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Now BLG LOGISTICS has also become a strategic partner of fischerwerke. It has taken over logistical handling of the articles from the fischer System-Tec product range as well as the fischer standard fixings range. Following the contract signing in May 2019, the first delivery started from the logistics center in Düsseldorf on August 5, 2019.

• Result increased by 12 percent
• Dividend up to 45 cents per individual share
• Supervisory Board and CEO discharged with large majority

From May until probably the beginning of August, a Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler crane from the company Schmidbauer will be on site at BLG AutoTerminal Bremerhaven. It is there for special project loading. With the current configuration, the crane can lift weights of up to 600 tons. The BLG High & Heavy team will use the LR 1600 among other things to load a 333-ton turbine from the quay onto a barge.

• Sales increase to around EUR 1.14 billion

• EBT increases by just under 12 percent
• CO₂ reduction target achieved 
• Customers consider BLG LOGISTICS especially committed to automation

With the ground-breaking ceremony on Monday morning, official construction work starts for PUMA's new logistics and distribution center in Geiselwind. It will be operated by BLG LOGISTICS.

“2018 was a successful year overall for the BLG Group – while challenges certainly arose, there were also many good news stories,” stated BLG CEO Frank Dreeke at the Bremen State Press Conference on Ports on December 17 in Bremen.

To a growing extent, modern seaports and inland ports are controlled by IT systems. In this context the smooth exchange of information between port stakeholders is crucial from a business perspective. Even the briefest system downtimes can give rise to substantial financial losses. Within the framework of a new project codenamed SecProPort, which has attracted a subsidy of around 2.8 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), an industry and research consortium is developing a security architecture to comprehensively protect port logistics against cyber attacks.

Today, the BLG Group simultaneously celebrated the opening of its second logistics center in Falkensee near Berlin and the start of operations in its new distribution center for IKEA in Elsdorf between Hamburg and Bremen.

The BLG Group and STS Logistic have resolved a closer cooperation in Poland. In future, they will jointly operate the Auto Terminal Slask Sp. z.o o. (ATS) in Dabrowa Gornicza. To facilitate this, BLG has sold half its share in the terminal to STS.

The BLG Group has restructured its forwarding activities: It has merged the companies acquired in recent months, INFORTRA GmbH International Forwarding & Transport, Logfortra GmbH Logistic, Forwarding & Transport, Arno Rosenlöcher, and Kitzinger & Co., into a single unit. The new unit operates under the name BLG International Forwarding GmbH & Co. KG.

For its Logistics Center Bremen, BLG LOGISTICS is seeking packers (m/f) and industrial truck drivers for auto parts logistics (m/f) as from now. The 400 new jobs break down into 300 part-time and 100 full-time contracts. Most of the new employees will receive a permanent contract, while a small number will be limited to 24 months.

nord°licht, the customer magazine from BLG LOGISTICS, won a gold award in Vienna yesterday. Attracting more than 700 entries, the Best of Content Marketing Award is Europe's largest competition for this kind of corporate communications.

Last week BLG LOGISTICS officially started operations in its new, state-of-the-art logistics center in Falkensee near Berlin. The facility offers a logistics area of 22,000 square meters, 1,100 square meters of outside storage space, and 1,300 square meters of office space. The BLG focus here is on plant logistics services. The BLG team supplies the production shop of the Siemens gas turbine facility in Berlin-Moabit and its external location in Berlin-Siemensstadt.

The gates to Breakbulk Europe will be thrown open this Tuesday. The largest trade fair for project, breakbulk and High & Heavy cargo is for the first time being held in Bremen from May 29 to 31. BLG LOGISTICS and EUROGATE will be exhibiting in Hall 5 at Booth 1129, at the joint booth of bremenports.

• Dividend of 40 cents per individual share
• Supervisory Board and CEO discharged with large majority
• Supervisory Board elects Dr. Klaus Meier as new Chairman of the Supervisory Board

"Our company's doing well. That's because we've taken important strategic decisions. And because the management team works together seamlessly and with great commitment, keeping a firm focus on the future." With these words, BLG CEO Frank Dreeke today opened the 138th General Shareholders Meeting of BREMER LAGERHAUS-GESELLSCHAFT -Aktiengesellschaft von 1877- in the Congress Center Bremen before reviewing business year 2017. On behalf of the Board of Management, he thanked the 230 shareholders and guests in the room – who represented some 88 percent of the share capital – for coming. Then he presented his report on the listed company BREMER LAGERHAUS-GESELLSCHAFT -Aktiengesellschaft von 1877.

• Sales increase to some EU 1.09 billion
• EBT increased by 8.8 percent
• Megatrend digitalization a major topic for BLG LOGISTICS

At the financial press conference on April 18, 2018 in Bremen, the Board of Management of BLG LOGISTICS presented the results of the past business year. CEO Frank Dreeke expressed his satisfaction: “In many ways, 2017 was a good year – in some aspects even better than expected. We increased sales revenue by four percent and the total result for our AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions alone is more than EUR 1 billion.“