SACO Shipping GmbH
SACO Shipping GmbH is a German Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH) registered with the Handelsregister (Commercial Register) at the District Court (Amtsgericht) of Hamburg under number HRB 40128. The company was incorporated on 21 June 1988 and its registered office is at Wollkämmereistraße 1, 21107 Hamburg, Germany. Its current status on the register is active; an active registration status confirms only that no dissolution or deletion procedure has been recorded and is not, on its own, evidence that the company is currently trading.
Handelsregister filings describe SACO Shipping GmbH’s registered business purpose as the representation of international carriers and NVOCC (non-vessel-operating common carrier) companies, and the taking-over of agencies of international transport companies and of a shipping line. Consistent with that purpose, SACO Shipping GmbH’s own website describes the business as a neutral NVOCC arranging less-than-container-load (LCL) and full-container-load (FCL) ocean-freight imports and exports, together with oversized- and dangerous-goods handling, customs clearance, cargo insurance, packaging, storage and electronic bill-of-lading (eBL) processing. The company states that it serves freight forwarders exclusively rather than competing with them, describing this positioning as its “100% Neutrality” model, and refers to membership of the World Wide Alliance (WWA) freight-forwarder network.
SACO Shipping GmbH’s registered share capital was increased from 180,000 EUR to 500,000 EUR in 2006, and its registered address changed from Indiastraße 5 to its current Wollkämmereistraße 1 address in 2013, according to Hamburg Handelsregister filing history. The company operates from sites in Hamburg and Bremen, and its published materials refer to a worldwide agency network without giving country-by-country figures; no reliably sourced, entity-level revenue or employee count for SACO Shipping GmbH was located for this profile.
- Company fundamentals
- Corporate linkage & group structures
- Digitized company financials
- Firmographics — websites, social profiles, revenue and employee estimates
Shareholders
Shareholders of SACO Shipping GmbH
The on-file registry extract for SACO Shipping GmbH (HRB 40128, Hamburg) does not list any shareholder name; it notes only that shareholder and beneficial-ownership filings for German companies are lodged with the Handelsregister and the Transparenzregister (the German central beneficial-ownership register), and may not appear here if such a filing has not been retrieved. An independent Handelsregister-citing registry service (North Data, retrieved 17 September 2026) confirms that SACO Shipping GmbH has exactly one recorded shareholder on file, but that shareholder’s name, shareholding percentage and nominal share value are held behind that service’s paid-subscription tier and could not be independently verified for this profile. No shareholder name, percentage, share class or holding date could be confirmed from a source accessible for this review. The company’s registered share capital was raised from 180,000 EUR to 500,000 EUR in 2006, per Hamburg Handelsregister filing history, but this figure does not by itself indicate how that capital is currently divided among shareholders.
Data availability
Shareholder disclosure for SACO Shipping GmbH is Restricted. Germany requires GmbH shareholder lists (Gesellschafterliste) to be filed with the Handelsregister and beneficial owners to be filed with the Transparenzregister, but neither register publishes shareholder identity or percentage data free of charge, and a full extract was not accessible for this review. This is not evidence that the company has no shareholders or no identifiable ultimate beneficial owner.
Sources
- Handelsregister (Commercial Register), Amtsgericht Hamburg — HRB 40128 extract, on file, last synced 11 August 2026.
- North Data — SACO Shipping GmbH, Hamburg, HRB 40128, retrieved 17 September 2026.
Officers
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Directors and officers of SACO Shipping GmbH
The stored registry extract for SACO Shipping GmbH (Handelsregister-sourced, as synced 11 August 2026) records 26 total officer entries, of which 5 are retained in the profile’s structured data: Harald Pahl (Managing Director, appointed 1 February 2002, recorded status: no longer active), Norman Vogt (Officer, appointed 3 February 2020, recorded status: active), Uwe Schweele (Officer, appointed 9 April 2008, recorded status: no longer active), Sönke Thomas Werner Briks (Officer, recorded status: active, appointment date not on file) and Thomas Birkner (Officer, appointed 8 August 2003, resigned 26 September 2019). This stored extract is a partial snapshot and does not display the register’s full officer history. An independent Handelsregister-citing source (North Data, retrieved 17 September 2026) shows a more recent management structure of one board chair, four managing directors and 14 authorised signatories (Prokuristen), and separately records Sönke Th. W. Briks, Jannik Pahl and Kevin Pahl as managing directors effective 1 July 2025, with Christian Wahl recorded as having left the managing-director role on 30 July 2025; these specific 2025 appointment dates rest on that single source and have not been independently cross-verified. A Hamburg Handelsregister filing (via an online-Handelsregister extract, retrieved 17 September 2026) separately confirms that Jannik Pahl and Kevin Pahl, both of Hamburg, were granted individual power of attorney (Einzelprokura) effective 23 June 2022. Nationality is not disclosed for any officer in the sources reviewed.
Recent officer changes
Jannik Pahl and Kevin Pahl were granted individual power of attorney (Einzelprokura) effective 23 June 2022 (source: Hamburg Handelsregister filing history). Per North Data’s Handelsregister-sourced extract, Sönke Th. W. Briks, Jannik Pahl and Kevin Pahl were appointed managing directors effective 1 July 2025, and Christian Wahl left the managing-director role effective 30 July 2025.
Data availability
Officer information for this jurisdiction is Partial. The stored registry extract used elsewhere in this profile retains only 5 of 26 recorded officer entries and predates the 2025 management changes identified through an independent registry-citing source. Nationality and occupation are not publicly disclosed for German company officers in the sources reviewed.
Sources
- Handelsregister (Commercial Register), Amtsgericht Hamburg — HRB 40128 extract, on file, last synced 11 August 2026.
- North Data — SACO Shipping GmbH, Hamburg, HRB 40128, retrieved 17 September 2026.
- Online-Handelsregister.de — Handelsregisterauszug HRB 40128, retrieved 17 September 2026.
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register), including entries the profile above does not cover.
Group Structure
Group structure of SACO Shipping GmbH
SACO Shipping GmbH sits at the top of its own corporate structure; no source reviewed for this profile identifies a parent company above it. The stored registry-linked ownership tree (Handelsregister-sourced, as synced 11 August 2026) records eight subsidiaries directly or indirectly linked to SACO Shipping GmbH across five jurisdictions: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. This is independently corroborated by North Data’s Handelsregister-derived network view, which likewise records eight active shareholdings held by SACO Shipping GmbH, including subsidiaries in Austria and Switzerland (retrieved 17 September 2026). The structure includes a Swiss entity of the same name, an Austrian entity of the same name which itself has registered branch offices in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and several German and Benelux packing, air-freight and consolidation entities. None of the sources reviewed disclose an ownership or voting percentage for any of these relationships, so no effective ownership stake can be calculated. This list should not be read as complete: entities become visible in a filed-shareholding tree only where a shareholding has actually been registered, so holdings in jurisdictions that do not require or capture that filing may not appear. SACO Shipping GmbH’s own website separately refers to a “SACO Group” and to affiliated names such as SACO Shipping Line, SSC Consolidation and the World Wide Alliance (WWA) freight-forwarder network; none of these could be matched to a specific registered legal entity, registration number or jurisdiction from the sources reviewed, so they are treated as possible relationships (unverified) rather than confirmed corporate links.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SACO Shipping GmbH | Switzerland | CHE-114.130.052 | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| ATS Handelsges. mbH | Germany | HRB 174826 (Hamburg) | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| PCH Packing Center Hamburg GmbH | Germany | HRB 54215 (Hamburg) | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| PPS Project & Packaging Solutions GmbH | Germany | HRB 62025 (Hamburg) | Indirect subsidiary (via PCH Packing Center Hamburg GmbH) | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| CPS Conpac Port Service GmbH | Germany | HRB 39750 (Hamburg) | Indirect subsidiary (via PCH Packing Center Hamburg GmbH) | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| SACO Shipping GmbH | Austria | FN 277524z | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| SACO Shipping GmbH Magyarorszagi Fióktelepe | Hungary | 22550802242 | Branch (of the Austrian subsidiary) | Not applicable (branch, not a separate legal entity) | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| SACO Shipping GmbH, organizacna zlozka | Slovakia | 46829687 | Branch (of the Austrian subsidiary) | Not applicable (branch, not a separate legal entity) | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| SACO Shipping GmbH, organizacní slozka | Czech Republic | 27571424 | Branch (of the Austrian subsidiary) | Not applicable (branch, not a separate legal entity) | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| Sacoair | Belgium | BE0432759560 | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| SACO Air GmbH | Germany | HRB 13740 (Kiel) | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| PCG Packing Center GVZ-Bremen GmbH | Germany | HRB 24493 (Bremen) | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
| SACO AIR B.V. | Netherlands | 34075153 | Direct subsidiary | Ownership percentage not disclosed | Active | 2026-08-11 |
Data availability
Corporate-linkage information for SACO Shipping GmbH is Partial. The stored Handelsregister-sourced ownership tree identifies eight related entities across five jurisdictions but does not disclose ownership or voting percentages for any of them, and does not indicate whether every filed shareholding held by or in SACO Shipping GmbH has been captured. Unverified affiliate names referenced on the company’s own website (SACO Group, SACO Shipping Line, SSC Consolidation, WWA) are not included in the table above because they could not be matched to a specific registered legal entity.
Sources
- Handelsregister (Commercial Register), Amtsgericht Hamburg — group/shareholding data on file, last synced 11 August 2026.
- North Data — SACO Shipping GmbH, Hamburg, HRB 40128, retrieved 17 September 2026.
- SACO Shipping official website, retrieved 17 September 2026.
SACO Shipping GmbH
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the legal name and registration number of SACO Shipping GmbH?
The legal name is SACO Shipping GmbH, registered with the Handelsregister at the District Court (Amtsgericht) of Hamburg under HRB 40128.
What is SACO Shipping GmbH's current registration status?
SACO Shipping GmbH is listed as active on the Hamburg Handelsregister as of the most recent retrieval (17 September 2026). Active status reflects registration only and is not confirmation of ongoing trading activity.
When was SACO Shipping GmbH incorporated?
SACO Shipping GmbH was incorporated on 21 June 1988, per the Hamburg Handelsregister, and this date is independently confirmed by the online-Handelsregister.de registry extract.
What is SACO Shipping GmbH's registered address?
Its registered office is at Wollkämmereistraße 1, 21107 Hamburg, Germany. The company's registered address was previously Indiastraße 5, Hamburg, before a 2013 change.
What does SACO Shipping GmbH do?
Handelsregister filings describe its purpose as representing international carriers and NVOCC companies and taking over agencies of transport companies and a shipping line. Its own website describes a neutral NVOCC offering LCL/FCL ocean freight, oversized and dangerous goods handling, customs clearance, insurance, packaging, storage and electronic bill-of-lading services to freight forwarders.
Who are the shareholders of SACO Shipping GmbH?
Shareholder disclosure is Restricted. No shareholder name or percentage could be verified from the sources accessible for this profile; North Data confirms one shareholder is on file but its identity and holding are behind a paid subscription.
Does SACO Shipping GmbH have a verified ultimate beneficial owner?
No verified ultimate beneficial owner could be identified from the sources reviewed. This reflects limited public access to German Transparenzregister and Gesellschafterliste filings, not evidence that no UBO exists.
Who manages SACO Shipping GmbH?
The stored registry extract lists Harald Pahl, Norman Vogt, Uwe Schweele, Sönke Thomas Werner Briks and Thomas Birkner among past and present officers. An independent Handelsregister-citing source additionally identifies Sönke Th. W. Briks, Jannik Pahl and Kevin Pahl as managing directors effective 1 July 2025.
Has SACO Shipping GmbH had recent management changes?
Jannik Pahl and Kevin Pahl were granted individual power of attorney (Einzelprokura) effective 23 June 2022. Per North Data's registry extract, both were appointed managing directors effective 1 July 2025 alongside Sönke Th. W. Briks, while Christian Wahl left the managing-director role on 30 July 2025.
Does SACO Shipping GmbH have a parent company?
No. No source reviewed identifies a parent company above SACO Shipping GmbH; it sits at the top of its own recorded corporate structure.
Does SACO Shipping GmbH have subsidiaries?
Yes. The Handelsregister-sourced ownership tree records eight subsidiaries across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, including an Austrian entity with its own branch offices in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Ownership percentages are not disclosed for any of them.
Is SACO Shipping GmbH a publicly listed company?
No. It is a privately registered German GmbH and is not listed on any stock exchange.
What is SACO Shipping GmbH's registered share capital?
Its registered share capital was increased from 180,000 EUR to 500,000 EUR in 2006, according to Hamburg Handelsregister filing history.
What sources were used to verify SACO Shipping GmbH's data?
The Hamburg Handelsregister extract on file, North Data's Handelsregister-derived company and network record, the online-Handelsregister.de registry extract, and SACO Shipping's official website.