About us

With its deep local roots, this company has been managed sustainably and with social competence over the course of the last 45 years. As a result, FERNFRACHT’s foundation has grown stronger every year.

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We are an internationally active freight company with a network of more than 4,000 active business partners.

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With its deep local roots, this company has been managed sustainably and with social competence over the course of the last 45 years.

FERNFRACHT currently employs 30 people in various teams.

The secret of our success

The success of a service company depends largely on the people working in the company. We realised at an early stage that to be consistently successful on the market, fair and straightforward relations among employees must be the highest priority.

We concentrate on what is essential and strive daily to recognise innovations and trends in engineering and technology in their early stages so as to quickly integrate them into the company.

Milestones

1976

Foundation of the company

1976

1986

Acquisition of a networked database (Oracle), restructuring of the financial system, and BEGINNING of the customised development of our freight delivery software.

1986

1994

Certified as an Austrian Model Company with the Austria Quality Seal by the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Quality (OQA)

1994

1995

Beginning of in-house apprenticeships

1995

2009

Renovation of our company headquarters

2009

2010

Beginning the transition to a paperless office: all business processes were documented, restructured, and reproduced in software for document management.

2010

2012

A DWMS (document workflow management system) was successfully integrated through cooperation with Docuware and Eco-Soft GmbH. This milestone allowed us to accelerate the process of digitalisation at all levels of the company.

2012

2013

The company went paperless in all divisions and standard processes were increasingly automated.

2013

2016

We celebrated the 40th anniversary of FERNFRACHT

2016

2018

The Fernfracht platform went live!

2018

2021

We moved to our new office at 6 Straniakstrasse, Salzburg 5020

2021

2022

“Big data”: software was developed to provide a consolidated display of freight flows and logistical processes – vast information was now available at the click of a button.

2022

2023

As of the 1st of April 2023, Fernfracht Gimmelsberger will be renamed FERNFRACHT Logistics.

2023

The FERNFRACHT brand name

Over decades, Fernfracht has established itself as a brand name. We have acquired an excellent reputation thanks to our experience and continuous innovation. We constantly strive to live up to the reputation of the FERNFRACHT brand name through fast decision-making procedures, prompt quotations, careful monitoring of all administrative activities, and continuous further development of the IT landscape.

Management

Roland Gasser, MBA

CEO

Martin Ebner

Freight management

ppa. Sonja Gimmelsberger, MSc

Head of finance and accounting

Certificates

Our awards

Austrian Logistics

Austria Quality Seal

Top 500 companies in Salzburg

Austria's Leading Companies 2023

Sports promotion

For several years now, we have aimed to support young, talented, and motivated athletes from the province of Salzburg with an athletic sponsorship. As a family business based in Salzburg, we see it as our duty to accompany young talents on their career path. We want to help them by being a strong partner in every way possible, including creating a foundation for them in the areas of sportswear, training possibilities, etc. We do not limit ourselves to specific sports or to certain sports with mass appeal. Rather, we also intend to provide a bedrock for athletes in niche sports who have little financial support from the federal and provincial governments. We are currently active in tennis and paragliding.