Senator International

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Senator International

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legal form GmbH
founding 1984
Seat Hamburg , Germany
management Uwe Kirschbaum, Tim-Oliver Kirschbaum, Berndt Lindenmayer, Magnus Hoop, Christian Speit
Number of employees 1,600 (July 2019)
Branch Logistics and freight forwarding
Website www.senator-international.com

Senator International with its parent company Senator International Spedition GmbH is a logistics and forwarding company . The headquarters are in Hamburg . Worldwide, 1,600 employees work in 65 offices and branches in 18 countries in the corporate network.

Company history

Headquarters of the company in Hamburg-Groß Borstel

Uwe Kirschbaum founded the company in 1984 as Senator Airfreight GmbH in Hamburg. The company has also been offering sea freight services since 1995. 1998 took over Senator Airfreight GmbH , the Inter Forward Air & Sea GmbH . In addition, the company's name was changed to Senator International Spedition GmbH , SENATOR International for short .

In the first five years after it was founded, locations in Munich , Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf were set up in addition to Hamburg . Branch offices in Stuttgart , Nuremberg , Berlin and Mannheim followed by 1995 . In the mid-1990s, a packaging company with locations in Augsburg and Witten (today: Senator International Verpackungs-GmbH ) was also integrated into the company.

The first foreign bases were established in London and Manchester in 1994 . 1999/2000 came in addition to the North Rhine-Westphalian location Münster - Osnabrück ( Ladbergen ) a number of locations in the United States added, namely Houston , Chicago , San Diego , Miami , Atlanta and Los Angeles .

In 2002 Senator International was also represented in Buenos Aires , and from 2003 also in Mexico City . Offices in Schiphol ( Amsterdam ), Shanghai and Singapore followed in 2004. One year later Jakarta was also part of the network of locations. The branches in Hong Kong , Shenzhen , Bangkok and São Paulo followed in 2007, the following year in Santiago de Chile and Xiamen . In Ningbo is Senator International based since 2011th Two more Chinese cities were added in 2012: Qingdao and Chengdu . Beijing and Johannesburg . have been part of the location network since 2013, as has New York. In Heimstetten , the company is located since 2014 in Hannover since 2016. 2016 opened Senator International also its representation in Greenville-Spartanburg , South Carolina . Senator International opened its office in Ulm in 2017, in Chennai in India in 2018 and in Toronto and Hanoi in 2019 .

Together with Andreas Schmid Logistik AG , Senator International founded a joint venture in 2006 , BLS Bavarian Logistics Solutions GmbH .

Services

Senator International offers services in the field of transport logistics. The focus is on shipments by sea and in the air . Further fields of work are logistics , special logistics services for the automotive industry , project forwarding services, event and trade fair logistics, packaging services and insurance. The Sea-Air division arose from the demand for combined sea and air freight services. In addition, a team is available for handling special customs formalities in trade with the United States, as is a special service to meet the requirements of the United States Customs and Border Protection ( Importer Security Filing Program ). Senator International has been offering its own scheduled service from Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN) to Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP) since 2016 using a Boeing 747 F , and since 2018 also to Querétaro ( QRO ). As an alternative to air and sea freight, the company also offers rail transport between Europe and Asia. These have weekly departures and fixed transit times.

Structures and numbers

organization

The largest company is the parent company Senator International Spedition GmbH . The company currently consists primarily of 15 fully consolidated companies with a number of local branches. Senator International Spedition GmbH holds shares in the companies in Europe and Asia .

The Senator International Spedition GmbH currently holds 45% also at the Senator International Holding LLC in Miami. This American holding for its part owns - partly also indirectly - eight investments in seven countries.

The turnover of Senator International Spedition GmbH in 2016 was 381.1 million euros , in 2015 it was 356.8 million euros.

Ownership

Senator International is a family company . Tim-Oliver Kirschbaum, Philipp Christian Kirschbaum and Julia Alexandra Kirschbaum each hold 30 percent, the founder Uwe Kirschbaum holds 10 percent.

Management and employees

Uwe Kirschbaum, Tim-Oliver Kirschbaum, Berndt Lindenmayer, Magnus Hoop and Christian Speit form the management.

In July 2019, the company had around 1,600 employees. Senator International has its own academy for training and further education purposes .

Locations

Senator International is present at the following locations (as of July 2019):

Association memberships

In 2000 Senator International was one of the founders of the WIN ( Worldwide Independent Network Association ). The company is still one of the members of this global industry association.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b See the information in the legal notice on the company website (accessed on October 8, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c information on the website of Senator International . Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Senator International: Our network. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Medium-sized companies close logistics marriage. In: DVZ , No. 95 from August 10, 2006.
  5. ↑ See the information on Senator International. In: Company database who-to-whom. Retrieved July 30, 2016 .
  6. ↑ entry about the Senator Airfreight GmbH in the commercial register notices of 5 September 1998th
  7. ↑ For the location development of the company, see Cargo News , 1/2015, p. 4 f (accessed on July 30, 2016).
  8. ^ A toast to the new hall , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Witten edition), June 18, 2009. Information about Senator International Packaging GmbH. In: www.senatorverpackung.de. Retrieved December 13, 2016 .
  9. ↑ See the forwarding company Senator International is expanding its activities. In: DVZ letter No. 5 of January 30, 2004.
  10. ^ Senator International in China . In: DVZ, No. 50 of April 29, 2004.
  11. ↑ The forwarding company Senator International is expanding its global network . In: DVZ letter No. 37 of September 16, 2005; Senator International in Indonesia . In: DVZ, No. 120 of October 8, 2005.
  12. ↑ Senator International opens office in Hong Kong . In: DVZ , No. 23 of February 22, 2007.
  13. ↑ Senator International starts in Shenzhen . In: DVZ , No. 136 from November 13, 2007.
  14. ^ Senator opens new office in South Africa . In: Shippers Today , Vol. 36, No 2 (March – April 2013).
  15. ↑ Entry in the commercial register dated February 1, 2016.
  16. ↑ Senator International opens a branch in Ulm . In: VerkehrsRundschau , issue 25/2017.
  17. ↑ Senator International: Cargo News 03-2018. September 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Senator International: Cargo News 01-2019. April 2018, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Second branch opened in Vietnam. In: www.senator-international.com. May 24, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019 (Company press release).
  20. ^ Company website .
  21. ↑ Medium-sized companies join forces . In: DVZ , No. 81 from July 8, 2006.
  22. ↑ See the information on the Our Services subpage on the company website (accessed on July 31, 2016).
  23. ↑ Senator International Spedition GmbH: Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 , published in the Federal Gazette on February 18, 2016.
  24. ↑ For this cargo flight connection see Heiner Siegmund: Chapman-Freeborn and Senator International Fly Together. In: www.cargoforwarder.eu. November 6, accessed December 13, 2016 . Trevor Anderson: Senator International's 'bridge' to Germany touches down at GSP. In: Upstate Business Journal. November 6, 2016, accessed December 13, 2016 . Also see the specific information on the company's website (accessed October 10, 2018).
  25. ↑ Senator International: Senator with new own controlled flight. June 18, 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 (Company press release).
  26. ↑ For this rail freight service, see the information on the Asia Rail Bridge , accessed on October 19, 2016.
  27. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements for the financial year from 01/01/2016 to 12/31/2016 . In: Federal Gazette annual financial statements , February 20, 2018.
  28. ↑ Plus customs duties and import sales tax .
  29. ↑ See the company profile of Senator International Spedition GmbH in the beDirect database from May 12, 2016.
  30. ↑ Member of the management since the beginning of 2000. See Senator International Spedition GmbH, Hamburg, has strengthened its management . In: DVZ letter No. 3 of January 21, 2000.
  31. ↑ In the management since July 1, 2010. See Senator International Spedition GmbH: Annual financial statements for the business year from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 , published in the Federal Gazette on December 12, 2011.
  32. ↑ Since January 2018, see Cargo News 01-2018 .
  33. ↑ See the relevant information on the company website (accessed on July 31, 2016).
  34. ↑ See the information under Our Network on the company website (accessed on July 26, 2019).
  35. ↑ 45 medium-sized shipping companies have joined forces to form the Worldwide Independent Network Association (Win) . In: DVZ letter No. 7 of February 18, 2000.
  36. ↑ WIN Network. In: winlogistics.com. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .