“There is a growing desire among freight forwarders to organize their own fuel purchases instead of being dependent on price fluctuations and the non-transparent market. With VTM fair, we are offering them precisely this opportunity,” says Stefan Rettberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss Kiss Petrol AG. The L.I.T. Group was therefore the first transport and logistics company to join the network at the beginning of the year. Now Scharf Transport is following suit, offering fuel at a low fixed price at all VTM fair filling stations. The company is also feeding its own filling station, which is currently being built at the Kassel site, into the network. 250,000 liters of diesel and 30,000 liters of Adblue will be available there every day in the future. Drivers can fill up with fuel at five pumps. A video system ensures security on the premises and also protects against theft. The filling station is due to open at the beginning of next year. VTM fair then takes over operations, including purchasing, accounting, invoicing, risk management and controlling. However, the filling station will not only be accessible to members around the clock, seven days a week, but also to companies outside the network.

Scharf Transport has already purchased its own trailer to deliver the fuel. It will travel to the Kassel site twice a day. The aim within the filling station network is to purchase further trailers in order to carry out the transport completely independently in the future. “We also benefit from the fact that our shareholders, such as the L.I.T. Group and Scharf Transport, have a large fleet of vehicles,” says Rettberg.

Further petrol stations are currently under construction and will be connected to the network in the future. For example, the L.I.T. Group is building a filling station at the company’s site in Bremen. New petrol pumps are also planned in Bamberg and Coburg. Rettberg: “We are also modernizing existing petrol stations so that they can cope with the increased operation.” VTM fair has also responded to the growth of the network in terms of personnel. Three new employees have joined the team to help drive the expansion forward.