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Chronicle 1928-2010

Over 80 years of Emons Spedition

How Emons has evolved

Emons Forwarding & Logistics - Site plan Cologne 1948

1928

  • First truck

1948

  • First forwarding plant in Cologne

1949

  • First Emons branch establishment in Nuremberg

1952

  • Emons Spedition GmbH set up

1953

  • Branch establishments in Stuttgart, Munich and Freiburg

1955

  • Hive-off of the vehicle fleet to Emons Transporte GmbH

1958

  • Branch establishments in Bayreuth and Villingen

1960

  • Branch establishment in Ratingen

1965

  • Branch establishment in Darmstadt

1969

  • Emons Impex Italiana SpA, Milan
  • Start of combined transport

1970

  • Emons Impex Speditions-Ges. mbH

1981

  • Branch establishment in Verona

1984

  • Emons Transporte AG, Switzerland, Lucerne
  • Expansion by the branch establishments St. Margrethen (1987) and Basel (1993)
  • Branch establishments networked by computer (leased lines)

1989

  • Emons Impex GmbH, Hamburg
  • Start of seaport forwarding operations

1990

  • Start in eastern federal states: Chemnitz and Dresden
  • Later Erfurt, Magdeburg, Neubrandenburg, Leipzig and Berlin
  • Emons Logistik GmbH in Cologne

1992

  • Dial-up connections with first customers

1993

  • Move of the Ratingen branch establishment to the new-build in Mülheim

1994

  • Extensions to the ground-covering German network

1995

  • Extensions to the European network

1996

  • Build-up of Polish traffic
  • Extension of the European network eastward
  • Extension of supply management concepts to nationwide services

1997

  • First outsourcing project Chemnitz
Emons Forwarding & Logistics - Cologne 1948

1998

  • Start of parcel business
  • Build-up of the one-stop shop concept
  • Launch of Roter Punkt®, 24-hour service

1999

  • Emons Verwaltungs GmbH
  • Emons Holding GmbH & Co. KG
  • Launch of the 10 Uhr Express® (10 o’clock) product

2001

  • Internet customer link-up ESIS-K
  • New-build of the Dresden branch

2002

  • Emons East Eastern Europe traffic (Minsk, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Baltics)
  • Branch establishment in Turin

2003

  • Launch of the 12 Uhr Express® product (12 o’clock)
  • SOOO Emons Ekspeditsia in Minsk, Belarus
  • Move of the Mülheim branch establishment to the new-build in Duisburg

2004

  • New-build of the Leipzig branch
  • Launch of the 8:00 Uhr Express® product (8 o’clock)
  • Emons Multitransport, Hamburg and St. Petersburg
  • Launch of Fixpunkt
  • Emons Ukraine GmbH, Kiev
  • Move of the Ludwigsfelde branch to Groß Kienitz

2005

  • New-build of the Cologne branch
  • OOO “Emons Spedition“, Moscow
  • Emons Polska Sp.z o.o., Zgorzelec
  • Emons Spedice s.r.o., Czech Republic
  • OOO “Emons Transport“, Smolensk
  • Launch of Emons Europa Express®

2006

  • Takeover of Kochtransport GmbH, Villingen-Schwenningen
  • Participation in S.E.I. Spedition GmbH, Hamburg
  • Takeover of ABX LOGISTICS (Dtld.) GmbH, Karlsruhe
  • "Emons Spedition Vilnius" UAB, Vilnius

2007

  • Emons Rail Cargo
  • Expansion of our storage facilities (more than 50,000 sq.m. of roofed storage space)

2008

  • S.C. Emons Spedition SRL, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2009

  • Participation in MW Logistica, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • New-build of the Magdeburg branch
  • New-build of the Milan branch
  • 100% participation in S.E.I. Spedition GmbH, Hamburg

2010

  • Emons Polska Sp. z o.o., Świdnica
  • Emons Spedice s.r.o., Brno
  • Emons-Impex-Speditions-GmbH, Bremen
Emons Forwarding & Logistics - Bayreuth branch
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