Cooperating and pooling of forces: On May 1, the Militzer & Münch Group and Andreas Schmid Logistik AG started their joint venture “MMAS Eurasia Logistic GmbH” (MMAS Eurasia). The joint venture offers regular traffics to the Maghreb countries and Turkey.
The joint venture is headquartered at Gersthofen in the Bavarian Augsburg administrative district. Andreas Schmid operates three branch offices in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, and is the regional market leader for domestic truck transports with an area-wide transportation network in Southern Germany.
“With the supplementary capacities offered by the joint venture, we can further develop our international door-to-door services,” says Dr. Lothar Thoma, CEO M&M Militzer & Münch International Holding AG. Since the beginning of May, MMAS Eurasia has been handling several departures per week from Gersthofen to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Turkey.
Marked increase in Maghreb transports
There are excellent perspectives in the Maghreb states. The Maghreb region is an important trade partner especially for the automotive and textile industries. Militzer & Münch is experiencing a sharp increase in transports to this region. The truck traffics between Germany and Morocco for example doubled in the last two years, traffics from and to Tunisia even rose three-fold.
Transit country Turkey
As a transit country between Europe and Asia, Turkey plays an important role for international logistics. “The Turkish government’s investments in the country’s infrastructure are further pushing the demand for transports,” Dr. Lothar Thoma says. In Turkey, the Militzer & Münch Group operates four locations, among others in Istanbul and Izmir.