With effect from January 1, 2019, Günter Schmarl will take on the management of the Gebrüder Weiss branch in Hall, Tyrol. He is succeeding long-standing Branch Manager Hannes Mayr, who, in a further career step, will take over the management of the Region West at Gebrüder Weiss.

Günter Schmarl has been working in the company for over 30 years and, as Department Manager and then Area Manager, he was quick to be entrusted with managerial responsibility. Since 2009, he has been managing the international land transport area. “Schmarl has demonstrated special skills in the area of employee communication and process orientation,” says Hannes Mayr. As Branch Manager, he is going to be responsible for the three Gebrüder Weiss locations belonging to the Tyrol area: Hall, Wörgl and Innsbruck, with about 250 employees.
Hannes Mayr to become Regional Manager West
For twelve years, Hannes Mayr has been managing Gebrüder Weiss Tyrol, where he has made a decisive contribution to the positive development of Gebrüder Weiss and to establishing the company as a full-service logistics provider within the region. Mayr: “The biggest challenge for me was to develop
Gebrüder Weiss from a medium-sized company to a market leader in Tyrol.” As Regional Manager West it is important to further strengthen and expand market leadership. Region West at Gebrüder Weiss consists of economically important regions of Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Switzerland.
Expanding market leadership in Tyrol
Gebrüder Weiss is seeking to continuously extend all service areas in Tyrol. The company’s focus is on intermodal transports, services for the automotive and heavy industries, as well as the expansion of the platform function for Italian transports. For instance, rail solutions such as Orange Combi Cargo (OCC) are meant to be expanded at the Hall location. The Gebrüder Weiss block train shuttles daily between the Vienna South Freight Center and the railway stations in Hall and Bludenz/Vorarlberg; this year, it celebrates its tenth anniversary. Overall, 22,000 truck transports per year are moved from road to rail, saving 11,000 tons of CO2.