Weiss Rö hlig moves first project cargo shipment from
Hamburg to Taiwan
Taiwan, 9 January 2013
Weiss Röhlig, has successfully completed its first major project cargo shipment of
machinery from Hamburg to Kaohsiung in Taiwan.
The shipment comprised five sets of break bulk pieces ranging from 35 tons to 101 tons.
Weiss Röhlig used two 500 ton cranes with a reach of 40 metres at Port of Kaohsiung to
load on to low bed trailers for onward road transportation to the final inland destination.
“We are delighted that the shipment was on schedule and the project went according to
plan,” said Willie Tseng, Manager, Project Cargo, Weiss Röhlig Taiwan.
Tseng recently joined Weiss Rohlig following 30 years with NYK Line. Tseng has
extensive experience of managing and costing a wide range of multimodal cargo
projects in Taiwan.
Weiss Röhlig has a global network with more than 6,000 employees and 153 branches
in 43 countries. In Asia, the joint venture of Gebrüder Weiss and Röhlig & Co. Holding is
represented at a total of 37 locations in seven countries.
The Gebrü der Weiss Group
With over 4,650 employees and an annual turnover of over one billion euros in 2011,
Gebrüder Weiss ranks among the leading transport and logistics companies in Europe.
In addition to its core business of overland transport, air & sea freight and logistics, the
company also operates a number of highly specialised industry solutions and
subsidiaries under the umbrella of Gebrüder Weiss Holding AG, based in Lauterach
(Vorarlberg, Austria). Having implemented a variety of ecological, economic and social
initiatives, the company, which is still family-owned and has a history going back 500
years, is considered a pioneer in terms of sustainable business.
The Rö hlig group
Röhlig is a Bremen-based transcontinental sea and airfreight forwarding company. With
subsidiaries in Europe, Africa, America and in the Asian/Pacific region, Röhlig is present
in 29 countries and employs a staff of more than 1850.
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