| 1955 | Ruedi Reisdorf founds FRACHT Ltd., which, to this day, remains an independent family-owned Swiss company. |  |
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| 1960 | The company evolves from a niche Freight Forwarder for the chemical industry and South America specialist to a global player. |
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| 1961 | With the opening of our Kloten office a worldwide airfreight organisation is growing. |
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| 1965 | Opening of our first overseas sales office in New York. |
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| 1976 | With the opening or our Mannheim office, we establish ourselves suceessfully in Germany. The New York office is incorporated. | Mr. Ruedi Reisdorf, Jr. |
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| 1980 | Major contracts: Misurata steel project, Ataturk hydro power plant, Tarbela hydro power plant, gas turbine project Malaysia. |
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| 1990 | We move to new head office accommodations in Basel. |
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| 1992 | ISO 9002 certification by BVQI. |
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| 1995 | First major logistics project with partners in the engineering and pharmaceuticals industries. | |
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| 1996 | Opening of our first subsidiary in Shanghai, China. | |
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| 1997 | Opening of subsidiaries in Great Britain and Sweden. | |
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| 1998 | Opening of our Beijing office. | |
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| 1999 | ISO 14001 environmental management certification by BVQI. | |
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| 2000 | Opening of our logistics division in Switzerland. | |
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| 2001 | Ruedi Reisdorf Sr. hands over executive control to his son Ruedi Reisdorf Jr. | |
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| 2002 | Integration of FRACHT Australia with its 6 offices. | |
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| 2005 | The 50th anniversary of the company, which is still owned and managed by father and son R. Reisdorf. Opening of our Dalian office. | |
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| 2006 | Further expansion of our network with the opening of new branches in the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Rotterdam) and Poland (Warsaw). |
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| 2007 | Founding of Fracht Italia Srl, Fracht France and Fracht (Hong Kong) Ltd., with the opening of our first offices in Milan, Paris and Hong Kong. We also registered our WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise) in Shanghai, China. | |
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| 2008 | Further expansion in Asia with Fracht FWO Logistics Co. Ltd. (Taiwan Branch), Taipei. | |
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| 2009 | Expansion in Eastern Europe. Fracht FWO Czech s.r.o., Ostrava is being founded. |
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