Bertschi AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1956 |
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Dürrenäsch , Switzerland
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| management | Jan Arnet ( CEO ) Hans-Jörg Bertschi |
| Number of employees | 3050 |
| sales | 880 million euros |
| Branch | Freight transport / terminals |
| Website | www.bertschi.com |
Bertschi AG is a global logistics service provider for the chemical industry, specializing in liquid and loose, free-flowing products. The company employs 3,050 people in 38 countries worldwide. Bertschi is a family business founded in 1956 with headquarters in Switzerland and an annual turnover of CHF 975 million. The company owns 35,700 tank and silo containers, 1,100 trucks and 30 container terminals.
In Europe, Bertschi is the market leader in intermodal chemical transport by rail and water. For some years now, the company has also developed into a major global provider of tank container transport and additional logistical value-added services for the chemical industry.
history
Founded Bertschi AG by the brothers Hans and Rolf Bertschi in 1956. She specializes in liquid and bulk-chemical transports. The company's headquarters are in Dürrenäsch (Aargau). As a purely family company, Bertschi is concerned about its independence.
In the founding year of Bertschi AG , which had existed as a sole proprietorship since 1956, Bertschi Dürrenäsch, an attempt to carry out transalpine transports by rail arose from the collaboration with the chemical company BASF . The idea failed because of the cooperation between SBB .
Bertschi AG received its first major order from Viscosuisse (now Rhodia SA ) in Emmenbrücke near Lucerne for the transport of special liquid salt from Alsace . An agreement was finally reached with the railways, and in the autumn of 1964 the first Bertschi trucks were driving on the Rolling Road between Basel and Lugano. With numerous regular transports for BASF, Bertschi became a pioneer of combined transport to Italy.
In 1970 Bertschi AG owned 26 trucks and 14 tractor units and employed 47 people.
In 1972, the first rail / road transshipment facility was built at Wohlen station in the canton of Aargau . The Bertschi AG became one of the pioneers of combined transport.
Terminals (selection)
- Busto Arsizio
- Verona
- Rome
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- Stade
- Antwerp
- Schwarzheide ( 51 ° 28 ′ 32.7 ″ N , 13 ° 52 ′ 37.7 ″ E )
- Sandhausen
- Duisburg
today
Today the Bertschi Group employs around 2,980 people and has a fleet of 1,100 tractors and 35,000 transport units. The company is also represented with 62 branches in 38 countries around the world and is a co-founder of the transport company Rail4chem . Bertschi AG, Planzer Transport , Camion-Transport and Galliker Holding want to take a 35% stake in SBB Cargo through Swiss Combi AG . The participation announced at the end of August 2019 still requires the approval of the competition authority . Bertschi holds 10% of the Swiss Combi shares.
literature
- Beat Winterflood: The King of Combi . Last & Kraft, issue 6/2006, p. 18ff. Digitized version , PDF, 2.9 MB, accessed on May 18, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c facts from Switzerland
- ↑ Extended Bertschi KV terminal in Schwarzheide enables new logistical solutions to the east , June 16, 2015
- ^ DKT Duisburg rail terminal expanded again , August 3, 2015
- ↑ Four private partners for SBB Cargo. In: bernerzeitung.ch . August 30, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .