Company
Magazzini Generali con Punto Franco SA
Chiasso
Surface area of 35’000 m2, and 25’000 m2 of warehouses and offices
Stabio
- Surface area of 82’000 m2, and 19’000 m2 of warehouses and offices
Where we are
Our facilities are located at the Italian-Swiss Customs of Chiasso / Como and in Stabio, 2 km from the Italian-Swiss border of Stabio-Gaggiolo / Varese. Both have a railway connection, directly connected to the Gotthard line.
Thanks to the constantly updated instrastructures, we are able to offer our customers weighbridges of up to 60 t., Goods handling and containers with capacities up to 45 t.and the possibility of carrying out intermodal / multimodal traffic on owned transhipment yards.
Our history
The company, founded in 1920 by a group of local business people and representatives of the Municipality of Chiasso, obtained its status as a public utility and general interest service from the Government of Canton Ticino, and the concession to operate a bonded warehouse with an in-house customs office was granted by Federal Government.
Having acquired 35,000m2 of land, the company built a railway siding which was connected to the international cargo station in Chiasso. Engineer Robert Maillart was entrusted with the charge of building the warehouse, which is nowadays still considered a masterpiece of industrial architecture and is regularly visited by professionals and students from all over the world.
The main users of the new structure were the many cigar manufacturers (at that time around 20 in the Canton), wine and cereal traders as well as forwarders. In 1943 the grain silo was inaugurated. With the establishment of the European Common Market international trade saw an unprecedented upturn and in 1961 the Stabio site, which today occupies about 82,000m2, was created.
Both Chiasso and Stabio have seen rapid developments since the seventies. To adapt to changes in the economic environment and in European and Global trade agreements, the company has undergone and is still undergoing an intense program of construction and modernization to standards of infrastructure and technical installations to best satisfy client needs.