History

Erwin Gooss GmbH & Co. KG | Gooss Logistic GmbH | Cuxhavener Kühlhaus GmbH | Best Harvest GmbH

1. 1999 Axel Stahlbuck, Industrial Engineer for logstics, becomes managing director at Ewin Gooss GmbH & Co. KG
2. 2002 Axel Stahlbuck aquires first shares of the company
3. 2009 Axel Stahlbuck becomes sole shareholder of Ewin Gooss GmbH & Co. KG and its shares in the subsidiaries

1. 1936 Hermann Gooss builts his first storage in Otterndorf. His company is spezialised in trading fruits and vegetables for the regional market.
2. 1968 the first warehouse dedicated for frozen products is errected in Otterndorf. At that time mainly fruits and fruit concentrate are stored in Otterndorf, just a little bit of fish is already stored.
3. 1975 Gooss opens the cold storage in Cuxhaven at the Lentzkai quay directly at the open water of the river Elbe.

1987 Gooss Logistic GmbH has been founded at the Lentzkai site.
Gooss Logistic is spezialised from the very beginning in all services a modern port can offer: import and export handling, EU border inspection post, custom clearance, veterinary services, stevedoring and all other harbor services. Furthermore Gooss Logistic created a partner network for transportation solutions by ship, train and truck to all destinations in Europe, but also to destinations around the world.

Gooss Logistic had been the agency for the norvegian Nor Lines A/S, which offers a weekly service from Norway to Cuxhaven, for many years. 2005 a 1000 m² dry storage was built to also handle general cargo.

2015 Nor Lines A/S switched to Cuxport as they have the needed RoRo terminal for the new series of Nor Lines vessels.

2002 Erwin Gooss GmbH & Co. KG aquired the majority stake in the  Cuxhavener Kühlhaus GmbH, that has been founded in 1960. At a free depth of 8.5 metres independent from the tides reefer and fishing vessels can be unloaded at the 300 metred long quay directlly into the cold stores.

2003 a new cold storages with mobile high racks is opened. 7600 euro pallets with sensitve goods, that can't be stacked, are fiiting into this modern cold store.

In 2015 the cold store technology of the old cold store was also renewed to achieve energy efficiency.

1994 Erwin Gooss and Axel Dinter have founded Best Harvest, specialised in packing and repacking of frozen products. In the beginning mainly fruits, like cherries, are handled. 2007 a project with Iglo is intiating the change to the fish business. Today mainly fish is repacked on five modern packing lines: a end and a top-load card box line, three pillow bag lines and one vacuum chain pack line. Depending on customer demand the service orientated partner Best Harvest is also today changing constantly its portfolio.

Best Harvest is certtified in the standards IFS-, MSC- and Bio, has a german veterinary registration number.

Managing Director: Ralf Böschen