Sea Transport Alliance
The Sea Transport Alliance was founded by NAVIS in August 1998, with the on-going aim to optimize services and performance in overseas transportation by close cooperation with partners from Germany, Europe and overseas.
The Sea Transport Alliance:
- An alliance of family-managed transport companies that have maintained their independence
- Concentrates on sea transportation, transportation consulting and import and export management
- Self-organized inland transportation for pre-carriage and on-carriage
- LCL services in over 80 port and inland locations as well as FCL services worldwide
- Shipping via the ports of Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Barcelona and Antwerp
The Sea Transport Alliance range of services cover:
- individual pick-up and prompt on-carriage from and to the sea port
- door-to-door transport
- container services
- container groupage services
- customs clearance and bonded warehousing
- issuance of documents in compliance with letter of credit requirements
- supervision of project shipments, consolidation and shipping
The following German companies are part of the Sea Transport Alliance joint venture:
CRETSCHMAR – NAVIS Seehafen-Spedition GmbH, Hamburg
Joint venture partner since 2000
L.W. Cretschmar GmbH & Co. KG
Located in Düsseldorf
Noerpel – NAVIS GmbH, Hamburg
Joint venture partner since 2007
Noerpel GmbH & Co. KG
Located in Kempten
CRETSCHMAR – NAVIS Española, S.L., Barcelona
Joint venture partner since 2007
Located in Coslada (Madrid), Castellbisbal (Barcelona) and Irun
