Bertschi AG

Bertschi AG is a Swiss family-owned logistics company headquartered in Dürrenäsch, Switzerland. The company traces its origins to 1956, when Hans Bertschi founded a transport business and bought its first truck. Bertschi AG itself was established in 1964 by Hans and his brother Rolf. The company remains family-owned, under the ownership of the second and third Bertschi generations. Bertschi serves the chemical sector, specializing in logistics for liquid and dry bulk products. Its stated activities include intermodal transportation by rail, road and water; ISO tank-container transportation; freight management; logistics outsourcing and on-site logistics; containerisation of product streams; and value-added logistics services. Its service areas include liquids, dry bulk, global tank-container transport and tailored logistics solutions. The company describes itself as a leading provider of intermodal chemical transportation in Europe and a global provider of ISO tank transportation and related logistics services. Its European liquids operation handles liquid chemicals, including hazardous goods, and coordinates transport across rail, short-sea and road networks. The company also reports logistics facilities in Europe and Asia. Its website identifies an extensive European network, with terminals and locations across multiple countries, as part of its operating capabilities. Bertschi presents safety, sustainability, customer focus, innovation and social responsibility as central to its approach. For hazardous-goods operations, it highlights investment in employee training and equipment, as well as a group-wide SHEQ program covering safety and training. The company also provides a customer portal for shipment tracking and end-to-end supply-chain visibility.

Bertschi’s history begins in 1956, when Hans Bertschi founded a transport business in Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, as a sole proprietorship and bought its first truck, a Berna. Early work included transporting steel from Germany’s Ruhr region to Aargau in Switzerland and delivering cork locally. In 1959, after winning a contract to transport glue from Ludwigshafen to Switzerland, the company bought its first road tanker, a Saurer. This marked an early step in its development as a specialist in chemical logistics. In 1964, Hans Bertschi persuaded Swiss Federal Railways to support loading trucks onto trains. The resulting Basel-to-Lugano transport is described by the company as the beginning of transalpine intermodal goods transportation. The same year, as the business expanded and required additional technical support, Hans and his brother Rolf founded Bertschi AG Dürrenäsch. The company says it remains family-owned, now by the second and third Bertschi generations. The fleet expanded rapidly in the years after the company’s establishment: the company history records 14 trucks in 1965 and 26 trucks and 14 tractors by 1970. These early developments laid the foundation for Bertschi’s subsequent focus on intermodal transport and chemical logistics. Bertschi describes its present-day business as a global logistics service for the chemical industry, specializing in liquid and dry bulk products. Its activities include European intermodal chemical transportation by rail, road and water, global ISO tank-container transportation, freight management, and logistics facilities in Europe and Asia. The company’s liquids business provides transport and logistics for liquid chemicals, including hazardous goods, and describes its work as encompassing transport planning, secure storage, logistics outsourcing and on-site logistics. Bertschi also presents safety, employee training, equipment investment and sustainability as continuing priorities.

• 1970

  Fleet expansion

• 1965

  Fleet reaches 14 trucks

• 1964

  First intermodal transport and founding of Bertschi AG

• 1959

  First road tanker

• 1956

  Hans Bertschi founds the transport business

A Swiss family-owned specialist logistics provider for the chemical industry, combining intermodal transport with liquid and dry bulk logistics and global ISO tank-container services.

• Bertschi Liquids

  European transport and logistics solutions for liquid chemicals, including hazardous goods, using rail, short-sea and road networks.

• Dry bulk logistics

  Intermodal dry bulk logistics, described on the company homepage as operating throughout Europe.

• Global tank-container transport

  Tank-container transportation around the globe, alongside global freight management and value-added logistics services for the chemical industry.

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4. 4About Bertschi | Bertschi Groupbertschi.com