Köllner Freight Forwarding

	2009	The Köllner freight forwarding agency is a well-established transport specialist for the chemical and the building material industries. 60 employees are working highly motivated and with the primary objective to accomplish even the most specific and ambitious transport requests reliably, safely and according to the customers' demands.
In this way, we have been running our company successfully in national and international freight transportation, thereby continuously enhancing our transport services for more than 50 years:
	1956	Foundation of the company by Walter Köllner as a sole proprietorship Walter Köllner is conducting transports of building materials, fodder and solid fuels by horse and wagon, with a tractor and later with a Unimog
	1959	The first MAN dump truck is ordered and delivered
	1960	Regional transports of building materials and fuels are continued. The fleet is increasing to six vehicles over the years.
	1972	The first chemical tanker truck is procured. The chemical tanker fleet is growing to a total of three trucks.
	1983	A new workshop building is erected on the maintenance and storage facility in Stade-Schnee
	1985	Foundation of the Walter Köllner GmbH Spedition by the two partners Walter Köllner and Dieter Köllner
	1988	Dump truck transports are discontinued. The fleet is adapted to contain only chemical tanker trucks.
	1993	The fleet grows to more than 10 chemical tanker trucks
	1993	A new office building is built on the area of the depot in Stade
	1993	A second pillar is added: Silo transports are conducted for the building industry.
	1996	Awarded by DOW-Chemical as best European carrier for transports conducted for Dow-Chemical
	1996	ISO and SQAS certification for the whole company
	2000	The first trucks are positioned at the company location Merseburg
	2001	Awarded by DOW-Chemical as best local carrier for DOW-Chemical
	2002	Awarded by DOW-Chemical as best local carrier for DOW-Chemical
	2006	Continuous expanding of activities and fleet up to 45 vehicles to date. All vehicles have been equipped with telematic systems