28. Januar 2013 15:10 Age: 1 day

Based on 7.12 million vehicles sold last year, the Hyundai Group with its two brands Hyundai and KIA numbers among the biggest automakers in the world. In the "Equus" Hyundai also has a premium brand in its broad product range, though it has not been seen on German roads as yet. Jung Kook Bae, President of Hyundai Motor Deutschland GmbH, presented the first "Equus" in front of the Bremen Town Hall on January 28 and then handed it over to BLG, which will include the car in its fleet of vehicles. The elegant top-of-the-line limousine from Korea is completely equipped. Introduction on the market in Germany is currently not planned yet, however.

The Koreans have been using BLG's automobile logistics services since Hyundai's launch on the European markets. Hyundai Motor Deutschland GmbH was established in Neckarsulm in 1991. At that time Hyundai was the first Korean carmaker at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Around 28,000 new cars were registered in 1992, the first full financial year. In 1993 the figure had already risen to over 33,000. In the course of its successful development, Hyundai took over the second manufacturer, KIA, and also increasingly set up its own production plants in Europe, including in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. These plants not only build vehicles for the East European markets, however, but also supply Western Europe.

While BLG was initially only responsible for unloading the imported vehicles from Korea from the car carriers at the Bremerhaven Auto Terminal, performing technical preparation work and providing for distribution to the car dealers, Hyundai and KIA now make use of BLG's European transport network. In 2012 563,000 vehicles of the two makes were handled, inspected, technically prepared, transported and distributed to the car dealers. The automobiles from Slovakia and the Czech Republic reach the dealers in Germany via the BLG automobile terminal in Kelheim on the Danube. Hyundai/KIA has developed into the biggest non-German client of BLG Automobile Logistics.

The BLG Automobile Logistics Division recorded significant growth again in 2012. The number of vehicles moved within the terminal and transport network grew from 6.5 million (2011) to over seven million. The largest location in the terminal network and at the same time the biggest car port in Europe is Bremerhaven, which handled 2.15 million vehicles last year.

<- Back to: Presse
distributed by