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At its Erfurt location, BLG LOGISTICS has been supplying services to IKEA since 1997. Having grown to a total floor space of 478,000 square meters, the Distribution Center Erfurt (DC Erfurt) offers the capacity for some 360,000 pallets. Goods are stored in 13 conventional warehouses plus one fully automated and two semi-automated high-rack warehouses. This makes the Distribution Center among the largest warehouse locations in IKEA's global distribution network.

As of April, BLG LOGISTICS in Berlin took over the inbound logistics for the gas turbine manufacturing plant of its customer Siemens. The logistics expert began performing initial individual services for this customer last October.

With retroactive effect from the beginning of 2017, BLG LOGISTICS has taken over forwarding company Kitzinger & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) as well as its subsidiary Arno Rosenlöcher (GmbH & Co. KG). Both companies have been well known on the market for many years under the umbrella brand KICO. Representatives of the two enterprises came together to sign the contract in Bremen on May 3. After takeovers in 2016, KICO is a key component in BLG's strategy of expanding its forwarding business.

BLG LOGISTICS is the winner of the elogistics Tool Award 2017. The prize was presented by AKJ Automotive on 5 April in Saarbrücken. BLG received the commendation for its new "Drone Support in Logistics" solution, implemented together with the startup sitebots GmbH. Jakub Piotrowski (Head of Business Development Contract BLG LOGISTICS), Julian Bremer (Head of DC Emmerich BLG Handelslogistik), and Lars Viet (Head of Sales BLG Industrielogistik) accepted the award during the 32nd annual congress of AKJ Automotive.

• Increase in sales in all three divisions
• EBT rises to 30.8 million euros
• CONTRACT Division expands Freight Forwarding segment

At the press conference on the financial statements in Bremen on April 5, 2017 the Board of Management at BLG LOGISTICS presented the results of the past financial year. CEO Frank Dreeke was pleased “because we were able to achieve what we forecast a year ago and managed to increase sales in all three divisions in 2016. The operating result of the BLG Group is slightly above that of the previous year. In our estimation the economic situation of the BLG Group remains stable, but is capable of improvement.”

BLG LOGISTICS is contributing to road safety by attaching safety notices to some 500 semitrailers in its fleet. The large stickers on the rear of the trucks instruct other drivers to form a rescue corridor in traffic jams.

Christian Dieckhöfer will boost the management team at BLG Industrial Logistics effective as of February 1, 2017 and assume responsibility for further expansion of the segment in Europe.

Go on a trip around the world and get to know the various climate zones of the Earth. Nearly four million visitors have gone on this journey since the opening of the Bremerhaven Climate House in 2009. For school classes, the exhibition is an exciting change to the classroom. Every year more than 100,000 pupils visit the Climate House.

BLG LOGISTICS GROUP AG & Co. KG sells 51 percent of its shares in the Bremerhaven cold store to the Dutch enterprise Kloosterboer. In future the joint venture will bear the name Kloosterboer BLG Coldstore GmbH. The cooperation targets joint positioning in the temperature-controlled logistics sector in northern Germany.

The German automobile logistics provider BLG Logistics and LLC Fenix, owner and operator of Port Bronka, signed a long lasting cooperation agreement for the handling of automobiles via the Port of Bronka.

BLG LOGISTICS, jointly with Bosch, the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics (BIBA), GS1 Germany and queo, won out in a technology competition of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy with a digital lighthouse project for the automobile industry. The project SaSCh – an acronym for “Digital services for shaping agile supply chains” – has been part of the “PAICE” support program, designed to provide major impetus for digitization of industry, since October 11. The focus of the project is on development of a cyber-physical system that digitally records the quality data of car parts in the supply chain. The official starting signal for the project was given in November.

The AUTO ECO, owned by shipping company United European Car Carriers (UECC), called at Bremerhaven yesterday. It is the first Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC) of its kind to be equipped with a liquid natural gas propulsion system and can operate solely on LNG for up to 14 days.

Nostalgia in Neustädter Hafen: the 33-year-old reefer ship “La Manche”, owned by Aker BioMarine, moored at Shed 21 on the weekend and will continue to discharge animal feed in big bags there until midday today.

44 tons heavy, up to 23.9 meters long and 2.74 meters wide: the BLG AutoTerminal Bremerhaven recently loaded four railway cars of a train prototype belonging to Hitachi Rail Europe on behalf of Hitachi Transport System.

The Supervisory Board of BREMER LAGERHAUS-GESELLSCHAFT –Aktiengesellschaft von 1877– appointed Andrea Eck as Director of the AUTOMOBILE Division of BLG LOGISTICS GROUP AG & Co. KG at its last meeting.

The Italian Grimaldi Group, via its associated company AUTOMAR, has acquired a 50-percent share in Calabrian automobile terminal Gioia Tauro. Previously, BLG LOGISTICS operated the terminal alone.

BLG LOGISTICS GROUP AG & Co. KG takes over FORTRAGROUP with retroactive effect from January 1, 2016. The two companies signed the contract in Bremen yesterday. The transaction represents a major milestone in the BLG strategy of systematically expanding its forwarding services division.

“Blazing new trails, showing courage – that’s an attitude deeply ingrained in BLG’s 139-year history,” said Frank Dreeke. With these introductory words the BLG CEO looked back once again at the event of the century “50 years of container handling in Germany” at the 136th Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of BREMER LAGERHAUS-GESELLSCHAFT –Aktiengesellschaft von 1877– at the Congress Center Bremen on May 24, 2016. After that Frank Dreeke thanked the shareholders present, many of whom have been following BLG’s development and work for years, on behalf of the entire Board of Management and then reported to them on the listed company BREMER LAGERHAUS-GESELLSCHAFT –Aktiengesellschaft von 1877–.

Just seven months after breaking ground, BLG LOGISTICS has commissioned the first construction phase of its new logistics center at the Port of Düsseldorf. The official handover from Panattoni Europe took place on April 1. The facility is currently receiving and handling its first full container trucks.

Today (Friday) the sixth inland vessel in the service of BLG Interrijn Autotransport was christened FUERTE in the port of Duisburg. The 135-meter-long ro-ro ship can transport up to 500 vehicles when fully loaded.

May 5, 1966 is a historic date: the dawn of the era of containerized transport in Germany. 50 years ago on this date, the first dedicated container ship was unloaded at Bremen’s Überseehafen by Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft (today BLG Logistics). Since then, containerization has gone on to revolutionize global trade and transport, and also helped to enable Germany to become an export powerhouse. The idea was as simple as it was revolutionary: cargo packed in a standardized steel box could be transferred to any transportation mode anywhere in the world. The standardization of processes accelerated the global transport chain and made globalization possible. In Germany, Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft pioneered this process. Although many players in the shipping and transport industries initially viewed the new steel box with skepticism, BLG’s management grasped the potential early on. Over time, the pioneer became one of the world’s largest shipping line-independent container terminal operators, the EUROGATE Group. EUROGATE was founded in 1999 as a joint venture of the container divisions of BLG Logistics, Bremen, and Hamburg-based EUROKAI, and is today active in eleven seaports in Germany and Europe, including Wilhelmshaven, Germany’s only deep-water port. As container cargos boomed, container handling was relocated from Bremen to Bremerhaven. Today, Bremerhaven is Europe’s fourth largest container port. Over 100 million standard containers (TEU) have been handled here to date. Under the patronage of Martin Günthner, Bremen’s Senator for Economy, Labor and Ports, BLG Logistics and EUROGATE will celebrate this historic event “50 Years of Container Handling in Germany” on May 4, 2016 at the BLG Forum, Bremen. This anniversary event is also supported by the port management company bremenports and other enterprises.

• Group sales rise again: 938.6 million euros
• Increasing sales in all three divisions
• EBT nearly at previous year’s level: 29.7 million euros
• CONTRACT Division establishes new Fashion Logistics segment

The Board of Management of BLG LOGISTICS presented the results of the past financial year at its balance sheet press conference in Bremen on April 20, 2016. CEO Frank Dreeke was satisfied “because we again managed to successfully continue the targeted growth course in 2015 and also increased sales compared to the previous year. The operating result of the BLG Group is nearly at the previous year’s level. In our assessment the economic situation of the BLG Group is stable, but shows potential for improvement.”

BLG LOGISTICS is providing the ABC Peninsula in Bremerhaven as the site for the first large-scale exercise conducted by the Joint Support Service, entitled “JOINT DERBY 2016”, from April 10 to 21. During this exercise over 2,000 soldiers from twelve nations will practice strategic deployment of personnel, material and vehicles.

BLG LOGISTICS together with its partner engelbert strauss is the winner of the European Logistics Award of the European Logistics Association (ELA). After winning the 2015 German Award for Supply Management for the project entitled “Stargate junction – logistics at the interface between humans and robots”, the two companies have now received distinction for this project at the European level, too. Thomas Krüger, Managing Director of BLG Handelslogistik, and Matthias Fischer, Head of Operational Projects at engelbert strauss, received the coveted award in Brussels yesterday evening.

BLG LOGISTICS made its high-bay warehouse facility in Bremen available one recent Sunday to the Volunteer Fire Departments of Verden and Achim and the Oldenburg Fire Department for a rescue exercise 38 meters up in the air. In one of the three high-bay blocks, 146 meters long, 70 meters wide and 42 meters high, the 16-member team of specialists responded to a simulated emergency as part of an ongoing-training exercise.

Last week the new General Manager Plant Dispatch and Vehicle Distribution of the BMW Group, Peter Hörndlein, personally got an idea of the important distribution logistics site for the BMW Group for the first time. Mathias Wellbrock’s successor along with Dr. Ulrich Wieland, Vice President Vehicle Distribution and Vehicle Distribution Center as well as Sandra Reichenauer, Vehicle Distribution Railway Europe and Northern Ports, visited the BLG Auto Terminal Bremerhaven.

The most important port construction project that the two-city state of Bremen will implement this decade is making good progress: representatives of BLG LOGISTICS and the port management company bremenports have now signed the operating contract for the 25-hectare Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB). “We are pleased to have found a competent partner in BLG for the long-term operation of the new loading zone,” stated Ekkehart Siering, Bremen’s State Councillor for Ports.

The Supervisory Board of BREMER LAGERHAUS-GESELLSCHAFT –Aktiengesellschaft von 1877– unanimously appointed Mr. Jens Wollesen as a member of the Board of Management with joint power of representation.

BLG LOGISTICS has been managing parts of  the logistics for the BMW plant in Leipzig since January 1, 2016. The company performs services along the entire supply chain from receiving to warehouse management, sequencing and order picking as well as line supply all the way to handling empties on approx. 200,000 square meters at its client’s plant. BLG manages the supply of the carmaker’s conventional models at the Leipzig site. The processing volume encompasses all parts for a daily production.