Our company's history
HOMTRANS SERVICE GmbH & Co. KG ROSTOCK is a service company born 1990 during the first hours after the re-unification of Germany. As its roots the present shareholder with the foundation inserted the expert knowledge of the former GDR/DDR’s state forwarding company DEUTRANS, his West German partner and initial shareholder the Hamburg registrated forwarding company AUG. HOMANN, already established in 1875.
Afterwards some remarkable data:
| January 1990 | Joint venture agreement between companies August HOMann and DeuTRANS |
| March 1990 | Official registration as one of the first private Ltd’s in the GDR/DDR |
| November 1992 | Purchase of property in the Dummerstorf business park "Waldeck", near to Rostock |
| October 1994 | DIN ISO 9001 certification by GERMAN LLOYD, Admission as franchisee in the IDS network cooperation |
| Oktober 1994 | Admission as shareholder in the IDS network cooperation |
| November 1997 | Admission as shareholder in the IDS network cooperation |
| May 1998 | Extension of the property to 68,000 sqm |
| May 2001 | Implementation of radio delivery scanning systems |
| January 2002 | Comp. NEVAG becomes major shareholder and exclusive IDS partner in Mecklenburg-Vopommern country |
| March 2003 | The fomer junior shareholder Mr. Gerold Claus acquires all shares of HOMTRANS comp. |
| June 2003 | Opening of the IDS common HUB in Bad Hersfeld |
| September 2005 | Opening of HOMTRANS’ own branch offices in the ports of Mukran (Germany) and St. Petersburg (Russia) in order to complete the forwarding structures towards Russia, CIS and Baltic countries |
| May 2006 | Implementing of new built warehouse with integrated offices (2,000 sqm) in the business park of Beselin near to the HOMTRANS headquarter |
