Sennder: making logistics fit for the future

European digital road freight forwarder sennder, has announced that it has acquired Cars&Cargo, a Dutch-based freight forwarder operating across France and Benelux.

The two companies have joined forces to bring 240 chartered vehicles onto sennder’s digital platform, creating greater capacity that benefits from the transparency and efficiency advantages of sennder’s operating system, sennOS.

The Cars&Cargo’s team will join sennder, with the Founder Bob Snijder continuing as Managing Director of Cars&Cargo.

David Nothacker, Co-Founder and CEO of sennder, said: “sennder has been on a remarkable growth journey, which has included several high profile acquisitions, contributing to us becoming Europe’s leading digital road freight forwarder. 2021 is all about expanding our existing offering to carriers and shippers alike – our acquisition of Cars&Cargo delivers on this objective. We look forward to working with the talented Cars&Cargo team to digitalize its existing fleet and provide a premium service to the Benelux, German and French markets.”

The announcement follows sennder’s partnerships with Michelin and Zeitfracht, acquisitions of Uber Freight Europe and Everoad and, joint venture with Poste Italiane.

Bob Snijder, Managing Director and Founder of Cars&Cargo, said: “I look forward to moving our trucks onto sennder’s operating system, sennOS. We share sennder’s vision, to make logistics fit for the future and we feel digitalizing our chartered fleet aligns our collective goal. With sennder we will give the industry greater access to capacity that’s digitally optimised to run as efficiently as possible – that’s an exciting proposition.“