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NETWORK: CORPORATE HISTORY Phileas Fogg was in a hurry. In Jules Verne’s novel, he travelled around the world in 80 days. Dachser has followed the same route – but over a period of 80 years. Landmarks of success. 20 DACHSER magazine Around the world in 80 years By separating boxes from trucks, Dachser paved the way to future-pointing logistics
h 15 September 1950. Etienne Westling, aged 27, opens Dachser’s new export department in Kempten. His first order is to dispatch a parcel from Pfronten to Zurich. In the subsequent months, more and more international orders follow, with destinations in Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. In Germany, it’s the time of the “economic miracle”. The upswing is reflected in growing exports to countries around the world. Dachser’s journey round the world begins. By 1953, Westling already has enough work to keep a staff of 12 busy. Not only is the size of the department increasing, but so are tonnages. For example, 3,000 tonnes of steel are transported from southern Germany to Finland, or church bells from Kempten to Hamburg, and from there by ship to Rio de Janeiro. It’s during this boom period that intercontinental business also takes off. In 1951, Dachser is the first air freight forwarder to open a 25-square-metre office at Munich Riem airport. This is soon followed through Dachser’s newly established air transport service by a second office in Stuttgart in 1954 and a third in Frankfurt a year later. Containers conquer the world Transport services increasingly determine the pulse of the economy. Two giant, unassuming metal boxes change the world: swap bodies and containers. At the end of the sixties, Dachser develops the swap body system featuring removable transport units attached to trailer chassis, and up to 1971 introduces it across the company. This makes it possible to speed up and lower the cost of transport operations. Separating boxes from trucks is almost as important for overland transport as the introduction of sea freight containers is in shipping. Their triumphant success begins in Germany on 6 May 1966, when the first container ships dock at the port of Bremen and, soon after, in Hamburg. Just one year later, almost all Dachser branches operate regular container freight services to and from Hamburg. From now on, the destination is the world. Many shipments are destined for the US, where on 1 January 1970, Dachser opens its first office in New York. One by one, new branches are established across the United States. Today, there are ten in all. Development of the American market is still ongoing. In 2010, Dachser Father of success: Thomas Dachser is present with 15 locations of its own in Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Swap bodies and sea freight containers continue to spur the markets today – both in Europe and overseas. Thus in 2010 Dachser also introduces its swap body system in France, where it has been little used to date, giving one of Europe’s key logistics markets a powerful impulse. Globalization box According to experts, the containerization of international goods flows has not yet peaked. Container ships are becoming bigger and bigger, port basins deeper, demands for onward forwarding of consignments higher. Globalization without containers is unthink- Flexibility is everything: swap bodies and containers are the way forward NETWORK: CORPORATE HISTORY able. They are the medium of globalization – about which French economist Alain Minc comments in an interview with the German news weekly “DIE ZEIT”: “Globalization is to our economies what gravity is to physics. You can’t be for or against it – you simply have to live with it”. Containers have not only brought about a sea change in oceangoing and overland transport culture, they are also instrumental in the emergence of a worldwide system of production and consumption. This fact is underscored by Alexander Klose, author of the book “The Container Principle”: “They are the heart of logistics, which since the 19th century has become integral to all areas of society”. Today, Dachser’s Air & Sea Logistics business segment (established in 1995) currently has a staff of nearly 3,000 who handle everything that needs to be moved by air and sea. Trust in the network On its journey round the world, Dachser by and by establishes its own locations in Europe and later in other regions of the � DACHSER magazine 21
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NETWORK: CORPORATE HISTORY<br />
Phileas Fogg was in a hurry.<br />
In Jules Verne’s novel, he<br />
travelled around the world in<br />
80 days. Dachser has followed<br />
the same route – but over<br />
a period of 80 years.<br />
Landmarks of success.<br />
20 DACHSER magazine<br />
Around the world<br />
in 80 years<br />
By separating boxes from trucks, Dachser<br />
paved the way to future-pointing logistics
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