Dublin headquartered Toga Group, which comprises multiple logistics businesses in the UK and Ireland, including Toga Freight Services Ltd and Toga Customs Services Ltd in Ireland, Toga Freight UK, Toga Freight Services (ASIA) LLC in Vietnam and Irish Sea Logistics Ltd in the UK, has joined Europe’s largest logistics network, Astre Europe as shareholder members.
Astre Europe is the central management organisation of Astre Group, which comprises over 160 members, spread across 400 sites, employing over 20,000 staff with combined sales of over €4.2 billion euro, making Astre Europe the largest distribution network in Europe.
The network specializes in tailored transportation and logistics, including the Astre Pallet System (for palletized freight across 46 countries), e-commerce, and industrial logistics.
Astre focuses on eco-responsible transport, with initiatives aimed at reducing carbon footprints through fleet optimization and alternative fuels.
Toga Freight Group becomes the first ever member of Astre in the Republic of Ireland and alongside Toga’s depots in Great Britain, will operate daily departures for import and export palletised “groupage” direct to Astre Pallet System’s hub in Paris.
Speaking about this major investment, Group CEO, Robert Dickinson CMILT explained;
“Since 2022, our presence in Europe has changed beyond recognition. From having 3 partners with weekly departures in 2022, we now load over 120 groupage trailers and containers every week alongside 23 valued partners right across Europe, from Porto in the West to Sofia in the East and from Helsinki in the North to Alicante in the South, we have a strong European presence. However, what Astre offers is so much deeper and broader than a simple partner network. Whether it be their tendering support, CSR and sustainability initiatives, Digital services and e-learning academy or their procurement and business development teams, it is a mighty powerful consortium of which we are thrilled to be a part.
“Of course, whilst we will continue to maintain all our existing partner agreements, Astre enables us to offer unique and bespoke import and export services to our large customer base in Great Britain and Ireland and well as to improve our cost effectiveness in trans-European groupage distribution and our growing cross-trade operations”.
Toga Group’s announcement that they have acquired shares in Astre Europe is the 2nd of five new “business units” that will be announced in 2026 and follows the formal opening of Toga Freight Services (Asia) LLC in Vietnam in February 2026.
Toga Freight is exhibiting at Multimodal on stand 7010
