Archives for December 2011

Kempten, Dec. 16 2011. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, has created 1,700 new jobs in the course of this year, bringing the company’s total number of employees to just under 21,000.

Bernhard Simon, head of the Dachser management board, points out that the increase in jobs is spread across skilled specialists and executives, as well as a number of operational positions. Simon says: “While everyone is talking these days about the shortage of skilled specialists and executives, we are finding it increasingly difficult to fill vacant operational positions.” Simon anticipates that this could become a problem in future.

Dachser is well known in the industry for offering systematic initial and advanced training, also in the lower collectively agreed wage brackets. In logistics there is also a shortage of truck drivers. The company intends to significantly intensify its driver training and recruiting initiatives in the coming year.

For 2012, Dachser is planning to create new jobs despite the weakening economic environment. Simon says: “The mission to recruit and retain qualified people is part of our long-term strategic orientation – even when the going gets tough.”

Logistics provider receives accreditation as Qualified Envirotainer Provider

Kempten, 15 December 2011. Dachser has been accredited by the Swedish firm Envirotainer to handle air freight transportation of pharmaceutical products in compliance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines. The logistics provider is thus expanding its services for the life sciences industry in the field of active temperature-controlled air freight products.

Pharmaceutical products increasingly have to be transported over very long distances. To ensure they preserve their shelf life and efficacy, they must be maintained at precisely defined temperatures; this calls for good solutions. “We, our customers and the authorities place the highest demands on the transport of these sensitive goods,” explains Thomas Reuter, managing director of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics. This is why Dachser works with Envirotainer. The Swedish firm is market leader in the field of active temperature-controlled air freight containers and has now accredited the logistics provider as a Qualified Envirotainer Provider (QEP). The accreditation initially applies to Dachser’s Frankfurt, Munich, Münster-Osnabrück and Stuttgart facilities. The logistics provider intends to expand its partnership with Envirotainer on a global level.

Envirotainer produces and leases active temperature-controlled air freight containers and is world leader in secure cold chain logistics solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The company offers its QEP programme exclusively to service providers that are capable of properly managing shipments using the Envirotainer container.

In addition to active refrigerated transport of air and sea freight, Dachser offers passive temperature control solutions using validated insulated packaging. Whether active or passive cooling, a temperature record is kept during the entire transport process and automatically made available to the customer.

In 2010, Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.8 billion. 19,250 staff working in 310 profit centres worldwide handled 46.2 million consignments weighing a total of 35.5 million tonnes.