For more than 100 years we have been helping clients with logistics and maritime services all over the world. With 30 offices on 3 continents we can provide experienced logistics experts all around the world. We have expertise in the steel, tobacco, oil and gas, chemicals and consumer goods industries.

Ahlers has an annual turnover of 205 million and employs 850 staff. We have experienced professionals, proven systems, and follow industry best practices to design the logistics solutions that make our clients successful. We have built custom-designed warehouses in Russia to manage specialized flows of goods, and have expanded our warehouses in Antwerp and Ghent to meet client capacity demands.

We offer remarkable value-added activities for the chemical industries, transport huge offshore platforms from port to destination and haul complete industrial production plants across the world.

In 2016, Ahlers Belgium started a sustainability team, a group of 8 colleagues who look at what we can do to support the Sustainable Development Goals that were set by the UN the year before. Two years into the project and we are proud we can look back on the following achievements:

1. Climate Actions:

The lights in the warehouses in Ghent were replaced by LED lights with motion detection.
Over 70% of the company cars, which were all diesel engines, was replaced by hybrid, electrical and CNG vehicles.
A charging point for electrical vehicles was installed at our offices and warehouses.
An insect hotel was placed outside our chemicals warehouse.
A carpool platform and introduced.
Development of a Lean & Green action plan.

2. Good health and wellbeing

Colleagues were given the opportunity to take part in activities that were beneficial for their health.
Different charity events were organized to support a good cause.
We started offering a(n) (electric) bicycle lease plan for all employees.
A specialized consultant in ergonomics gave individual consults to all employees on working posture.

We are very much open for partnerships and discussions on the subject. Are you thinking of implementing a similar action plan or do you have pointers for ours? Do not hesitate to contact us.