History

AUGUST 2011:

Expansion of the team to two full-time employees. The team now comprises 11 employees.

AUGUST 2010:

Relocation to the new company building in Heinrich-Lübke-Straße in Hüsten. An important step for the future of ALS. On top of that, ALS employs a new dispatcher and a new apprentice.

MAY 2010:

Increase to 60 employees in the Transcoop09 forwarding cooperation. The growth enabled developing new markets in project-oriented business.

OCTOBER 2009:

Start of construction of a new, modern office building tailored to the specific requirements of A.L.S with planned completion in August / September 2010.

JULY 2009:

ALS is one of 13 founding members of the Transcoop09 forwarding cooperation. These are basically owner managed, medium-sized forwarders with fleet sizes of 20-80 trucks or direct access to nominal carriers. The goal is to organise domestic and adjoining-country cargo exchange for partial and full loads at a high level of transport. Simultaneous wide-coverage transfer facilities with highly varied equipment.

2007:

Restructuring of the staff in the team which in September 2008 is expanded again with another dispatcher and now has six full-time, two part-time and one apprentice working in the pure shipping area.

MAY 2006:

Sudden death of the co-partner Helmut Schulte; at nearly the same time one of the yearlong employees leaves for health reasons and in the following year a yearlong dispatcher goes into retirement.

2002:

An additional dispatcher and a dispatching assistant are employed.

BEGINNING OF 2000:

Establishment of a transshipment store in an industrial area a few kilometres away with excellent highway connections.

1997:

One very special event in the history of ALS was transporting the BVB World Cup to Berlin. The Federal Chancellor at that time, Gerhard Schröder, took delivery of it for a state visit.

SINCE 1994:

In the coming years, expansion of the ALS team with apprentices and part-time workers.

JANUARY 1994:

Relocation to a larger office building with now approx. 180 sq m floor space.

SPRING 1992:

The ALS team is expanded by employing another dispatcher and a sales representative. An additional two offices are rented in the same commercial building.

AUGUST 1990 AND AUGUST 1991:

ALS invests in training young forwarder talent and employs apprentices.

JANUARY 1990:

Expansion of the domestic traffic after the opening of the border in all aspects with the speciality of specifically transporting "sensitive and fixed deadline goods".

01/10/1989:

Founding of A.L.S.-Spedition GmbH by the forwarding agents Helmut Schulte and Christoph Dahlmann, who had previously managed the international shippers Hermann Ludwig GmbH, Hamburg together. Start with a total of 4 employees. Objective: European surface transport and global overseas traffic along with domestic German traffic towards north Germany with links to the sea ports.