Construction of Warehouses 5 and 6 had been completed and were in operation. After first completing his apprenticeship as a freight forwarding agent in another company, Joachim Leinweber joined the family business Land- & See- Transport as an employee. He spent the first two years up to 1998 studying at the Deutschen Außenhandels- und Verkehrsakademie (GermanAcademy for Foreign Trade and Transport Economics) and graduated as a Business Economist for Transport Economics/Logistics.
It was during this period that a new office building was constructed and the first homepage was launched.