Schenker has been in Portugal since 1955, with a staff of 270 people working in Lisbon, Oporto, Covilha and Faro. Since then offering integrated logistics services which provide a range of solutions that can be adjusted to any business area. Based on the European-wide Schenker network of scheduled transport operations all main European economic regions are perfectly linked.

By integrating Spain-Tir, one of the biggest forwarders on the Iberian peninsula, this Portuguese set-up has now even been extended. Spain-Tir has been present in Portugal for more than 20 years through Pantrans, the second freight operator in importance in the market, and leader in land traffic between Portugal and Spain. The Pantrans structure was based on one hundred employees and some 9,000 m² of warehouses in its facilities in Lisbon, Porto and Covilha. In 2006, Pantrans registered an increase by 11, 69 % compared with the previous year.

DB Schenker in Portugal has not only a convincing land service portfolio tailored to your needs, but is also connected to the global logistics solutions involving air- and ocean-freight as well as the respective logistics services. The presence at strategic hubs for the transit of goods provide customers an effective link between operators - highly efficient and reliable.

In short, customers deal with a single company, a single point of contact, which provides all the fundamental services for transport and logistics. It is this commercial prinicple that has proved to be the success from the time Schenker was founded.

Products and services at a glance:

• Consultancy in land transport, air- and ocean-freight, logistics
• Complete solutions tailored to your needs
• Specialists in a wide variety of fields including the industry focus on automotive, cosmetics, advanced technology, chemistry and health products
• Assistance in conducting customers’ operations