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Created in 1989 by its current directors, Claude Pigot and Daniel Curutchet, ETR is located in Serres-Castet north of Pau. Over the years, the family business, which today has around forty employees, has specialized in very demanding transport services serving the construction industry (80% of customers) and industry. South of a Nantes-Lyon axis, with daily services to New Aquitaine, Occitanie, the South-East, ETR is dedicated to the transport of machinery, dangerous materials, industrial waste, and the organization exceptional convoys. The Mousset-Jetransporte group, through its subsidiary Avilog, is historically very established in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region with its on-farm transport activities. Frédéric Leblanc, CEO and Karl Briens, general manager, immediately saw the strategic interest of a merger with ETR, to consolidate the positions of the industrial transport division in the South-West region. : “The Mousset-Jetransporte group, through its subsidiaries Nego Transports, Verriere and Pineau, already has extensive know-how in these very specific transports, located in the great North-West. The acquisition of ETR allows us to benefit from solid expertise while deploying new positions in the South-West,” explains Frédéric Leblanc. The transition promises to go smoothly since it is Antoine Brieu, 53 years old, and until now responsible for the operation of, who will take over the management of the company, accompanied for 6 months by Claude Pigot, the one of the two ceding managers. “We already have a team of more than 400 employees on our various sites in the South-West region. We will very quickly allow the ETR team to get to know its new colleagues and I have no doubt that the collaborations will be fruitful,” explains Karl Briend, who led the entire merger operation between the two companies.