Materiality Analysis

This Sustainability Report is a central part of our overall business reporting and was prepared in accordance with the GRI standards. We make the associated GRI Content Index available online. reporting.blg-logistics.com/en

Also as part of Group reporting, we have published a non-financial statement in accordance with the EU Corporate Social Responsibility Directive since 2017 and have integrated a non-financial Group report (NFR) into our sustainability reporting. The corresponding CSR Index on CSR Index shows where the topics relevant for the NFR appear in the various sections of the present report.

Boundaries and reporting scope

Our sustainability reporting covers the fully consolidated companies of the BLG LOGISTICS GROUP that belong exclusively to the AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions. When identifying and selecting the material topics and prioritizing the contents for the non-financial statement, we therefore focused on these two divisions and our central departments.

This report concentrates on the domestic BLG companies. They account for 91.7 percent of all employees and 95.7 percent of revenue of the fully consolidated locations, i.e., the most substantial part of our business activities. Nevertheless, we are working continuously on increasing the availability of data also from our foreign companies. For example, we have included the consumption of the relevant international locations in our energy and greenhouse gas accounting for some time now, and in the present report are for the first time presenting differentiated human resources KPIs for the individual countries.

The third business division, CONTAINER, is represented by the EUROGATE Group, in which BLG LOGISTICS has a 50 percent shareholding. EUROGATE is the leading shipping line–independent container terminal group in Europe. EUROGATE manages the areas that are material for non-financial reporting, including energy, the environment, human resources and compliance, independently. We therefore present the NFR-relevant topics for the CONTAINER Division separately.

Identifying and selecting the reported aspects

The topics we focus on in this report continue to take their cues from an extensive process to determine the content of our sustainability reporting developed in 2018 (described in detail in the sustainability report for that year) as well as from an in-depth internal materiality review conducted within the Sustainability Board in 2021. This looked at the importance of the individual aspects for our economic success as well as the impact of our business activities on the environment and society. In this way, we ensure the continued relevance of the content of our reporting and give consideration to current developments and new insights, resulting most recently in the new inclusion of the topic “Resources and Waste.” Apart from this, we continued in 2022 to report on the key performance indicators collected to date in line with the GRI requirements.

Weighting of our material topics

We have assigned our material topics to the three pillars ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL and ECONOMIC and arranged them in the materiality matrix below according to their relevance for BLG and their impacts on the environment and on society. This presents a classification of the aspects according to whether they are important, very important or of highest priority for BLG LOGISTICS, with only the latter being included in our non-financial report. In addition, we have linked the topics to the respective SDGs that we want to contribute to achieving. The topic Sustainable Supply Chain relates to aspects from all three pillars, which is why we provide separate information on our strategies, progress and challenges in this area.

Neither our internal review process nor the risk management situation or the ongoing dialog with our stakeholders have given us any reason to reassess individual topics compared with the previous year. The aspects of Climate Protection, Energy Management, Compliance and Sustainable Supply Chain were already ranked higher in importance in the context of the 2021 materiality review described above.

In the following, we explain BLG LOGISTICS’ management approach for each material topic in this report, and also present selected key performance indicators in accordance with the GRI guidelines. In addition, we describe how we address the aspects of the NFR – including concepts, results, evaluation mechanisms and other relevant KPIs. You can find an overall assessment of risks here.

Materiality matrix