Timeline Richard Kempers
Important events in the history of the company
| 1968 | Mr. Richard Kempers (24) starts Internationale Expeditie Richard Kempers BV, in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands |
| 1972 | Mr. Jaap Zittema (future founder of Richard Kempers SA Chiasso in 1984) starts his career as the company’s third employee |
| 1978 | Richard Kempers Den Bosch BV – Middle East transport, warehousing and sea freight |
| 1978 | Movex BV , alliance of Dutch transporters for the purpose of transports on Iraq |
| 1983 | Richard Kempers International BV – transports on Turkey |
| 1984 | Richard Kempers SA, Spedizioni Internazionali in Chiasso, joint partnership of Richard Kempers and Jaap Zittema |
| 1986 | Hucom BV for the purpose of intermodal transport on Italy |
| 1988 | Richard Kempers Den Bosch BV moves to Rotterdam and continues under the name of Richard Kempers BV |
| 1988 | Richard Kempers Holding BV |
| 1989 | Richard Kempers Materieel, Papendrecht. Purchase, sale and maintenance of own fleet |
| 1993 | Purposely build new headquarters in Leeuwarden |
| 1996 | Richard Kempers Holding ceases to exist and Chiasso continues its activities as an independent private company |
| 2003 | Peter Zittema (26), son of Jaap, joins the board of directors |
| 2010 | Richard B. Kempers (18), grandson of the founder, joins our team |
| 2018 | We move to our new office in Balerna |
| 2021 | Barbara Kempers (54), daughter of the founder, joins our team as sales manager |