In the 2024 European Transport Award for Sustainability (Europäischer Transportpreis für Nachhaltigkeit, ETPN) Contargo was honoured on 30 November with third place in the Special Award for “Transport Enterprises and Forwarders”.
On 23 November there were smiling faces at the award ceremony in Düsseldorf for the German Sustainability Award Enterprises 2023. The Contargo team received the winner’s trophy in the sector of Transport and Logistics in the Mobility category.
In October, Contargo simultaneously received two prestigious awards for its sustainable activities: The Sustainable Impact Award and the Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis.
On 1 September 2023, Contargo Road Logistics took over the Dutch transport company HE-Logistics B.V. With this move Contargo is further expanding its position in container direct trucking within the Benelux states.
A bidding consortium composed of container hinterland logistics network Contargo, SFI GmbH and the Ziegler Group has been successful in a Europe-wide call for tender for operation of the new bimodal container terminal in Straubing-Sand. On 30 August the bidders’ newly-founded joint enterprise, Contargo Combitrac Straubing-Sand GmbH, signed the business lease agreement for the terminal. The contract for terminal operation is expected to run from the second quarter of 2025.