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Dachser celebrates half century stateside

[ October 23, 2024   //   Chris Lewis ]

Dachser USA Air & Sea Logistics, the US subsidiary of German-owned global logistics provider DACHSER, celebrated its 50^th anniversary on September 16.

The family-owned logistics operator from Germany opened a location in New York in 1974, moving into an overseas region for the first time. Over the decades that followed, Dachser USA expanded its footprint across the country; a presence on the US West Coast followed in 1998, with the opening of an office in Los Angeles, California. Further branches came shortly after, Chicago in 1999, and, among other locations, Charlotte, Boston and Atlanta in 2005. Detroit is the latest addition to the US branch network in, opened in 2018.

In the past two years alone, five US branches have relocated to other facilities within their home region, to accommodate growth or get closer to customers or to logistics infrastructure like airports and ports. In 2023, the Atlanta branch opened a dedicated contract logistics, Dachser’s largest in the US so far in terms of pallet spaces and overall surface.

The company has also continued its expansion in the Americas, with own branches in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru. As of 2023, around 650 employees across 23 locations in the Americas have moved 98,500 shipments totaling 281,400 tons.

Dachser is now seeking to integrate its activities in the Americas with its European Logistics road network, offering single-source door-to-door solutions.

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