The History of Heuer Logistics
Today’s Heuer Logistics, with the areas of Heuer Transport Logistics and Heuer Port Logistics, originated from consolidated companies handling and shipping fruits. Originally a part of Atlanta AG, Bremen, in 1998 the group was bought out by Dr. Uwe Mehrtens and in 2003 incorporated in the EBREX Holding group. It was consolidated as a solely logistics orientated venture and integrated as a partner of EBREX. Since 2004/05 the headquarters of Heuer Logistics is situated in Bremerhaven.
Heuer Logistics GmbH & Co. KG, Bremerhaven
Fred Heuer and others founded the company in 1967 and was established as Frucht-Spedition Heuer & Co. in the Bremen European port. At the port, the company dealt with unloading ships and organised the storage and dispatching of pallets and flat cages for general fruit. The shipping of the fruits was carried out with own trucks and the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which provided special wagons for the fruit. At the end of the 1990s, the truck fleet was sold and the company, that was now called Heuer Internationalen Speditions-Gesellschaft mbH and later Heuer Internationalen Speditions-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG started to hire isothermal wagons of the ICF to independently schedule the stock rotation system.
Shortly after that, Heuer Internationale Speditions-Gesellschaft mbh & Co. KG retires from the European port Bremen to transfer its services to its subsidiary companies in Bremerhaven and to take over all holding services, accounting and data processing activities of the group. Until 2004 an office was run in Bremen to exclusively cover European wagon transports. For strategic reasons, in 2008 the company started to trade under a new name: Heuer Logistics GmbH & Co. KG, Bremerhaven. The European wagon transport activities with isothermal wagons of ICF will cease by the end of 2008.
Heuer Transport Logistics GmbH, Bremerhaven
In 2000, FSB Frigo Servie Bremen GmbH, Bremen was set up to specialise on the transport of fruits from European ports by trucks. In 2004, the company headquarters was relocated to Bremerhaven. On the 1st January 2008, the company merged with Heuer Transport Logistics.
In 1995, a Hamburg branch of Heuer Internationale Speditions-Gesellschaft mbH is renamed to Internationale Speditions-Gesellschaft Hamburg mbH. Its main focus is logistic fruit services. The branch offices are located in the freeport of Hamburg. In 2008 the company starts trading under the new name of Heuer Transport Logistics GmbH. The branch in Hamburg remains.
Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Gesellschaft Meyer & Co. GmbH, Bremerhaven
The company was founded 1959 in Bremen and started trading as Speditions-Gesellschaft Meyer & Co. Only 1967, the company, now knows as Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Gesellschaft Meyer & Co. KG, moved to premises in Bremerhaven. The range of services included logistic activities, organisation of banana turnover, but also the support of the crew and maintenance of the ships. When, in 1966, the bananas were delivered in boxes rather than shrubs, the elevators used at the terminal Bückingstrasse (then operated by Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft - BLG) were revolutionary.
In 1984, the reformed Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Gesellschaft moves premises to the newly built F/G-Schuppen of the BLG. The site features a banana turnover plant, five cold storage rooms and an extensive rail network for transport via waggons. In the year of relocation, nearly 350,000 tons of bananas are turned over in Bremerhaven.
At the end of the 1990s, the company takes a risky step and takes over all of the BLG handling and turnover services, as well as the terminal buildings and premises as leaseholder. As a next step, Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Gesellschaft Meyer & Co. GmbH takes over the extensively renovated cranes in the European port and the BLG gantry crane.
Today, the main focus lies on ship clearance in the ports of Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven. During the reorganisation and consolidation of the Heuer Logistics group, the company is responsible for the administation and letting of property and contents. The sister company Heuer Port Logistics GmbH is leasing these assets on a long-term basis.
Heuer Port Logistics GmbH, Bremerhaven
In 1997 Capesspan, BLG and Heuer created the joint venture Portco (Bremerhaven) GmbH in Bremerhaven. Portco takes over the business from Heuer in the European port of Bremen and organises the handling activities for Capespan. Situated next to Schiffahrts- und Speditions-Gesellschaft Meyer & Co. GmbH, Portco operates a rail linked terminal. The terminal can be accessed by ships without the use of locks and river passage at the Weser estuary. In 2001, the company is bought by Heuer Internationale Speditions-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG and started to trade under the new name of Heuer Port Logistics GmbH in 2008.
Heuer Immobilien GmbH
In 1997, the Indigo Grundstücksverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Mainz was founded by Deutsche Anlagen-Leasing Service GmbH. In 2006, the company was acquired by Heuer Internationale Speditions-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, and renamed in the same year to Heuer Immobilien GmbH. All offices were moved to Bremerhaven. The company administers the site which is managed by Heuer Port Logistics GmbH bewirtschaftet.
