser’s development in China is carrying on with the opening of their 14th office.
With effect from 14th May 2007, a new Dachser branch opened in Dongguan, in the South of China, as a sales and customer service office.
Eric Cheng, the Branch Manager, and his team work to increase Dachser’s activities in Guangdong area and strengthen their position in this country.

Portugal : A branch opening at Coimbra

The very latest hot news from Portugal since 1st April 2007 has been the addition of the third branch to the domestic network. The Coimbra branch proposes a global offering encompassing land, air and sea transport and logistics services.

Dachser invests in India, a key market of the future

Dachser and AFL – one of India’s market leaders – set up a joint venture
At the beginning of February, Dachser set up a joint venture with AFL, one of India’s leading logistics companies. The new company is called AFL DACHSER Pvt. Ltd., and the partners each have a 50% stake. The new company has 495 employees in 30 branches and is headquartered in Mumbai.
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13th Dachser branch opens in China

On 27 December 2006, Dachser opened its 13th branch in China at Suzhou with the aim of reinforcing and promoting its activities in the Yangtze River delta area.
Asia is considered a strong development axis within the group's Air & Sea Logistics division, which is hoping to treble its sales to more than one billion euros by 2011.
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GRAVELEAU presents its expertise in the DIY sector

As a logistics expert in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself), Gardening and Home Improvements sector, GRAVELEAU was present as both a member and partner at the symposium organized by UNIBAL – the National Union for these industries – in Neuilly on 7 December 2006.
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Brazil

Since the beginning of November, the Group's international network has been strengthened by 12 new branches in Latin America as a result of a joint venture with Logimasters, one of Brazil's leading logistics service providers (with sales approaching EUR 40 million). LOGIMASTERS & DACHSER Transportes Nacionais e Internacionais Ltda, a company in which each of the partners holds a 50% share, employs a staff of 245 and is based in Indaiatuba, a city in the south of Brazil, close to Sao Paulo..full story >>

Logistics centre in Morocco


As market leader for overland transport between Morocco and Europe with two sites already in Casablanca and Tangiers, Graveleau Morocco inaugurated the very first logistics centre at Mohammedia on 15 September 2006.full story >>

AIR & SEA OPERATIONS : opening of 11th office in Rennes

The proposed opening of a new AIR/SEA office in the West was an idea that had been going around for a while... This is now a reality with the opening of the Rennes’ air and sea office ; an 11th overseas site in France which will strengthen our sales closeness in an economic fast-growing area. full story >>

GRAVELEAU rewarded for its GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY programme

On 31 May this year in Nantes, the company received the "Special Jury Award" conferred within the framework of the "Global Responsibility Trophies". This competition, co-organized by the Nantes European Business School AUDENCIA and the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, in partnership with the Pays de Loire region, was aimed at honouring regional companies that have committed themselves to adopting corporate responsibility measures in the social and environmental fields.
The jury was impressed by the fact that a forwarding company should be so sensitized and committed to promoting the employment of women in this sector, integrating and keeping disabled people in employment and actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.

GRAVELEAU at AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS : an agency with a unique concept.

Graveleau opened a brand new agency specialized in the dedicated services, named UNIC. Located in the GARONOR logistics park in the municipality of AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS [93], the site enjoys a strategic position, immediately next to ROISSY CDG airport and just 15 km from Paris, with a direct link to the A1 and A3 mortorways. With an operating surface area of 3,170 sq.m. and a team of 17 colleagues, the new site of Aulnay-sous-Bois is dedicated to the complete satisfaction of his customers.