Panalpina
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Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG (SWX Symbol: PWTN) | |
Type | Public |
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Founded | 1935 |
Headquarters | Basel, Switzerland |
Key people | Monika Ribar (CEO), Jürg Honegger (CFO), and Jörg Eggenberger (COO) |
Industry | Transport |
Products | Freight Forwarding Services Logistic Services |
Employees | 13,583 (2006) |
Slogan | "A Passion for Solutions" |
Website | www.panalpina.com |
Panalpina is a Swiss provider of forwarding and logistics services, specializing in intercontinental air and ocean freight and associated supply chain management solutions. It operates a network of some 500 branches in more than 80 countries; in a further 60 countries, the group cooperates closely with selected partners. Panalpina employs some 14500 people worldwide.
Panalpina was fully owned by the Ernst Göhner Foundation until its successful public listing on the SWX Swiss Exchange on September 22, 2005. In 2005 Panalpina acquired Janco Oilfield Services in Singapore and Overseas Shipping Group.
In the United States Panalpina has recently begun rolling out Ex Works to their import departments for trucker's POD and invoicing.