BLG grows with automobile and contract logistics

BLG Automobile Logistics: Imports via Bremerhaven shifting to Eastern Europe
 
In 2012 sales in the BLG Logistics Group rose by 13.5 per cent to EUR 1.14 billion. In the Container Logistics Division the cargo handling volumes in the terminal network were at the previous year’s level at 13.3 million TEU. The strongest division with EUR 419 million was Automobile Logistics, followed by Contract Logistics with EUR 405 million and Container Logistics with EUR 327 million.
 
A total of 6.75 million vehicles were handled, transported and technically processed in the Automobile Logistics segment in 2012. That was 4.7 per cent more than in the previous year (6.5 million vehicles). Around 75 per cent of the cargo handling volume last year was accounted for by exports and 25 per cent by imports. BLG, present in Eastern Europe with terminals and transport services, attributes the decline in imports via Bremerhaven to new plants of Asian manufacturers in Eastern Europe.
 
In 2012 BLG increased its investments by 89 per cent to EUR 125.6 million. The majority applied to the Wilhelmshaven container terminal. The company invested over EUR 50 million in expansion of the facility of its contract logistics client Tchibo. The volume at the high-bay warehouse in Bremen is expected to double after BLG takes over handling of online business in the middle of this year. The additional business will involve 200 new jobs.

Quelle: LogEastics

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