BLG LOGISTICS GROUP AG & Co. KG (BLG KG), headquartered in Bremen, is an international seaport and logistics service provider. We offer comprehensive system services in automotive, contract and container logistics along the entire supply chain and develop innovative logistics solutions for the future. Our customers include leading car manufacturers as well as well-known companies from trade and industry. With nearly 100 branches and locations in Europe, America and Africa, BLG LOGISTICS is represented in all of the world’s major growth markets. www.blg-logistics.com
Our company is managed by privately structured BREMER LAGERHAUS‑GESELLSCHAFT -Aktiengesellschaft von 1877- (BLG AG), with the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as the main shareholder. The management of BLG KG is the responsibility of the Board of Management of listed BLG AG, which acts on its own responsibility. In the reporting period, there were no personnel changes on the board. Long-time CEO Frank Dreeke left the company on December 31, and Matthias Magnor, former COO, took his place as chairman of the Board of Management, with Axel Krichel taking over the COO role from January 1, 2025. The 16-member Supervisory Board, which consists of an equal representation of employees and shareholders, supervises and advises the Board of Management on its duties. For more information on the composition of the Supervisory Board, selection procedures and responsibilities, see the Governance section.
The Group generated sales revenue of EUR 1.22 billion in the 2024 financial year. Detailed key financial figures can be found in our Financial Report.
Our ownership structure
As of December 31, 2024, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (municipality) was the main shareholder with 50.4 percent of the shares in BLG AG. Other significant institutional investors are Finanzholding der Sparkasse Bremen and Panta Re AG, each with a 12.6 percent share, and the Waldemar Koch Foundation, Bremen, which owns 5.9 percent of the shares. 18.5 percent of shares are in free float. The Group’s legal structure can be found in the 2024 Financial Report.
Services at a Glance
AUTOMOBILE – Intelligent vehicle logistics from A to Z
BLG LOGISTICS’ AUTOMOBILE division is one of the leading providers of technical and logistics services for the international automotive industry. We make use of multi-modal transport and combine tailor-made, innovative, technical services. Distribution takes place by road, rail and inland waterways. In addition to our terminals in Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Hamburg and Gdansk, we also operate other terminals on the Rhine and Danube rivers. In 2024, the network was extended in include another modern terminal: a new domestic terminal for automotive logistics, with space for up to 15,000 vehicles, will be put into operation in Ahlhorn from 2025. Our network is supported by a fleet of trucks with about 500 of our own car transporters, exclusively used for BLG LOGISTICS, ensuring a seamless logistics chain.
The BLG AutoRail is specialized in the transport of vehicles by rail and has a fleet of almost 1,500 open car transport wagons, including 200 flat wagons. The modern, flexible equipment uses only green electricity in the German and Austrian rail network. In addition, our subsidiary BLG RailTec takes care of wagon maintenance in the area of rail-bound car transport. In this way, we guarantee full coverage of the integrated logistics chain from the manufacturer to the end customer. We are consistently expanding our logistics network with smart digital solutions and sustainable concepts for environmentally friendly transport. As one of the leading automotive logistics companies in Europe, we set ourselves apart by breaking new ground and finding individual solutions. This is also evident in projects such as the connection from our Kelheim car terminal to Kösekoy – one of the largest logistics centers of the Turkish State Railway – which has been served by two car trains every month since 2023. In 2024, the network with Turkey was further expanded in the AUTOMOBILE Division.
Meanwhile, cooperation with Chinese car manufacturers in particular has been further strengthened at BLG AutoTerminal Bremerhaven, which is increasingly becoming a hub for car transport between Asia and Europe. At our terminals, we also offer comprehensive services such as handling, technical processing, quality control and customs clearance for electric vehicles, making an important contribution to the energy transition.
New capacities were created with new areas in the immediate vicinity of the car terminal in Bremerhaven. The first step on the newly commissioned site was handling and the assembly of two power station modules for Siemens Energy. In the south port, BLG LOGISTICS assembles systems and machinery that cannot be transported by road due to their weight and size, directly in deep water. In addition to space, we also make our expertise in heavy goods handling available to our customers.
Across the entire AUTOMOBILE network, BLG LOGISTICS handled, transported or technically processed around 4.4 million vehicles in 2024.
CONTRACT – Tailor-made logistics solutions
In the CONTRACT Division, we manage complex logistics projects and offer our customers reliable solutions for upstream and downstream distribution. Our expertise and experience are focused on procurement, production and distribution logistics, returns and spare parts logistics, and freight forwarding services. We store, transport, pack and unpack, process conventional orders, handle e-commerce and also offer a wide range of value-added services.
As logistics architects, we develop, plan and implement customized logistics solutions – from highly-automated logistics centers to manual in-house processing. The focus is always on professional project management, sustainability and adherence to high quality standards. Our customers are well-known brands from industry and trade, medium-sized companies as well as leading German and international automotive manufacturers. At more than 40 locations in Europe and across the globe, we operate in our own logistics centers as well as in the production areas and warehouses of our customers. Whether car parts, railway components, sports shoes, printers, fashion, furniture, biscuits or bathroom fittings – our expert teams create tailor-made service packages for a wide variety of goods.
In 2024, BLG LOGISTICS rented a logistics warehouse measuring just under 12,000 m2 in the west of Berlin. This enabled us to further expand our business in Falkensee in time for the site’s 10th anniversary: BLG expanded its energy technology business at the Falkensee III site. Other locations were added in Düsseldorf, Bocholt, Mühlheim and Butzbach, where we expanded our cooperation with existing customers.
In 2024, we also acquired a new major customer in the cargo sector. The company relocated all of its US shipments to Bremen in the reporting year. In future, around 500,000 m3 of sawn lumber will be loaded onto charter and liner ships from there each year.
Over the course of the reporting year, we also adapted our land transport services and deployed 30 extended semitrailers for efficient and sustainable goods transport. These can transport up to 10 percent more goods than conventional trailers. In 2024, the BLG Group’s Roadfreight unit in the CONTRACT Division operated a fleet of 60 tractors and almost 120 trailers. Each year, they carry around 20,000 full loads. With this, we are facing an increased interest in larger transport volumes. At the same time, we are working intensively on the alternative drive and fuel options so we can implement them together with our customers.
In cases where orders came to an end or were not continued in 2024, it was possible to make an offer to all approximately 50 employees concerned to switch to the successor service provider or to find a new place within BLG. Our business with IKEA and Tchibo will come to an end in 2025, and the path for an employee transfer was already set in the reporting year.
The liquidation of BLG Logistics (Beijing) Co. Ltd. and BLG Freight, LLC was completed in 2024. The map provides an overview of the worldwide presence of our fully-consolidated companies, as well as other countries where the AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions are active.
Automobile and contract logistics
2 Business operations have been restricted since February 2022 due to the current conflict.
3 Strategic partnership
CONTAINER – Box services
In the CONTAINER Division, the EUROGATE Group, in which we hold a 50 percent stake, is one of the leading container terminal groups in Europe which is not shipping company-specific. Its core business includes container handling at nine terminal locations in Germany, Italy, Morocco, Cyprus and, from mid-2025, also Egypt. In addition, EUROGATE offers a number of other services, including seaworthy packaging, container depots, maintenance and repair, and intermodal transport.
In 2024, BLG LOGISTICS and EUROGATE joined forces under the new “Eco Power Port” brand to pool their many years of expertise in handling heavy goods and wind energy components. Sharing space at the Bremerhaven container terminal and other possible areas in the future in the south port creates valuable synergies – to the benefit of our customers and the entire wind energy industry. With specialized port facilities and a strong industrial infrastructure, the site offers optimum conditions for the handling, maintenance and production of wind energy components.
EUROGATE GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG is accounted for in our financial reporting using the equity method and any topics relating to CSR are managed separately from BLG LOGISTICS. The information in this report relates to the consolidated companies in the AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions, including BLG AG and BLG KG (corporate departments). Information on the non-financial reporting for EUROGATE is presented separately in the section EUROGATE.
More than 11,100 employees are helping to shape logistics
Day in day out, our employees take responsibility for smoothly organizing the logistics for high-quality products. In 2024, BLG LOGISTICS employed an average of 11,119 people across the globe in its consolidated companies, including the CONTAINER Division (50 percent equity interest) (calculation according to section 267 (5) of the German Commercial Code). As of the reporting date, December 31, 2024, 8,888 employees across over 70 German sites were employed in the AUTOMOBILE and CONTRACT Divisions, as well as the corporate departments, and a further 919 employees at the international sites of our fully consolidated companies. Further detailed information on personnel statistics and development can be found in the SOCIAL section.