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POLYTRA BECOMES MEMBER OF THE FRACHT GROUP OF COMPANIES

With the sale of Polytra to the Swiss Fracht, Baron Maurice Velge will put an end to an era in the maritime and transport sector. The 82-year-old baron will now focus more on the chairs with his name on European values. Following the acquisition of Polytra by Fracht, Flows had a conversation with the former owner, baron Maurice Velge, and his successor Rudolf Reisdorf, CEO and chairman-owner of Fracht. "Since Fracht is also active in project cargo and forwarding, I knew the reputation of the company," says Velge. "For personal reasons, I went looking for a buyer. Within the family...

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CargoX and Fracht AG mix tradition and blockchain to reshape the future of global trade

BILL OF LADING ON BLOCKCHAIN (Hong Kong / Basel – 24 July 2018) - CargoX, the producer of electronic blockchain-based Smart Bill of Lading solution, has signed a partnership agreement with Fracht AG, the independent, Swiss, family-owned company with over 100 offices and more than 1200 employees. This move gives Fracht AG the means to use the CargoX Smart B/L with its business customers. The innovative CargoX Smart B/L platform lets companies issue and handle original bills of lading on the Ethereum blockchain network, facilitating the digital transfer of the ownership of the bill of lading and thus the related...

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REHABILITATION PROJECT BATAAN

STAMM was entrusted with the handling of 39x40' special containers of  out of gauge equipment and an additional of 13'300 kgs of airfreight origin China and USA.   A job well-done in cooperation with  FRACHT Ltd,  Qingdao/China [gallery columns="5" ids="163,164,165,166,167"]

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FWO CEO visits the Philippines

Ruedi Reisdorf, CEO of the FRACHT World Organization visited the Philippines with his family from 5th to 7th August. The 56 years young Executive took a keen interest in the development of Philippine Business and was briefed by the COB Urs Hebeisen of STAMM International. In his address to the staff  he emphasized on the longterm relationship between the two companies and how important friendship as a bases of trust is in our business. Expertise combined with intercultural understanding is and remains the most import asset and that is still people driven.  He thanked all for their support and cooperation....

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FRACHT CREDIT RATING

"Know your partners" is old business wisdom. Trustworthyness starts with credibility and financial standings are an important factor. We are humbly proud to be certified by "dun&bradstreet" with best grade.

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FRACHT worldwide, mourns passing away of its founder and leader

Ruedi Reisdorf senior  10.2.1927 – 17.8.2016 His son and successor Ruedi Reisdorf jun. writes: Dear friends, I have the sad duty to inform you, that my father did not want to continue to live and died peacefully after a short stay in the hospital. He can look back to a long, successful and beautiful life and also if we count the last days, there are few persons only, who enjoyed such a wonderful and healthy life. And at the end, he even had his own will – as usual – that he wanted to leave. If you want so, it...

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FRACHT TAKES AFRICA SERIOUS

FRACHT FWO agreed to a very close co-operation with Polytra in Belgium, who are one of the few specialists for these countries with own offices under experienced European management in these countries. Expanding its reach to handle project cargo this is an important move into a territory so far not much covered by the FWO network. « hese countries are now politically stable and the views for development are rather positive. There are quite a few energy, mining and infrastructural projects, where we would like to participate together with Polytra » the CEO, Ruedy Reisdorf jun stated. The present focus lies on...

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Philippine logistics and business ethics presented in Europe

STAMM  Management (Urs Hebeisen and Doris Torres) attended upon invitation the Fracht World Organization meeting at  Basel/Switzerland, (the home town of our founder and main shareholder) from June 3 to 5 and participated in various workshops and discussion groups on different logistics concepts world-wide. The Philippines presented Logistics 1.0 concepts, the original “delivery by hand” procedure in  modern times. Such rather primitive concepts are still needed in areas with no infrastructure such as pier and roads. Next on the program was a presentation on Corporate social responsibility and business ethics at the FUF-Forum fuer Unternehmer und Fuehrungskraefte (Forum for Enterpreneurs...

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