Dietmar Kutta of Acito Logistics bids farewell to retirement

Today, on June 30, 2021, Dietmar Kutta, co-founder and partner of Acito Logistics, Weil am Rhein, bids farewell to retirement after a 50-year career. However, Kutta will not be lounging in a deck chair. He will withdraw from operations, but one or two projects are already waiting in the background.

(Weil am Rhein) Anyone who has been involved in logistics, freight forwarding, and transport in the last 50 years in southern Baden, the southern Alsace, and the northwestern Switzerland region (around Basel), in the tri-border area on the Upper Rhine, will likely have encountered Dietmar Kutta at some point. His network in this region was and is inexhaustible, and with his open demeanor, he was a balanced and fair contact for everyone.

Kutta was also known outside the tri-border area for his activities in general cargo and partner networks. The selection of logistics service providers in the southernmost corner of Baden is not huge, and so people often met there as well.

Over 30 years at Rhenus-Kleyling

He spent the longest time of his career at the freight forwarding company Rhenus-Kleyling. From 1978 to 2009, he worked at this company, becoming managing director in 1989. Due to changes in corporate law and divisions of sectors, the time had come to take on something new.

For Transco, headquartered in Constance, he took over a small branch in Weil am Rhein. In 2014, the opportunity arose for him to become self-employed through a management buyout.

The founding of Acito Logistics

Thus, Kutta, together with partners, founded Acito Logistics GmbH, again based in Weil am Rhein. 27 employees from Transco accompanied him on this new path. After seven years, the company has established itself in the tri-border area – today around 75 employees work in Weil am Rhein and at the logistics center in Efringen-Kirchen. Kutta ensured early on that younger people would follow, so the transition to the current managing directors Ralf Albrecht, Patric Galley, and Francesco Grieco has been smooth. As a partner, he will continue to accompany Acito.

But Kutta will not be sitting idle either. He already has one or two projects in logistics in his sights. However, the daily pressure of a managing director will no longer accompany him.

With Dietmar Kutta, a “rock” of the freight forwarding scene on the Upper Rhine is leaving operational logistics. The nature of the profession he learned has changed, but he has shaped the regional scene until his last day.

Dietmar Kutta began his training as a freight forwarding merchant at the freight forwarding company Mutter in Lörrach in 1971. In 1978, he switched to Rhenus-Kleyling, where he shaped the company for 31 years, serving as managing director from 1989 until his departure in 2009. In 2009, he took over the branch in Weil am Rhein for Transco, and in 2014, he founded Acito Logistics GmbH, of which he will remain a co-partner even after his retirement on June 30, 2021.