Sven Wellbrock will assume the position of Managing Director of BLG AutoTransport GmbH & Co. KG as of 1 October 2025. In this role he will be responsible for the Transport and Rail divisions. With this appointment, BLG LOGISTICS is placing its trust in an executive with more than twenty years of expertise in the rail sector.
Sven Wellbrock spent more than 20 years in various management roles within the VTG Group, including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Safety Officer. From 2013 to 2023 he served as Chairman of the Management Board of VTG Rail Europe GmbH and was responsible for all VTG leasing activities and workshops in Europe. From 2019 he also took on responsibility for the rail logistics and railway undertaking (EVU) businesses. During this time he led transformation projects that achieved sustainable economic success. His career is characterised by the development and integration of business units as well as the implementation of innovative and digital solutions in the rail sector.
“With Sven Wellbrock we are gaining a proven expert in multimodal logistics. His many years of experience in the rail segment and his strategic view of the entire transport chain will significantly strengthen BLG. We look forward to working with him and to the impulses he will provide for integrating our business areas,” emphasizes Axel Krichel, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the BLG Group.
With his move to BLG, Sven Wellbrock will extend his extensive rail experience to the areas of road and inland waterway transport. In doing so, he will strengthen the integration of transport modes and help advance sustainable solutions for BLG’s customers. Going forward, Sven Wellbrock will be based in both Bremen and Mainz.
“I am very pleased to become part of the BLG team. The connection of rail, road and inland waterway transport is essential to offering our customers competitive solutions. Together with my colleagues I want to bring the strengths of the individual areas even closer together and develop innovative solutions,” says Sven Wellbrock.
His career took the graduate industrial engineer, who specialized in transport and logistics, to Kühne & Nagel, Preussag AG, and TRANSWAGGON AG in Zug, where he held various management positions in the VTG Group, before joining the BLG Group.
