Car-lovers drive COTRA
Meet the team
Our mission
We enable mobility in Switzerland today and tomorrow – with the most reliable vehicle logistics close to our customers.
motivated professionals and apprentices from over twenty countries make up COTRA
vehicles transported every year – from top-flight sports cars to electric city runabouts
of all vehicles on Swiss roads have passed through our loving hands
Values
Strong shared values have been underpinning our business since 1965.
Together
We act as a team and achieve great things together.
Reliable
We keep our promises – to customers, partners, and coworkers.
Confidence
We are respectful, sincere, and our actions speak for themselves.
Sustainable
We act sustainably and continuously reduce our environmental impact.
COTRA Autotransport AG
Founded in Lupfig (Switzerland) in 1965, COTRA Autotransport AG has been a leading provider of innovative solutions and services relating to vehicle logistics and transport for over half a century. Our Europe-wide logistics network and highly trained professionals deliver mobility to your door.
Show sitesIn Rümlang, just by Zurich airport, our our sister company LdC Immobilien AG has been offering our partners in the vehicle service industry a highly efficient infrastructure since 2015: fuelling stations, electric charge points, car wash facilities, tyre servicing and workshop, a parking garage with 800 parking spots and a range of office spaces and workshops.
Deliveries arrive at the logistics centre in Studen by rail and road. Thanks to short travel routes to the compound and customer-tailored processes, we can handle every new arrival quickly and efficiently. Vehicles that cannot be prepared immediately for onward delivery are stored either undercover in our timber parking garage, or on our open parking area. All our storage lots are secure and monitored. We offer a maintenance programme for vehicles in storage, tailored to your individual needs.
Our trucks that transport other vehicles must be in peak condition! This is why we have our own HGV workshop in Strengelbach (Aargau). Next to the maintenance of our own trucks we offer services, repairs and much more for both internal or external customers. As Switzerland's exclusive partner in the Kässbohrer Transport Technik service network, we are also there for warranty, repair and maintenance work on Kässbohrer car transporter bodies.
COTRA Group
The fusion of an Italian company and a Swiss company in 1965 was just the beginning. Over the years, we have evolved through targeted partnerships and mergers to become Switzerland’s leading specialist for vehicle transport and logistics. Today, the COTRA Group has around 300 employees working at over 15 different trades at its five sites.
CARTEC Carrosserie-Technik AG
We are a subsidiary of the COTRA Group and repair damage to the paintwork and glass of your vehicles in our own workshops in Studen (Bern) and Buchs (Aargau).
Wheelnews
Curb damage, flaking paint, or gravel chipping? We’ll repair any light metal rims, whether they are monocolour, mirror polished or bicolour (burnished). A proud CARTEC brand, we are your wheel rim specialists for repairs, upgrades, polishing – or even a spray job.
airportparking.ch
At Zurich airport for over ten years; at Geneva airport since 2019: book your parking spot online, drop off your car and key at the counter – and fly away to a carefree holiday! On your return, your vehicle will be ready for you, ready to go and optionally freshly valeted – just pick up the keys at the counter.
Marc Hodel
Head of customer service
Martha Wächter
Customer service
Gökcen Ruhland
Customer service
Jennifer Ebert
Customer service/damage management
Jean-Marc Padrun
Head of transport department and apprentice training
Nico Stählin
Project manager – transport
Brigitte Müller
Head of HR
Annika Abeln
HR
Jan Züttel
Operations manager vehicle logistics center
Customer and data management Vehicle logistics
Pascal Gloor
Chief Executive Officer
Stefan Zubler
Chief Finance Officer
Edmond Borner
Chief Operation Officer
Solar energy from Studen
Since June 2022, the first stage of our solar power plant in Studen (BE) has been in operation. Across all newer hall rooftops, we generate approximately 650,000 kWh of electricity per year on a surface area of 6,000 m².
Since June 2025, we have also been operating a photovoltaic system on our new re-marketing hall, producing enough electricity to power our electric trucks using self-generated energy. COTRA aims to cover its energy needs as autonomously as possible through renewable sources.
Quality management
We set ourselves high standards and continuously review our quality and processes. To ensure that you, our customers, can also be confident that our work meets the highest of standards, we are audited and certified annually by external certification bodies.
