Global Shipping

What Global Shipping does

Global Shipping, operating legally as Globalsped Internationale Spedition GmbH and trading as GLOBALSPED, is a privately held German freight forwarding company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Saaldorf-Surheim, Bavaria. The company is in its second generation of family ownership under Managing Director Robert Tiefenthaler and operates a branch office in Salzburg, Austria. It specializes in international road freight transport between Europe and a set of structurally demanding destination markets: Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan), the Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia), Eastern Europe (Ukraine), the Middle East (Iraq), and Mongolia. Coverage spans 11 countries served over more than 30 years of operating history.

The company's product portfolio is a full-service freight forwarding stack: FTL (Full Truck Load) direct transports, LTL (Less Than Truck Load) and groupage solutions, temperature-controlled thermo transport, ADR-compliant dangerous goods handling, project logistics for machinery and special loads, and export/import/transit customs clearance. The company holds a GDP (Good Distribution Practice) certification issued by DEKRA for pharmaceutical transport and is a member of FIATA, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations. A multilingual in-house team (German, English, Turkish, Russian, Turkmen, Polish, Albanian, Spanish) coordinates with shippers, consignees, drivers, and customs partners across the corridor. The underlying technology stack is modest and undifferentiated: the website and customer-facing workflows are hosted on Google Cloud (Firebase App Hosting, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions, Firebase Storage), with no proprietary AI, ML, or API surface.

GLOBALSPED runs a sales-led, quote-based business model. Customers—primarily industrial and mechanical engineering firms, with additional exposure to pharma, FMCG, and chemicals/ADR—initiate contact through website transport request forms or direct phone/email, and receive customized, per-shipment pricing. There are no published price lists, no subscription tiers, and no disclosed customer logos. The company has no external funding, no subsidiaries, and no M&A activity; operating capacity appears confined to the 11–50 employee range across two offices.

Name

Global Shipping

Legal name

Globalsped Internationale Spedition GmbH

Website

https://globalsped.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Global Shipping (GLOBALSPED) is a German family-owned freight forwarder specializing in road transport between Europe and Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, offering FTL, LTL, temperature-controlled, ADR, project logistics, and customs clearance services to industrial, pharma, and FMCG shippers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Surheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. International Freight Forwarding Services: Service-based revenue from organizing international freight transport including FTL, LTL, temperature-controlled transport, dangerous goods (ADR), project logistics, and customs clearance for shipments between Europe and Central Asia, Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and Middle East.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Global Shipping (operating as GLOBALSPED) is an international freight forwarding company that organizes road-based transport between Europe and demanding destination markets such as Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Its service portfolio covers Full Truck Load (FTL), Less Than Truck Load (LTL), temperature-controlled transport, ADR/dangerous goods transport, project logistics for machinery and complex loads, and customs clearance (export, import, transit). The company sells end-to-end transport coordination rather than physical carriage assets, leveraging a partner carrier network and in-house customs expertise.

Product overview

GLOBALSPED is an international freight forwarding company offering a unified suite of logistics services focused on demanding destination markets between Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The core product portfolio includes FTL-Komplettladungen (Full Truck Loads) for exclusive vehicle use, LTL-Teilladungen (Less Than Truck Loads) for partial and groupage shipments, Zollabwicklung (Customs Clearance) for export, import and transit procedures, Thermotransporte (Temperature-Controlled Transport) for sensitive goods requiring specific temperature ranges, Gefahrgut/ADR (Dangerous Goods Transport) for ADR-compliant dangerous goods handling, and Projektlogistik (Project Logistics) for complex industrial machinery and equipment transports. These services are designed to work together, providing end-to-end logistics solutions from Europe to challenging international markets with focus on the Central Asian and Caucasus regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FTL-Komplettladungen (Full Truck Loads) Direct truck transports with exclusive vehicle use for secure and plannable supply chains between Europe and demanding destination markets such as Central Asia and the Caucasus. Targeted at shippers needing full-truck capacity with single-tenant loading.
• LTL-Teilladungen (Less Than Truck Load)
• Zollabwicklung (Customs Clearance)
• Thermotransporte (Temperature-Controlled Transport)
• Gefahrgut / ADR (Dangerous Goods Transport)
• Projektlogistik (Project Logistics)

Quantifiable outcome

• Transit times from Germany to Kazakhstan: 10-18 days depending on route and customs handling
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations)coreOthersFIATA membership provides GLOBALSPED with access to international freight forwarding standards, networking opportunities, and industry recognition as a professional freight forwarder. The company is listed as a member on their website footer.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• DSV: Danish-headquartered global freight forwarder with strong European road, air, and sea forwarding following the UTi/Panalpina/Gebrüder Weiss acquisitions. Comparable multi-mode forwarding and acquisition-driven growth strategy; benchmark competitor for European road and CIS corridor traffic.
• DACHSER: German family-owned logistics company operating a large European road freight network plus air/sea forwarding. Overlaps with GLOBALSPED on European trucking arrangement and customs handling, though substantially larger and more diversified by vertical and region.
• DB Schenker: One of Europe's largest freight forwarders (Deutsche Bahn subsidiary), with extensive land, air, and ocean forwarding and recognized CIS/Eastern Europe expertise. Comparable product set (FTL/LTL, customs, project, special cargo) at much larger scale; relevant as a benchmark and indirect competitor.
• Kuehne+Nagel: Swiss-based global Top-3 freight forwarder with deep road, air, and ocean forwarding plus customs and pharma logistics (Kn PharmaChain). Directly comparable service portfolio to GLOBALSPED but at vastly larger scale and broader geographic coverage.

Direct peers

• Hellmann Worldwide Logistics: Osnabrück-headquartered, family-influenced global freight forwarder with strong European road and intercontinental consolidation. Directly comparable to GLOBALSPED's multi-mode forwarding model, just at a much larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Riedel Internationale Spedition: Independent German forwarder specialized in international overland transport, customs, and project logistics. Closely comparable mid-sized privately-held European forwarder operating a similar full-service FTL/LTL/customs model for industrial clients.
• Fracht AG: Swiss-headquartered project logistics and freight forwarding specialist with deep experience in CIS, Central Asia, and Balkans corridors. Direct peer for project logistics and complex international overland transport with similar customer verticals (machinery, industrial).
• Gebrüder Weiss: Family-owned Austrian-headquartered logistics provider with European overland, air, and sea freight forwarding plus customs services. Comparable scope of services (FTL, LTL, customs, ADR) and comparable family-owned governance profile.
• LKW WALTER: Austrian, family-influenced full-truck-load forwarder running consolidated Europe-wide and international road transport with a similar specialist/relationship-led approach. Closely comparable mode (FTL-focused), culture (family-run), and customer base (mid-market industrial shippers).

Emerging players

• DSV Air & Sea (CIS / Central Asia desks): CIS and Central Asia forwarding desks built through DSV's UTi and Panalpina integrations. Same target regions and customer verticals (machinery, FMCG, chemicals, pharma) as GLOBALSPED, but routed through DSV's global network rather than a specialist local partner base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/globalsped-internationale-spedition-gmbh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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