CONTRACT: Tailormade logistics solutions
In the CONTRACT Division, we manage complex logistics projects and offer our customers in industry
and retailing reliable upstream and downstream distribution solutions. The focus of our know-how and
experience lies in procurement, production and distribution logistics, reverse and spare parts
logistics, as well as freight forwarding services. We offer storage, transport, packing and
unpacking services, handle conventional orders, e-commerce issues as well as a variety of
value-added services. As a logistics architect, we also plan, design and implement customized
logistics solutions – whether highly automated logistics centers or manual in-house processing.
Professional project management is our core competence, and sustainability plus agreed, reliable
quality are our top priorities. Our customers are strong brands from industry and retailing,
medium-sized companies and the major German and international car manufacturers. At over 40
locations in Europe and overseas, our teams of experts devise bespoke service packages for a wide
variety of goods, ranging from automotive parts, railroad components, sneakers, printers, fashion,
furniture, cookies to bathroom fittings through our own logistics centers and our customers’
production facilities and warehouses. In the second half-year of 2022, we reorganized this business
segment to enable us to remain as forward-looking and competitive as we have traditionally been. In
view of the major challenge the negative effects of the multiple crises also pose for this business
segment, we feel this reorganization came at the right time, and new demands and initial successes
are proving that the strategic realignment in this area was the right way to go.
Since fall 2021, we have operated an import warehouse for a leading food retailer on an area of
around 60,000 square meters at our location in Verden. In addition to palletizing and storage of the
goods, our service includes random testing and shipping samples to laboratories or customers as well
as redistribution to 40 decentralized warehouses in Germany and Austria.
Also in October 2021, the foundation stone was laid for the new C3 Bremen logistics center, which
covers approximately 80,000 square meters and combines state-of-the-art technology, effective
climate protection and excellent working conditions for our employees. As little as one year later,
in fall 2022, we moved into the new facility and C3 went into operation. We now consolidate the
production supply for the global assembly plants of a leading automotive manufacturer, which was
previously carried out from several locations in Bremen, at a new forward-looking logistics center.
In the reporting year, we also became a new logistics partner to Deutz AG and have been managing an
external warehouse of around 20,000 square meters for engine shipping at the Cologne site since
November 1, 2022. Currently, 53 colleagues are already working here, and further new hires are
planned for 2023.
We opened a new logistics center in Magdeburg in the second half of the year. On an area of around
63,000 square meters, 71 employees in a team that is continuing to grow handle the entire logistics
process for a renowned retail customer, from incoming goods to order picking and outgoing goods.
Millions of articles are stored here in pallet and shelf-type racking systems, with a picking tower
with over 120,000 spaces on three levels forming the centerpiece.
CONTAINER: Box services
In the CONTAINER Division, the EUROGATE Group, in which we have a 50 percent shareholding, is one of
Europe’s leading shipping line–independent container terminal groups. The Group’s core business is
container handling at seaports at nine terminal locations. Secondary services include seaworthy
packaging or container depot, maintenance and repair services as well as intermodal transport.
EUROGATE GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG is a company consolidated using the equity method of accounting and
managed separately from BLG in all CSR-relevant areas. The information in this report relates to the
fully consolidated companies of the AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions, including BLG AG and BLG KG
(central departments). Information relating to the non-financial report of EUROGATE
is presented separately.
Over 11,000 employees shape logistics together
Our employees assume responsibility for smooth logistics of high-quality products day in and day
out. In 2022, in its fully consolidated companies plus the CONTAINER Division (50 percent
shareholding), BLG LOGISTICS had an average 11,492 employees globally (calculated according to
Section 267 (5) of the German Commercial Code (HGB)). On the reporting date of December 31, 2022,
there were 9,407 employees at more than 70 German locations in the AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions
as well as at the central departments, plus a further 850 employees at the international locations
of our fully consolidated companies. Further information about personnel statistics and development
is provided in detail in the SOCIAL section.
The map provides an overview of the distribution of our fully consolidated companies as well as
other countries with activities of the AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions.
Automobile and contract logistics
