Oy Backman-Trummer Ab
125 years of expertise in logistics

20 February 2007 marks a milestone in the operations of Oy Backman-Trummer Ab; in February, 125 years will have elapsed since the founding of the company. The transition from a provider of diverse commercial services to a provider of logistics solutions has been a long and complex process.

• 20 February 1882 Waldemar Schauman submits an application to the administration of Nikolainkaupunki (the present City of Vaasa) requesting permission to engage in business in his own name.
• 1898 Georg Boucht, who was appointed the Managing Director of the partnership Waldemar Schauman in 1890, acquires the company.
• 1898 The Estonian-German Eduard Trummer sets up his own agency in Vaasa, E. Trummer .
• 1 January 1908 Lennart Backman, who had been employed by Schauman since 1888, buys  the company from Georg Boucht . Its operations continue under the name Lennart Backman.
• 1914 Trummer’s long-time business partners Jakob Kallis and Alfred Wiklund acquire the business and continue it under the name E. Trummer & C:o Eftr.
• 1954 E. Trummer & C:o Eftr. becomes a member of Wiik & Höglund Group (later KWH Group).
• 1980-1983 Vaasanlaivat-Vasabåtarna (later Oy Wasa line Ab) acquired the shares of Oy Lennart Backman Ab.
• 1988 The partnership E. Trummer & C:o Eftr. is converted into the limited company E. Trummer Ab.
• 1 January 1989 Oy Lennart Backman Ab and E. Trummer Ab combine to form Oy Backman-Trummer Ab, that is owned 50/50 by KWH Group and Oy Wasa Line Ab.
• 2000 KWH Group buys the remaining 50% share in the company from Oy Wasa Line Ab.
• The following companies have joined the Group:
  1989 Oy Blomberg Stevedoring Ab and its subsidiaries (founded 1928)
  1997 Stevena Oy (founded 1982)
  2001 Oy M. Rauanheimo Ab (founded 1884)
  2001 Ab Kristinestads Stevedoring Oy (founded 1950)
• 2009 The port operations of the companies in the Backman-Trummer Group include nearly all the ports on the west coast of Finland from Kalajoki to Hanko.