BLG reports a stable financial year
BREMEN. Despite geopolitical crises, a weakening German economy and ongoing uncertainties in global trade, the BLG Logistics Group has closed its 2025 financial year on a stable note.
Sustainable ports in Lower Saxony
24.05.2023
OLDENBURG. At the annual press conference of the Lower Saxony seaports in late March, Seaports of Niedersachsen, the port marketing company, presented its cargo handling figures for 2022. Around 54 million tonnes were recorded for the seaports – Brake, Cuxhaven, Emden, Leer, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Papenburg, Stade and Wilhelmshaven – equivalent to a six per cent rise compared to 2021. Furthermore, roughly 117 million euros were invested in the ports in 2022, significantly more than in previous years. This figure was mainly due to the construction of the LNG terminals in Wilhelmshaven and Stade. At the press conference, Lower Saxony’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Transport, Olaf Lies, stated: “The ports play a central role in securing the energy supply for Germany as well as in the energy transition”. Focussing on digitalisation as a possible impetus for North German port cooperation, he said: “As far as container handling, in particular, is concerned, the handling of cars and agricultural products as well as the expansion of offshore wind farm capacities and securing the future supply of energy for Germany, Lower Saxony can incorporate the strengths of its ports due to their location in a closer cooperation among German ports.”
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BLG reports a stable financial year
BREMEN. Despite geopolitical crises, a weakening German economy and ongoing uncertainties in global trade, the BLG Logistics Group has closed its 2025 financial year on a stable note.
Extension of tonnage tax boosts wind energy
BERLIN/HAMBURG. The Offshore Wind Energy Foundation and the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) have expressly welcomed the plan by the Federal Government’s Coordinator for Maritime Economy and Tourism, Dr Christoph Ploß, to extend the tonnage tax to vessels in the offshore wind sector.
Expansion of Speckenbüttel Port Station begins
BREMERHAVEN. The Bremen Senate is providing around 56 million euros for the expansion. Among other things, these funds will be used to build seven additional tracks, each approximately 740 metres long. There are also plans to digitise the existing infrastructure to improve the port’s connection to the hinterland.
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