We are at home in many ports, and our parent company is in Bremen on the Weser River in Überseestadt. As an international logistics company with customers across the world, we offer our services for your commodity at a total of eleven locations in the whole of Europe.
Vollers UK Ltd.
Rougham Industrial Estate
IP30 9ND
Bury St Edmunds
United Kingdom
Vollers UK Ltd.
Rougham Industrial Estate
IP30 9ND
Bury St Edmunds
United Kingdom
Von Kaffee bis Kakao, Metall bis Stückgut - als inhabergeführtes Logistikunternehmen transportieren und lagern wir seit über 80 Jahren die Güter, Waren und Rohstoffe unserer Kunden.
In 1932, Berthold Vollers took the decision to become self-employed as a port inspector and warehouse clerk in the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Based on his activity as a shipping clerk, he had gained comprehensive knowledge on coffee and expertise regarding port, customs and product processing.
The first warehouse was located in Packhaus Am Deich 57/58. Berthold Vollers immediately acquired his former employer Roselius & Co (Coffee-HAG) as his first customer and was allowed to serve it.
During the Second World War, almost all coffee imports were discontinued, and the roasters had almost nothing to roast. Berthold Vollers served in the marine during the War, and when he returned, his workplace had fallen victim to the War. He had nothing left.
When, at the end of the 40s, coffee was imported again, Berthold Vollers revived his company once again and, with a surface of 325 m², he once again rented premises in the new Speicher I.
Berthold Vollers appointed the first commercial employee in 1952. Now, apart from coffee, his port inspection office also started storing canned food.
Lüder Vollers joined his father’s company in 1962, which at this time already had five employees. The purchase of the first own truck in 1965 started the formation of an own vehicle fleet. With the takeover of the neighbouring company Friedrich A. Jantzen in 1967, the desired storage surface became a part of the company, which allowed further growth.
1972 saw the start of construction of Haus 8 in Speicher III. Thereby, the storage space in the port increased to 8,400 m², and the number of Vollers employees had grown to 50 by this time. When Lüder Vollers became the sole company owner in 1978, this resulted in additional company takeovers. Here, for instance, apart from additional storage space, the purchase of Hermann Schwarze GmbH also provided additional business in the field of wool and cotton imports processing and storage.
Due to the increasing utilisation of containers as well as progress in liner shipping, the processes for coffee handling also changed. To do justice to the new requirements, work started in Haus 9 in Speicher III, with an own palletising facility in 1979.
Vollers radius extended: in 1980, the subsidiary was founded in Hamburg where, initially, one employee was responsible for processing the coffee business. In 1982, there was cause for celebration: Vollers turned 50. In the meantime, the company employed 125 people, of which ten were apprentices; a total storage space of 28,000 m² as well as 19 trucks. At this time, almost 90 per cent of Vollers’ services revolved around the handling and storage of green coffee. Other commodities were wool, cotton as well as so-called general cargo, such as East-Asia imports and brand items.
