Transport logistics

History
Success story Klumpp + Müller in Kehl, customer satisfaction since 1953

Company

A sense of achievement.
1954 until today

Our mission since time immemorial has been to transport freight from A to B efficiently and safely. It all started in the mid-fifties in Wolfach and St. Georgen in the Black Forest.

The Beginning

1954

Paul Klumpp founds the "Kehler Kraftverkehr GmbH" with branches in Wolfach and St. Georgen.

First Steps

1956

Transshipment hall

First Machine

1963

Construction of our own ship handling facility in the Rhine port of Kehl.

Conversion

1966

the fleet is converted to 7 m swap bodies.

Progressive

1968

First container handling in the port of Kehl

Extension

1971

Construction of the Worms transshipment hall

Change

1975

On 30 November, the company founder Paul Klumpp dies. The management is taken over by his sons Bernhard Klumpp (commercial management) and Dieter Klumpp (technical management) take over.

Pioneer

1980

Introduction of IT

Progress

1984

The container crane facility is approved as a piggyback handling facility for the for combined transport

New building

1990

New building Weststr. transhipment facility with high-bay racking and integrated administration section

Cargoline

1997

Klumpp + Müller becomes contractual partner of the nationwide Cargo Line general cargo cooperation

Certification

1998

First certification

Expansion

1998

Expansion of the high rack to 10,000 storage spaces

New building

2000

New construction of the repair workshop

Expansion

2000

Expansion of the Hafenstrasse site to a total of 44,000 sqm with two ship unloading stations and several sidings

ETK

2006

Foundation of ETK (Euro Terminal Kehl) to bundle container activities in the Container activities in the port of Kehl

Rail connection

2007

Commissioning of a further siding in the transshipment operation Harbour road and now also the possibility of block train handling

Executive Director

2011

Michael Klumpp joins the company as a further Executive director

Expansion

2012

Erection of the 3rd gantry crane with siding

Expansion

2013

Acquisition of weight-optimised vehicles for pulp transport

Anniversary

2014

60th anniversary of the company

Expansion

2014

Expansion of the general cargo handling facility to 3500 sqm

Foundation

2018

Due to the death of Dieter Klumpp in February 2018, the Lotte and Dieter Klumpp Foundation became the majority shareholder of Klumpp + Müller. In this capacity, the foundation is committed to the deceased's of the deceased to continue his life's work as a high-performance, modern logistics company into the future.

Expansion

2019

Construction of a new warehouse on Weststraße with an area of 1,800 m

Executive Director

2022

Alexander Münscher joins the company as a further executive director

Expansion

2022

We are doubling our capacities: Groundbreaking ceremony for second container crane facility.

Anniversary

2023

Klumpp+Müller celebrates its 70th anniversary with customers, business partners and employees

General Manager

2023

Michael Klumpp will retire from the operating business as a shareholder on December 31, 2023.

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Shaping the future

today

The current management team consisting of (from left to right) Michael Klumpp, Alexander Münscher, Michael Reichenecker, Armin Grob, Winfried Reimer is already developing Klumpp & Müller for the forwarding business of the future. The focus here is on ecological transport solutions.