Safety in the supply chain is of a specific importance for Leschaco. To manage it professionally is one of our most important obligations against our customers, employees, partners, and authorities. Moreover a demonstrably high safety standard often also speeds up the handling of a transport – an additional benefit we very gladly provide to our customers.

The acknowledged high safety standards of the Leschaco Group is guaranteed and being further developed by two sets of action. On the one hand we have good contacts to the relevant authorities and we actively cooperate with national and international associations. On the other hand we possess approvals and certificates that guarantee the flawless and border-crossing transport of the goods entrusted to us. These are, among others:

Authorized Economic Operator (AEO)
The World Customs Organisation’s certificate called Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) documents that the AEO is particularly reliable and trustworthy. This accelerates the customs processes and provides safety simplifications.

Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Certificate (C-TPAT)
This certificate of the US customs authorities certifies the safety of the international supply chain or the compliance with the specific US-requirements respectively.

Compliance
The implemented processes guarantee the compliance with the worldwide regulations for hazardous goods, e.g. the IMDG Code, 49CFR, TDG, IATA, ICAO, ADR, RID. We guarantee the compliance with the anti-terror regulation by means of a continuous check of national and international sanctions lists and embargo regulations.

For Leschaco service and quality have been the most important guidelines for 130 years. Both are inseparably connected with our top target: Fulfilling the requirements of our customers – at any time and worldwide. We are proud of what we have achieved – and at the same time we are determined to confirm and further improve our acknowledged high quality level also in the future.

All of our global logistics activities are following the internationally recognized norms DIN/EN/ISO 9001 and 14001. The compliance with these norms is guaranteed by internal and external audits that are carried out in regular intervals in all companies of the Group worldwide.

An important quality factor consists in efficient, transparent, and globally standardized processes. An important basis to fulfil this demand is the systematic further education and the training for our employees.

The quality-mindedness is deeply rooted in the thinking of our employees and in the organizational structure of the company. The quality and environmental manager of the Leschaco Group directly reports to the company management. He has the task of enforcing the compliance with the requirements of the norms.

The Group’s executives are obliged to convey to their employees the quality targets and to actively support them in fulfilling these requirements.

Hazardous materials transports are subject to numerous national and international laws and regulations. And this is just right and proper. But these many regulations are often hard to comprehend for laymen. Leschaco has the necessary expertise and experience because the handling of hazardous goods has been one of our core competences for a long time.

The worldwide Competence Centres with their hazardous goods specialists on the ground guarantee that by using our own software there will be a complete control of all hazardous goods processes.  These specialists are also responsible for the communication with local authorities, with the partners of the supply chain and with the Leschaco network.

We gladly share this knowledge with our customers. They benefit from safe, reliable transports and maximum transparency and they thus get an overview over a special and important segment of transportation.

Our services include the training and consulting in all matters concerning hazardous goods and waste, e.g. classification, packaging, labelling, or documentation.

The quality assurance within the Integrated Management System (IMS) of the Leschaco Group and the external benchmarking help us to know that we are doing a good job. To also provide our customers all over the world with this certainty, we are ready to be constantly examined by neutral parties.

With our national and international certifications and assessments Leschaco’s customers and partners can be sure that they can rely on our service.

In the field of hazardous goods alone we document this safety and reliability by numerous certificates, e.g. SQAS Transport Service (Safety and Quality Assessment System) and the certificates CDI-MPC Freight Forwarding, CDI-MPC Container Freight Station and CDI-MPC Tank Container Operating of the Chemical Distribution Institute.