JCtrans: Would you please make a brief introduction of your company? Karl-Heinz Deininger:C.E.Noerpel was founded in 1881 in Germany and is a leading forwarding company in Germany, especially in South Germany We are running 12 Buisness Units in Germany and employ approx. 1800 people (white and blue-colored) JCtrans:Would you please talk about your core-competitiveness? Karl-Heinz Deininger:Noerpel Core competences Truck-Service within Europe for Full-Truck and Part Load Groupage Service within Europe based with daily departures Warehouse-Logistic – Space for approx. 500.000 Paletts Customs Clearance Service Noerpel did run in 2017 approx. 3,4 million shipments JCtrans: What do you think is the most important thing to run a logistics company? Karl-Heinz Deininger:A stabile network and good educated staff is a major key in Germany JCtrans:Would you please talk about the situation of logistic industry in your country? Karl-Heinz Deininger:Germany is since years in growing economy environment and we are faced with big volumes and a lack of truck drivers to handle the volumes. JCtrans:Would you please talk about your strategy to explore foreign market? Karl-Heinz Deininger:The forth going internationalization was the basic to decide offering our customers as well Airfreight / Sea freight and Train-Service, based on a worldwide Partner Network and punctually cooperation’s. JCtrans: What is the reason that makes you become a GCP member to develop your business? Karl-Heinz Deininger:For us as a medium sized company, it’s very important to have a good network but it’s as well very important to have a secured money transfer JCtrans: How do you maintain a long-term cooperation relationship with your clients? Karl-Heinz Deininger:As Noerpel is a very traditional company, long-term relationship is a the secret of success