Fresh Logisticsworking in stronger cooperation with Dachser

The new strategic alliance will enable DACHSER to expand its network for temperature-controlled transport services in eastern Europe. Food Logistics freight services to Poland, the Czech Republic and the Baltic states will from now on be carried out in cooperation with Raben subsidiary Fresh Logistics.

“This partnership enables us to meet our goal to make reliable and standardized services for all temperature ranges in the non-frozen segment available to customers in these eastern European countries,” says Alfred Miller, managing director of European Food Logistics at DACHSER. Daily, precision-timed services to the new transshipment centres in both neighbouring eastern European countries now operate from DACHSER’s Schönefeld (Berlin) and Hof branch offices.

The new partner operates a full-coverage groupage network in all five countries. Consignments from all German points of departure thus reach consignees in Poland or the Czech Republic in just two to three working days, depending on the distance from the respective import platform. Like DACHSER, Fresh Logistics also offers its customers on-demand shipment status information and digitalized delivery documentation.

Through its Fresh Logistics cold chain logistics subsidiary the Raben Group is Poland’s leading food logistics provider. It has a national network of branch offices handling distribution of foodstuffs in all temperature ranges. All Polish retail chains are served on a daily basis. Fresh Logistics employs a staff totalling approx. 600, has 40,000 square metres of temperature-controlled warehouse space and a fleet of over 550 vehicles. The company is certified in compliance with ISO 22000 and ISO 14001 and has a standardized quality management system in place in accordance with ISO 9001.

As a result of the cooperation, Fresh Logistics will become the biggest partner within DACHSER’s European Food Logistics network. “I am pleased that in Raben Group we have found a partner that shares our high standard of delivery quality and striving for standardized, transparent processes,” says managing director Alfred Miller. “Poland comes sixth in the export ranking of the German food industry, and export volumes are continuing to rise. Germany on the other hand is by far the biggest sales market for Polish food exports. Our goal is to mutually tap this potential for transnational transport services.”

Ewald Raben, CEO of the Raben Group: “For Fresh Logistics the opportunity to cooperate in a strong network not only opens the gateway to Poland’s most important trade partner, but at the same time to the whole of northern, western and southern Europe. This also opens up a tnew perspective for our customers.”