German Logistics Award 2010 goes to Nord Stream AG
Pipeline logistics project honoured with German Logistics Award of the year
The Swiss enterprise Nord Stream AG with its headquarters in Zug received the German Logistics Award 2010 from the German Logistics Association (BVL). The award was presented in the course of the 27 German Logistics Congress in Berlin. The jury honoured the enterprise for its pipeline logistics project „Die Logistik zur Pipeline“, comprising the logistics for the Nord Stream gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea from Russia’s Wyborg to Lubmin near Greifswald in Germany. The tasks of Nord Stream AG comprise planning, construction and operation of the gas pipeline, consisting of two parallel pipes of each 1,224 kilometres length. The first line is planned to start operating in 2011; the second is to follow 2012. The logistics budget of the project at the amount of EUR 650 million covers also the supply of pipe segments made from a total of 2.2 million tons of steel. The company was founded on 2 December 2005 as Nordeuropäische Gasleitungs-Gesellschaft and acts under its present name Nord Stream AG since the change in October 2006. The shares of the enterprise are held by the Russian Gazprom (51 per cent), BASF SE/Wintershall Holding GmbH and E.ON Ruhrgas (each 15.5 per cent), the Dutch Gasunie and the French GDF Suez (each 9 per cent). Quelle: LogEastics |