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People

and Possibilities

Sustainability Report  

2022

Profile

Strategy

Environmental

Social

Economic

Further Information

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> keine Vermaßung nötig

The purest form of insanity is to leave everything as it is and hope that something will change.

Albert Einstein

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Editorial

Editorial

Dear readers,

The year 2022 once again presented many challenges. And as if that were not enough - the

developments­of recent months have called fundamental certainties into doubt, while multiple parallel crises are simultaneously demanding a response. To enable us to maintain our strong position in this environment and above all respond to the new and future requirements in the area of sustainability, we have reassigned responsibilities. We have placed the central Sustainability department under new management and assigned it directly to the Finances Board of Management function.

Our resolve to engage with our stakeholders - our employees as well as partners and, of course, customers - as we continue along our chosen path remains as strong as ever. The possibilities that logistics holds in the future are demonstrated, for example, by our new C3 Bremen logistics center, which was designed with all dimensions of sustainability in mind and has now gone into operation.

This report additionally highlights those material topics in which we made especially good progress in the past year, where we stand on our path to becoming a climate-neutral company and what we have on our sustainability agenda for the near and more distant future. I invite you to go online and, with the help of selected projects and success stories, discover how our actions are contributing to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These are just some examples of how sustainability is already being practiced on various levels within the company.

But what remains pivotal in each case is that we recognize the opportunities that present themselves - and have the courage to act upon them.

Yours,

Yvonne Bonventre

Head of Sustainability

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Contents

03 Profile

1. Editorial
2. Contents
3. Foreword by the CEO
4. Services at a Glance
5. Company Profile

1. Key Figures

1. Strategy
2. Sustainability Management

Overview:

Our Sustainability Approach pp. 14-15

1. Materiality Analysis

1. Governance

1. Risk Management

1. Sustainable Supply Chain

26 Environmental

1. Climate Protection

1. Energy Management

1. Resource Conservation and Waste Management

40 Social

1. Fair Working Conditions and Human Rights

1. Training and Education

1. Occupational Health and Safety Management

1. Diversity and Equal Opportunities

1. Social Commitment

56 Economic

58 Compliance

1. Economic Value Creation

1. Customer Satisfaction

1. FurtherOther Information
2. EUROGATE

1. Glossary

1. CSR Index
2. Contact and Publishing Information

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Experience our sustainability report digitally on your computer, tablet or smartphone and join us on an SDG journey where with the help of selected projects employees report on how we support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

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Foreword by the CEO

Foreword of the CEO

Foreword by the CEO

Dear readers,

Once again, a year characterized by a variety of changes, challenges and also uncertainties lies behind us. It is therefore all the more important that our values and common goals provide us with a collective compass that guides and gives us direction irrespective of external circumstances and ensures that we don't lose sight of the ultimate objective. Everyone at BLG LOGISTICS again made an important contribution to this in 2022: it's the people who work for and with us who turn possibilities into results. This applies to our commercial success as well as to the further development of our sustainability agenda.

While we had all hoped that after two years of pandemic we would finally be able to see a growing return to normality, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has confronted us with a totally new European reality. It currently feels as if one crisis is following immediately on the heels of the last

• and yes, the high energy prices, the sharp rise in inflation and the shortage of skilled labor are also taking their toll on our company in the here and now. And yet, it is crucial that we think long-term and that we continue to do our homework, for example when it comes to tackling climate change. With the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz) and the EU Taxonomy, policymakers have defined new prerequisites for a sustainable economy.

But we do not regard sustainability as a requirement imposed on us from outside. For BLG, sustainability has long been more than merely a non-committal management and communication task. Sustainability is an integral part of our DNA and a basic premise for our success.

This long-term orientation is one of the reasons for our decision to commit to the UN Global Compact (UNGC), which we signed up to in August 2022. The world's largest and most important initiative for responsible corporate governance aims to strategically anchor sustainability in business so that companies are in the best possible position to make a contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We have long supported the UNGC's ten principles, but now we have also committed to them formally.

In combination with our own policies and sustainability goals, these principles will serve as benchmarks for our actions in the coming years. These benchmarks are visible in our C3 Bremen lighthouse project, a logistics facility that sets economic, environmental and social standards. Looking back one last time, we can say that we also mastered the year of multiple crises well on the whole. Moving forward, we will focus on what lies ahead - and on the possibilities that we at BLG intend to harness together, as always.

"It's the people who work for and with us who turn possibilities into results."

Cordially yours,

FRANK DREEKE

Chairman of the Board of Management

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