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About us - Chronicle 1928-2006

Over 75 years of Emons Spedition

How Emons has evolved

Emons Spedition - 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

Emons Spedition - Bayreuth branch
Emons Spedition - Cologne 1948

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
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

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