Transekur was founded in 2012 by Dan Guzmán and Ricardo Pérez Fernández, who are both still operating partners and run the company day to day. It trades as Transekur Global, S.R.L. in the Dominican Republic and Transekur Global LLC in the United States. Outside investors joined after the fleet had reached eight vehicles.

Does Transekur use third-party operators?

No. We own our vehicles and employ our drivers. We have never resold third-party operators, which is why we can be accountable for what happens on the road.

What areas does Transekur cover?

The whole country, including every international airport: Punta Cana (PUJ), Santo Domingo (SDQ and JBQ), La Romana (LRM), Santiago (STI), Puerto Plata (POP) and Samaná (AZS), with the resort areas, cities and coastlines they serve.

What is Transekur Transpo?

Transekur Transpo is our active production division, created in 2014 after Pinewood Dominican Republic asked whether we could supply production equipment as well as move their people. It was the first dedicated fleet of production vehicles and equipment in the Dominican Republic and is today the country's largest production-trailer operation, supplying vehicles, production equipment, trailers and mobile restroom units for film, live events and institutional logistics.

Does Transekur work with concerts and live events?

Yes. Transekur Transpo has provided transportation, production trailers and mobile restroom units for large-scale live events across the Dominican Republic, including every edition of Festival Presidente since 2016 and major concerts nationwide. That work has included events produced by SD Concerts and edLive, among other leading Dominican event producers, and covers crew and artist transport as well as equipment. We also handle full transportation and logistics for governmental and institutional events, international summits and NGO events.

Does Transekur work with film productions?

Yes. Transekur Transpo has provided transportation and production equipment for international productions filmed in the Dominican Republic, including xXx: Return of Xander Cage, The Lost City, Shotgun Wedding and Nyad. Over the past decade, most major productions shot in the country have involved Transekur in some capacity — moving cast and crew, supplying trailers and restroom units, or both.

About Transekur — Transekūr means safe transport

In 2012 Dan Guzmán bought a Chevrolet Suburban for his own use. People kept asking to rent it. He kept saying yes.

He and Ricardo Pérez Fernández founded Transekur that year. Both are still operating partners — they run the company day to day rather than owning it from a distance, which in a market full of brokers is the difference between a promise and someone answerable for it.

That is the actual beginning of this company — not a business plan, a pattern of requests. Santo Domingo had no premium ground transport of the kind every other major capital took for granted, and the requests kept coming until the answer had to become a company.

What grew out of that Suburban is a company that moves people and infrastructure for some of the country's hardest logistical jobs — airport arrivals, film sets, festival grounds, institutional events. Airport transfers are the part of it you can book in two minutes, and they are held to the same standard as everything else.

The photographs on this page come from the company's own files, 2012 onward.

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2012

One Suburban, and then a second one

The first vehicle was never meant to be a fleet. It became one because the demand was already there, waiting for someone to take it seriously.

A few months later came a second Suburban, and Transekur Global was incorporated in both the Dominican Republic and the United States, which is why a US toll-free reservations line still runs alongside the Dominican operation. From that point the question was no longer whether there was a market. It was what kind of company would serve it.

Early Transekur Suburban parked at a hillside property in the Dominican Republic — An early Transekur Suburban on location, Dominican Republic.

The decision

We own the vehicles and we employ the drivers

From the start we owned our vehicles and employed our drivers instead of reselling third-party operators. Almost nobody in the market did that. Most still don't.

It costs more. It is also the only way to be accountable for what actually happens on the road — who is driving, how the vehicle is maintained, what happens when a flight lands four hours late.

Trained bilingual drivers, onboard Wi-Fi and cold drinks were standard from day one. The industry followed on all three. You can see the current fleet and how the vehicles are used on airport transfers.

A Transekur chauffeur at the wheel of a company vehicle — One of our chauffeurs. Employed, trained, and driving a vehicle we own.

Seven Hyundai Staria vans lined up with uniformed Transekur chauffeurs — Our own vehicles, our own chauffeurs.

Growth

The service came first, the structure came after

The fleet reached eight vehicles before outside investors became interested. Only then did formal sales, operations and administrative departments exist.

The order matters. We did not build a company and then look for trips to fill it.

2014

Punta Cana

We opened a branch in Punta Cana — the single most important destination in the Caribbean and Central America — so arrivals in the east were served by our own people rather than handed off. Today that operation anchors our work across the whole country's destinations, and the weddings programmes that come with them.

2015

Santiago, and the whole country

A Santiago operation completed our coverage: we became capable of serving every international airport in the country.

That same year Forbes named Transekur one of the "30 Business Promises of the Dominican Republic (2015)".

Meet the Founders

Behind Transekur are people who have spent years building the journeys, relationships and systems that make the company work. Meet the founders and the experience they bring to travelling in the Dominican Republic.

Dan Guzmán

Co-Founder of Transekur · Entrepreneur · Private Pilot

An entrepreneur on the ground. A pilot at heart.

Dan Guzmán is a Dominican entrepreneur whose ventures span premium transportation, film-production support, VIP travel and hospitality in the Dominican Republic and the United States.

His career began in market research, conducting interviews as a teenager before moving into analysis, regional projects and managing a research operation in Miami. In 2012, he co-founded Transekur, starting with a Chevrolet Suburban he had bought for himself and helping develop the company's commercial strategy, website and booking systems.

His entrepreneurial story also includes Transekur Transpo, supplying trailers and equipment for film and entertainment productions; Danny's Smokehouse, a delivery-only smoked-meat kitchen he opened in Santo Domingo during the pandemic; and Altura VIP's international airport concierge and travel services. His U.S. ventures also extend to short-term rentals and property investment.

Today, Dan lives in Punta Cana. Above all, he loves creating companies. Over the past year he has worked as a systems architect, using AI-assisted development to build the software behind several of his ventures. A private pilot and former aircraft owner, he brings both an entrepreneur's and a traveller's perspective to his writing about the Dominican Republic. Flying is his greatest passion.

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Ricardo Pérez Fernández

Co-Founder of Transekur · Economist

Building the service he wanted to find.

For Ricardo Pérez Fernández, Transekur began with a traveller's perspective. Having grown up between the Dominican Republic and the United States, lived in Europe and travelled extensively for consulting work and leisure, he had come to value dependable, professional transportation. He saw an opportunity to bring more of that consistency to the Dominican Republic.

An economist with master's degrees in macroeconometrics, political economy and political science, Ricardo entered entrepreneurship through Transekur. He co-founded the company with Dan Guzmán, a lifelong friend he met in first grade. Their different professional paths and complementary strengths became part of the foundation of the business.

His approach to service remains personal: experience it as the passenger would, and ask whether it meets the standard he would expect himself. He brings that same scrutiny to innovation, technology and more environmentally responsible transportation. For Ricardo, a premium service must deliver more than a polished first impression; it must make the journey better for the person taking it.

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Transekur Transpo

Moving infrastructure, not just passengers

It started in 2014 with a question. Pinewood Dominican Republic — the largest motion picture studio in Latin America — had been using us to move actors, directors and producers arriving to shoot in the country. Then they asked whether we could also supply production equipment.

The answer became Transekur Transpo, the first company in the Dominican Republic with a dedicated fleet of vehicles and equipment for production. It exists because a client asked a question, not because of a strategy deck. Today it works across three strands.

Two Transekur employees on a ladder applying the Transekur Production Rentals livery to the side of a box truck — Applying the Transekur Production Rentals livery, Santo Domingo.

Film and television

Transekur Transpo has provided transportation and production equipment for international productions filmed in the Dominican Republic, including:

xXx: Return of Xander Cage — Pinewood DR Studios in Juan Dolio, with Cabarete, Puerto Plata and Casa de Campo
The Lost City — Casa de Campo
F9: The Fast Saga

Over the past decade, most major productions shot in the country have involved Transekur in some capacity — moving cast and crew, supplying trailers and restroom units, or both. See the full production portfolio.

Live events and concerts

We have provided transportation, production trailers and mobile restroom units for large-scale live events across the country, including every edition of Festival Presidente since 2016 and major concerts nationwide. Transekur Transpo has provided transportation, production trailers and sanitation units for events produced by SD Concerts and edLive, among other leading Dominican event producers.

Institutional and NGO logistics

We also handle full transportation and logistics for governmental and institutional events, international summits and NGO events — the kind of work that is judged entirely on whether everyone arrives where they should, when they should.

Convoy of SUVs and passenger vans lined up on a rural road during a production move — A production convoy staged on location.

Transekur production trailers lined up at a location basecamp at dusk — Production trailers at a location basecamp.

Transekur Transpo is an active division and the largest production-trailer operation in the Dominican Republic.

The short version

2012
Founded by Dan Guzmán and Ricardo Pérez Fernández
A personal Suburban people kept asking to rent. A second one follows, and Transekur Global is incorporated in the DR and the US.
2014
Punta Cana branch
Our own operation in the most important destination in the Caribbean and Central America.
2014
Transekur Transpo
Pinewood Dominican Republic asks for production equipment. We become the country's first dedicated film and event production fleet.
2015
Santiago and national coverage
Every international airport in the country served. Forbes names us one of the "30 Business Promises of the Dominican Republic (2015)".
2020
First electric vehicles enter the fleet
We begin buying electric vehicles, in a year when the Dirección General de Aduanas counted 1,905 electric vehicles in the entire country.
2016
First Festival Presidente
Our first edition of the country's largest music festival. We have worked every edition since.
2016 onward
Major international productions
Transportation and production equipment for international productions filmed in the Dominican Republic, and the country's largest production-trailer fleet.
Ongoing
Live events and institutional logistics
Trailers, mobile restroom units, crew and artist transport for concerts and festivals, plus full logistics for governmental and institutional events, international summits and NGO events.
Today
One standard, four kinds of work
Airport transfers, VIP fast track, private chauffeur, groups, weddings — plus film, live events and institutional logistics through Transekur Transpo.

What has not changed

Everything above is a consequence of one thing: we take the name literally. Transekūr means safe transport, and you cannot promise that on vehicles you do not own with drivers you do not employ.

Transekur is short for transporte seguro — safe transport. Since June 2012 that has meant a written procedure for every step of the journey, now one operating manual every chauffeur is trained on before their first assignment. Read the Care Standard

Our vehicles are ours — bought, maintained and inspected by us.
Our drivers are our employees: trained, bilingual, in uniform, on dispatched trips.
No brokering. The company you booked is the company that shows up.

Where we are now

We run airport transfers, VIP fast track, private chauffeur service, groups and events, and weddings — and through Transekur Transpo, transportation and production infrastructure for film, live events and institutional logistics. Same fleet discipline, same employed drivers, whether it is one arrival at PUJ or a festival site.

The fleet now includes fully electric Volvo XC40 Recharge vehicles, run on the same owned-and-employed model as everything else. We have been buying electric vehicles since 2020 and are replacing each category as an electric version becomes available.

Travellers have rated us 5.0 across 19,000+ Tripadvisor reviews.

How the electric transition works

What we do

Airport transfers
VIP fast track
Private chauffeur
Groups and events
Weddings
Film, live event and institutional logistics (Transekur Transpo)

Offices

Corporate — Av. César Nicolás Penson #147, Gascue, Santo DomingoPunta Cana — Cap Cana Industrial Park

Credentials

Legal entity: Transekur Global, S.R.L. (Dominican Republic) and Transekur Global LLC (United States).

INTRANT Operating License SAV-LL 002-2025 (amended by Resolution SAV-LL-004-2026) — valid through January 2030.

Commercial passenger liability insurance, and a member of the Asociación de Hoteles de La Romana y Bayahibe.

Row of white Volvo XC40 Recharge electric SUVs in the Transekur fleet — Volvo XC40 Recharge, fully electric, on Transekur ELECTRIC plates.

Questions people ask about the company

When was Transekur founded?: In 2012, in Santo Domingo, with a single Chevrolet Suburban. Transekur Global was incorporated in both the Dominican Republic and the United States a few months later, after a second vehicle was added.
Who owns Transekur?: Transekur was founded in 2012 by Dan Guzmán and Ricardo Pérez Fernández, who are both still operating partners and run the company day to day. It trades as Transekur Global, S.R.L. in the Dominican Republic and Transekur Global LLC in the United States. Outside investors joined after the fleet had reached eight vehicles.
Does Transekur use third-party operators?: No. We own our vehicles and employ our drivers. We have never resold third-party operators, which is why we can be accountable for what happens on the road.
What areas does Transekur cover?: The whole country, including every international airport: Punta Cana (PUJ), Santo Domingo (SDQ and JBQ), La Romana (LRM), Santiago (STI), Puerto Plata (POP) and Samaná (AZS), with the resort areas, cities and coastlines they serve.
What is Transekur Transpo?: Transekur Transpo is our active production division, created in 2014 after Pinewood Dominican Republic asked whether we could supply production equipment as well as move their people. It was the first dedicated fleet of production vehicles and equipment in the Dominican Republic and is today the country's largest production-trailer operation, supplying vehicles, production equipment, trailers and mobile restroom units for film, live events and institutional logistics.
Does Transekur work with concerts and live events?: Yes. Transekur Transpo has provided transportation, production trailers and mobile restroom units for large-scale live events across the Dominican Republic, including every edition of Festival Presidente since 2016 and major concerts nationwide. That work has included events produced by SD Concerts and edLive, among other leading Dominican event producers, and covers crew and artist transport as well as equipment. We also handle full transportation and logistics for governmental and institutional events, international summits and NGO events.
Does Transekur work with film productions?: Yes. Transekur Transpo has provided transportation and production equipment for international productions filmed in the Dominican Republic, including xXx: Return of Xander Cage, The Lost City, Shotgun Wedding and Nyad. Over the past decade, most major productions shot in the country have involved Transekur in some capacity — moving cast and crew, supplying trailers and restroom units, or both.

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