Weiss Rohlig, a provider of logistics services, has launched a new weekly consolidation service between Taiwan and Prague in the Czech Republic.

“There is growing demand for shippers in Taiwan for a weekly scheduled service to the Czech Republic and we decided to launch the consolidation service and we have had an excellent response from our customers” said Holger Stoelker, Managing Director, Taiwan, Weiss Röhlig.

Weiss Röhlig is one of the pioneer companies to offer this service from Taiwan and the first to launch on a weekly basis.

“Our advantage is that Weiss Röhlig has scheduled trucking and rail services from all major European ports into Eastern Europe supported on the ground through our network of offices in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine,” he added.

Gebrüder Weiss is one of Europe’s oldest family-owned transportation and logistics companies. The Weiss family launched a messenger services between Austria and Italy more than 500 years ago.

Weiss-Röhlig, is a joint venture between the Austrian transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss and the Bremen-based freight forwarding company Röhlig, the companies have been represented in the Asian market for more than ten years.

The Gebrüder Weiss branch in Taipei was established in 2007. Taiwan complements the Far East locations within the Hong Kong and China triangle and is an important hub in Asia. Its main areas of business are air and sea freight as well as developing tailor-made transport and logistics solutions. Other services include project logistics and customs clearance.