Swiss family-run · Est. 1972 · UK Ltd since 2024
Road freight between the UK and Switzerland, every single day.
Daily groupage and full loads, ADR, temperature control and customs clearance on both sides of the border. One family business, two offices, fifty years of the same promise: personal contact and freight that arrives.
- Daily departures
- Customs GB & CH in-house
- ADR & temperature control
What we move
Everything a Swiss-bound shipment needs, under one roof.
From a single pallet on tonight's groupage trailer to an out-of-gauge project load, the same team in Thetford plans it, clears it and tracks it.
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years on the UK–Swiss corridor
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GB trailers a day, in the group's own operation
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offices · Thetford & Birsfelden
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express published for all of Great Britain
The corridor
Thetford to Basel. Door to door, in days.
Switzerland sits outside the EU customs union, which is exactly why having a family office at each end of the road matters. We have run this corridor since 1973.
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Collected across the UK
Our own planning team in Thetford books collections nationwide and consolidates in East Anglia, minutes from Felixstowe and Harwich.
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Cleared on both sides
GB export and CH import declarations prepared in-house with Trans Maritime AG, so trailers roll through the border rather than waiting at it.
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Delivered in Switzerland
From Birsfelden, Trans Maritime AG delivers door to door in Switzerland. The same people stay on the job from collection to POD.
Specialist equipment
Built for the cargo that needs more care.
Reefers, ADR-equipped trailers, mega and jumbo units, all branded, all monitored, all planned by people who know the route by heart.
Trans Maritime UK fleet
Refrigerated, hazardous, heavy. Same orange, same standard.
How it works
Four steps from quote to signed POD.
Tell us about the load
Postcodes, pallets, weight, any ADR or temperature needs. Our quote form captures it all so the first price is the real price.
We collect
Collection is booked anywhere on the UK mainland and consolidated in Thetford, or a dedicated trailer comes straight to you.
We clear
GB export and Swiss import declarations prepared in-house, with duties and VAT handled the way your Incoterms require.
Delivered, with updates
Trans Maritime AG delivers in Switzerland. You get status updates and a signed POD, the supervision the group already publishes for this lane.
Artist's impression of Thetford, Norfolk. A commissioned painting of our UK home marked the opening of the Thetford office in January 2024.
Our heritage
A Swiss family business, fifty years in the making.
Trans Maritime was founded in Basel in 1972 by Fritz Bernhard Walliser. The British service began the following year. In January 2024 the family opened its own UK home in Thetford, Norfolk: Trans Maritime UK Ltd.
“One for all, all for one.”
From the yard
News from Thetford and Basel.
Good to know
Questions we hear every week.
If yours isn't here, call Thetford on 01842 751751. A planner, not a phone tree, will answer.
Ready when you are
Got freight for Switzerland? Tonight's trailer has space.
Send us the details and a real person in Thetford will come back with a firm price, usually within the working day.