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Congo: Construction work has started on further Emons school
21.07.2011 - After completion and opening of the Emons secondary school in Kasika, Emons is supporting the Green Helmets organization in setting up and developing a further school in Kamituga. Construction work started in June.

Emons – in brief: July 2011
21.07.2011 - Customs clearance: discontinuation of the IAA Internet-based export declaration as per 1 September 2011 ++ Freeport Hamburg repealed as per 1 January 2013 ++ Austria: truck toll increased as per 1 January 2011 with further rise expected in 2012 ++ Change in Poland's toll charges leading to higher freight costs ++ Emons Spedition delivered public-viewing screen for UEFA Champions festival in Hyde Park

Successful certification of various Emons locations and companies
21.07.2011 - Following in Emons Spedition's footsteps, Emons Multitransport, Emons Impex and S.E.I. Spedition obtained "AEO F" certification. In addition, after the Leipzig branch establishment, Emons Spedition in Dresden, too, received the status of "regulated agent".

Emons Spedition sets up direct transports to Luxembourg
21.07.2011 - Emons Spedition's Bexbach/Saarbrücken branch establishment offers daily direct service to Luxembourg.

Health: Emons again at its sporting best in 2011
21.07.2011 - Emons staff are back at the sports front this year: besides participation in the Thuringian Business Run and the HRS BusinessRun Cologne, there was the"Emons Cup" to play for in the Emons football tournament.

Corporate social responsibility of Emons Spedition
21.07.2011 - For Emons, CSR plays an important role. This is underscored by numerous charitable activities, which are documented here in an overview.

What’s new in the training & promotion of young talents at Emons Spedition
21.07.2011 - Study and training per dual studies: Logistics management ++ Best Azubi 2011: Emons Spedition for the fourth time in a row among the Top Ten of the best companies in the German logistics sector taking trainees ++ Emons receives award for promoting young talent

Emons participates successfully at “TransRussia” and “transport logistic” events
21.07.2011 - This year's participations in the transport logistic trade show in Munich and Moscow's TransRussia fair generated interesting contacts and many enquiries. Emons discussed the obstacles in Russia's transport market, eg the issue of visas, with parliamentary state secretary Dr Andreas Scheuer, among others.

Emons Spedition sets up border office in Frankfurt (Oder) to further develop Eastern European traffic
21.07.2011 - In Świecko on the German-Polish border, Emons has set up a border office to handle all customs formalities and to offer services for Eastern European traffic.

Emons in brief, December 2010
20.12.2010 - Emons Spedition includes Tours as destination in French network
29.12.2011 - International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) publishes 2010 Incoterms
29.12.2011 - Social affairs: Emons Spedition supports food bank of Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel e.V.

Transports for Belarus: By Emons Spedition daily to Minsk
04.10.2010 - Export traffic to Minsk provided the first regular groupage services organized by Emons East. Starting from the original one departure a week, the frequency has been increased to daily departures, which translates into very short runtimes.

Warehouse logistics: Emons Logistik expanding warehousing capacities
04.10.2010 - To meet the rising demand for warehouse-logistics services, Emons has expanded its warehousing capacities by 15%.

Emons – in brief, October 2010
04.10.2010 - Emons Spedition Leipzig receives status of regulated agent
04.10.2010 - Environment: Emons Transporte switches truck fleet to more environmentally-friendly vehicles
04.10.2010 - Emons transports donated animal feed to “Tiere in Not Odenwald e.V.” free of charge
04.10.2010 - Emons Spedition Bayreuth/Himmelkron increases training rate
04.10.2010 - Emons’ sporting side

Sea-freight specialists at Emons Impex Spedition open new location in Bremen
27.07.2010 - Emons Impex Spedition, set up in 1989 with registered office in Hamburg, opened a new branch establishment in Bremen at the start of the year. With the new location in Bremen, Emons Impex Spedition is optimizing its overseas links for worldwide transports.

Emons Spedition takes over Mauter Spedition KG
27.07.2010 - Emons Spedition GmbH in Cologne has taken over all the shares in Mauter Spedition KG at the locations Neustadt-Glewe and Neubrandenburg.

Emons Spedition sets up rail-traffic subsidiary Emons-Rail-Cargo GmbH
27.07.2010 - Since its first container train in September 2006, Emons Rail Cargo has been evolving very handsomely. In the crisis year just past, this project was a firm component in the intermodal hinterland link-up to the Dresden, Leipzig and Erfurt area with € 25,000,000 p.a. and sales revenue of approx. € 7m.

Transports to France: Emons Spedition and Norbert Dentressangle enter into exclusive partnership
27.07.2010 - Thanks to a strategic exclusive partnership with Norbert Dentressangle, Emons Spedition is extending its French activities, offering seven daily general-cargo direct transports between Germany and France.

Emons Spedition consolidating its Europe network with new locations in Poland and Czech Republic
27.07.2010 - With its new locations at Świdnica, Poland and Brno, Czech Republic, Emons Spedition is consolidating its Europe transport network, thus boosting its European activities. Within the scope of its product Emons Europa Express®, it is offering for both countries a 24-hour service, plus transit time.

Russia transports doing nicely at Emons Spedition
27.07.2010 - In 2009, Emons Spedition was able to post sales revenue of some € 18m with its transport logistics services from Europe to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. This target, reckons management, can be surpassed this year, since positive trends have been noted since last autumn.

Moscow: Successful participation of Emons Spedition in TransRussia 2010
27.07.2010 - This year, too, nearly 500 exhibitors from 33 countries participated in the 15th TransRussia held at Moscow from 27 until 30 April 2010. TransRussia is regarded as the biggest international meeting place for the transport and logistics sector in Eastern Europe. As in previous years, Emons rated its tradeshow impact as a success.

BEST APPRENTICE 2010: Emons Spedition for the third time in a row is among the top ten best training companies in Germany’s logistics sector
27.07.2010 - In the Germany-wide knowledge test of commercial apprentices in haulage and logistics services, Emons was able to gain a top-ten placement with slot 7 for the third time in a row. This proves Emons' high training quality.

Emons’ CSR: Managing successfully, acting responsibly
27.07.2010 - Emons' aim is to systematize its corporate social-responsibility activities in an integrated concept by the end of the year.

This year, too, Emons Spedition is supporting the Green Helmets school in Congo
08.03.2010 - To finance the Green Helmets school in Congo, F.W. Könntgen, managing director of international player Emons Spedition, today handed over a cheque for € 10,000 to Green Helmet Chairman Rupert Neudeck.

Emons East helping develop Eastern European markets!
22.12.2009 - Thanks to a ground-covering network, which links all important Eastern European economic hubs, Emons has evolved into a specialist for Eastern Europe traffic.

Emons’ social projects: Germany’s ARD television channel reporting on Emons school in Congo
14.10.2009 - On 25.10.2009 at 5:30 pm, ARD featured a report on the Emons school in Congo in its programme "Gott und die Welt. Nie aufgeben" (God and the world. Never give up).

Emons Spedition receives status as “Authorized Economic Operator” (AEO F)
29.05.2009 - With effect from 20 May 2009, Emons has been accredited the status of "Authorized Economic Operator Full" (AEO F) by the Cologne chief customs office.

Emons Spedition GmbH’s donation projects
10.12.2008 - This year, too, Emons is sponsoring several social projects in the youth support field and furnishing proof of its social responsibility.

Compliance measures at Emons Spedition
02.09.2008 - "Compliance" generally refers to the monitoring of, and adherence to, rules and statutory requirements.

BEST TRAINEE 2007: Tribute is paid to Emons Spedition as the third-best training company in the German logistics sector
07.04.2008 - Emons took third place in the German-wide knowledge test for trainee management assistants in freight forwarding and logistics services.

Emons boosts activities in Greece
14.12.2007 - Emons Spedition has been offering scheduled traffic services to and from Greece since September 2007. The new Greek service was made possible by extending the cooperation with "Supertrans SA", an efficient local logistics company.

With Emons Spedition to Turkey
14.12.2007 - Within the scope of its partnership with Ulusoy, Emons is extending its Turkish service. From now on, Emons customers can ship their merchandise and products to Turkey twice a week.

Emons means business in its responsibility for society, the environment and its staff
14.12.2007 - This year, too, Emons is giving proof of its social commitment: besides participating in various international charity projects, Emons is backing its young talent and the health of its staff. The environmental theme is writ large at Emons: the launch of Emons Rail Cargo this year has put an environmentally-aware combined-transport concept into action.

Border controls for new EU countries abolished
14.12.2007 - Within the scope of the Schengen Agreement, controls on the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia were abolished on 21.12.2007.

Higher toll for trucks as from 1 September 2007
23.08.2007 - With effect from 1 September 2007, the German government is increasing the toll rates charged for German motorways. The average toll will increase 1.1 cent per kilometre to 13.5 cents per kilometre. Depending on the pollutant class and number of axles, this will result in a toll of up to 15.5 cent per kilometre driven on long-distance toll roads.

To Poland in 48 hours – thanks to Emons
19.07.2007 - Emons expands its Poland business and offers a region-wide 48-hour service to Poland. On demand, you can also use our 24-hour service (plus transit time).

Emons Spedition offers a region-wide service, even into the Czech Republic
19.07.2007 - Having consistently expanded our activities in the Czech Republic, setting up four branches in the cities of Chomutov, Decín, Pilsen and Sokolov and establishing strategic partnerships with major local logistics service providers, Emons now offers a region-wide 48-hour service with daily departures and – on demand – a 24-hour service (plus transit time) for the Czech Republic.

International, integrated networks of medium-sized logistics companies Emons points the way!
23.05.2007 - Germany´s logistics sector is in good shape. According to estimates in the study "Top 100 in logistics 2006", over 2.5 million people with 2 million vehicles generated sales growth of 5%, compared with the previous year, and sales revenue of € 180 bn. The contribution made by commercial logistics service providers amounted to slightly less than half the sector´s revenue. After trade and the automotive industry, logistics is the third-largest sector today and, hence, an important economic factor for Germany as a business location.

Emons Spedition Stuttgart opens logistics depot
23.05.2007 - Emons´ Stuttgart-based branch opened a logistics depot in Kornwestheim on 1 April. This move became necessary on account of the successive expansion of our existing logistics business. A new project was started in March already.

Emons Rail Cargo an environment- and cost-aware combined-transport concept
23.05.2007 - At Emons, environment is writ large as an issue in both national and international partial and full loads. In 1969 already, Emons became a founding member of Kombiverkehr GmbH & Co. KG, so that the company was backing low-impact transport systems early on.

TransRussia 2007 – Emons on hand again
23.05.2007 - This year, too, 50 German logistics companies were present at the 12th TransRussia held in Moscow from 27 to 30 March. A total of 415 sector representatives attended the biggest international transport and logistics fair for Russia and its neighbours, displaying their solutions to 15,000 trade visitors.

Austria: Motorway toll increases for trucks
23.05.2007 - Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Transport Minister Werner Faymann have announced a toll increase averaging €ct 22.7 to €ct 26.9 per kilometre, according to a report by VerkehrsRundschau dated 22.05.2007. With a view to lowering the resulting burden, road tax is to be halved, it was said.

Emons takes over ABX Logistics´ Karlsruhe location
10.10.2006 - With effect from 1 September 2006, Emons Spedition took over the Karlsruhe branch of ABX Logistics GmbH. All business activities at the Karlsruhe facility are now being continued by Emons.

Emons Spedition successfully concludes certification and assessment
10.10.2006 - The management system of Emons Cologne was externally audited in August 2006 pursuant to the criteria of DIN EN ISO 9001:2000, 14001:2004 and SQAS (module: Transport Service). The first-time certification in the area of quality and environmental management systems and the assessment under the SQAS module Transport Service were successfully concluded.

With Emons´ new product Europa EXPRESS at your destination in 24 hours
10.10.2006 - Until now, Emons Spedition has been offering the national products Roter Punkt (red dot), Fixpunkt (fixed date), Samstagszustellung (Saturday deliveries) and also 12-Uhr- (12 o´clock), 10-Uhr- (10 o´clock) and 8-Uhr- (8 o´clock) Express.

Customs: AES link-up successfully launched at Emons Spedition
10.10.2006 - As of 1 September 2006 already, Emons linked its IT system to the automated export system (AES) of Germany´s customs authorities and is also offering its customers AES for export consignments via the familiar ATLAS application throughout Germany.

Price increase at Emons accompanied by quality increase
10.10.2006 - According to the updated VerkehrsRundschau price index, a rise in transport prices in Germany´s road-bound traffic must be assumed. Thus, 57% of the 120 polled logistics-service providers and shippers are reckoning with a price increase in coming months. Today already, price rises can be noted in the part-load segment, followed by the pallet and full-load business fields.

New Nordic concept: Emons and Swedish Post Office subsidiary HIT join forces
24.08.2006 - Emons Spedition has been cooperating since May 2006 with the Swedish Post Office subsidiary HIT Sverige, thus gaining direct access to one of the largest Nordic networks. Daily system traffic to Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden as well make for reduced transport times to Nordic destinations and mean greater flexibility for customers.

Definite order increase at Emons Spedition
24.08.2006 - The growth sector logistics has evolved into Germany’s third largest line of business after trade and the automotive industry. The logistics sector reports above-average rises in order intake and sales revenue. Emons has participated in this growth and – taking an average of the most recent months relative to the same period of last year – has posted an over 20% increase in orders.

Training initiative: Emons is at it again!
24.08.2006 - This year, Emons is again supporting the German government’s training initiative "fit for work". In view of the strained situation for training places in Germany, Emons is expanding its apprenticeship capacities and adding 15% training places on offer.

Become a logistics manager (FH) with Emons Spedition
24.08.2006 - Since 2003, Emons has been working together with the European University of Applied Sciences (EUFH) at Bruehl. The EUFH is a state-recognized private university whose business courses lead to an internationally recognized degree in business economics (Diplom-Kaufmann/Kauffrau (FH)) with specialization in logistics management.

Emons supports Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW)
24.08.2006 - For the THW´s summer fête on the fairground at Rudolstadt on 2 June 2006, Emons, as in previous years, made a free loan of a converted swap body to serve as a stage. Over 3,000 visitors attended the event.

Villingen: Emons takes over Kochtransport
28.04.2006 - On 1 February 2006, Emons Spedition GmbH took over the insolvent company Kochtransport GmbH and extended its forwarding and logistics base in Villingen.

Emons goes East – Eastern enlargement, Emons style
28.04.2006 - In addition to companies of its own in the Eastern European area, Emons is now setting up its first Russian transport company with its own equipment in Smolensk.

This year, too, Emons extended an invitation to attend TransRussia 2006
28.04.2006 - Emons was represented again this year at TransRussia, the biggest international transport and logistics exhibition and conference for Russia and its neighbours.

Schwarzwald-Express – Netherlands in 24 hours
28.04.2006 - From the Black Forest economic region, Emons, with bases in Freiburg und VS-Villingen, has been offering a 24-hour delivery service to the economic areas of The Netherlands since March 2006.

Emons Alpen Trans
28.04.2006 - Emons has nine daily direct traffic links between Germany’s economic centres and Austria’s economic regions – from Lower Austria, via Upper Austria and Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol, all the way to Vorarlberg (and back again).

Big family party for the opening of a new Emons location in Cologne
29.09.2005 - Over 1,000 people attended the opening ceremony for the new building of the Emons branch establishment at Cologne-Gremberghoven on 10 September 2005. "We are delighted that so many customers and partners with their families have found their way to us," said head of the branch, Harald Klöckner.

A roof for the Pope: Emons Spedition transports cloud roof for World Youth Day
01.08.2005 - When Pope Benedict XVI on 20 and 21 August welcomes the youth of the world assembled in Cologne, this will be done under a cloud roof which the international logistics service provider Emons Spedition has loaded in Castelnuovo Scrivia, located 100 kilometres south of Milan, and delivered to Marienfeld near Kerpen.