Support, adapt and repeat. How Kuehne+Nagel is helping both employees and customers in Ukraine

Kuehne+Nagel Switzerland-based Kuehne+Nagel is a worldwide leader in logistics. About 350 people work in the Ukrainian subsidiary and the company provides a full range of logistics services: Sea, air, road and contract logistics as well as customs brokerage services.

On the 24th of February 2022 Russian troops took control of Antonov airport, close to Gostomel, Kuehne+Nagel's main location in Ukraine. This resulted in the loss of significant warehouse capacity.Despite this, the company quickly managed to resume operations and provide stability and continuity in uncertain circumstances, for both employees and customers.

The company has adapted to the new environment and is actively looking towards the future to ensure its services match the needs of the country.As a responsible global business, last July the company completely withdrew from the Russian and Belarusian markets. Help for UkraineImmediately following the start of the war, the company allocated 10 million Swiss francs (over 10.1 million dollars) for the free transportation and storage of humanitarian goods provided by global international humanitarian organizations and international donors.In cooperation with international humanitarian organizations, the Kuehne+Nagel Emergency & Relief Logistics team organized warehouses for humanitarian aid in Poland and Hungary.

So far since the beginning of the war, Kuehne+Nagel has delivered more than 600 tons of humanitarian goods.Once hostilities ended in the Kyiv region, Kuehne+Nagel contributed to the resuming of the Vyshneve customs clearance point operations located at its location in Gostomel. The area of the customs clearance point was doubled, shortening the length of customs clearance for deliveries.