Corporate Profile

Kuehne + Nagel Kuehne + Nagel has 115 years of history and experience. August Kuehne and Friedrich Nagel founded the forwarding and commissioning business in 1890 in Bremen, northern Germany, concentrating on cotton and consolidated freight. Today the company is one of the world's leading logistics groups and provides high value integrated logistics services.

The Kuehne + Nagel mission statement reads: "The global logistics network is our strongest asset. Dedication, integration and innovation are at the heart of our business philosophy. Focused on our customers’ needs, we provide integrated logistics solutions of outstanding quality and operational excellence. We are the extension of your business."

Business Activities

Seafreight

Kuehne + Nagel is the world's leading seafreight solutions provider. The company's 4000 seafreight specialists offer customers highly flexible services (carrier choice), global visibility and monitoring capabilities, and competitive rates.

Airfreight - globally Cargo 2000 Phase 2 certified

Kuehne + Nagel is one of the world’s leading providers of airfreight services and comprehensive air logistics solutions. Annually, the company handles more than 600,000 tonnes of freight, serving the international key markets as well as offering individual transportation solutions to remote places.

Contract Logistics

Kuehne + Nagel is one of the leading contract logistics providers worldwide with 5.5 million sqm of warehouse and logistics space under its management across 50 countries. The company wants to be recognised as partner of choice for logistics outsourcing and management of complex supply chain projects. Services offered cover all aspects of logistics planning, control and execution, from point of origin to consumption. Kuehne + Nagel contract logistics experts work closely both with the customer and the Group's other divisions to find the optimum solution in terms of cost effectiveness, service level requirements and feasibility.

Railfreight

Across a network of more than 40 operational and commercial offices throughout Europe, Kuehne + Nagel delivers comprehensive railfreight logistics solutions - for every industry, across all relations, and from door to door. Extensive regional rail-connected services are seamlessly integrated from the company's other business fields, or are ensured by competent regional logistics partners.

Road Transportation

Kuehne + Nagel offers the complete range of one-stop-shop road transportation products and services. Thanks to close partnerships with a reliable fleet of sub-contractors, the company provides total flexibility to changing market requirements.

Taking Lead Logistics from Concept to Reality

As companies continue to expand globally, it has become more and more difficult for them to manage an increasing number of logistics partners, multiple contracts along with the complexity this brings to their supply chains.

Special Services - for every logistics requirement

Kuehne + Nagel has a range of services in place dedicated to the highly specific requirements of niche sectors and specialised industries. From shipping fine wines to delivering aid & relief or inflight catering logistics; from managing complex projects in remote oilfields of the Sea of Okhotsk to providing logistics expertise for trade exhibitions in the world's capitals to fine-tuning supply chains for the opening of luxury hotels on the Arabian peninsula. Kuehne + Nagel's product-specific services are of outstanding quality, benefiting from the company's integrated logistics capabilities worldwide and, in particular, its logisticians in-depth niche industry know-how.

Logistics Solutions for the Automotive Industry

The automotive supply chain is increasingly end-customer-driven. Unprecedented levels of customer requests and a highly competitive market are decreasing lead times and product life cycles. Not least, with the industry shifting towards module-based assembly and make-to-order processes, supply chains are becoming more and more complex.

Logistics Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

Kuehne + Nagel is a world leader in providing integrated logistics services for manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and other healthcare products. All services and solutions are designed to meet the exacting operational requirements of this regulated environment (GxP).

The company does significant business with some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical/healthcare companies, as well as other select customers in the pharmaceutical, medical equipment, animal drugs, personal care and infant formula categories.

Logistics Solutions for the High-Tech Industry

Kuehne + Nagel has a strategic focus on logistics solutions for the high-tech sector, providing an integrated, single-source logistics solution from the point of manufacture through delivery to the final customer.

Logistics Solutions for the Industrial Sector

Kuehne + Nagel offers supply chain optimisation and execution solutions to industrial companies. The Group’s global scale facilitates the provision of single-source solutions at and between all major international industrial marketplaces.

Logistics Solutions for the Retail Industry

Kuehne + Nagel supplies strategic logistics solutions to the retail sector with logistics experts, who understand the unique requirements and standards of the industry. The company leverages this knowledge in serving some of the world's largest, most respected retailers, helping them to drive logistics efficiency and competitive advantage.