Kuehne+Nagel has acquired the road logistics activities of LSL-Lohmöller Spedition und Logistik GmbH, a long-established logistics service provider in Germany offering groupage, LTL and FTL services. This marks another strategic step in strengthening the company’s road logistics network in Europe, following last year’s acquisition of TDN in Spain.

Founded in 1930, Lohmöller is a family-run freight forwarder that combines a strong heritage and a focus on digitisation. Its operational gravity centre is north-west Germany, a dynamic industrial region with substantial road freight activity. In 2024, revenue from road freight activities amounted to approximately EUR 23,5 million.

The acquisition further enhances Kuehne+Nagel’s domestic road freight network in Germany as well as its broader European footprint, with 142 logistics specialists and fifty trucks joining the established network. It also strengthens Kuehne+Nagel’s position within IDS, one of Germany’s largest groupage freight cooperations, with Lohmöller having joined IDS already earlier in 2026.

Hansjörg Rodi, Executive Vice President, Road Logistics, Kuehne+Nagel, says: “With Lohmöller, we welcome a team that shares our commitment to customer-proximity and qualitative services supported by technology and sustainability. We look forward to jointly expanding the value we deliver to our customers.”

Benedikt Lohmöller, representing Lohmöller, says: “Thanks to our long-standing partnership in the international logistics space established in 2018, both companies are well-acquainted and have developed a mutual appreciation. We are fully aligned in our commercial approach and share the same values, particularly regarding our relationships with customers and employees, which makes this collaboration an excellent fit.”

The contract logistics activities and industry-related services of Lohmöller are not part of the acquisition and will remain with the current owners. The completion of the transaction is subject to closing conditions and is expected in March.

Kuehne+Nagel has opened a new distribution centre for Sysmex Europe SE and Sysmex Deutschland GmbH, dedicated to diagnostic instruments and reagents. As part of its growth strategy, Kuehne+Nagel is further expanding its commitment to healthcare contract logistics.

With the 10,000 m² healthcare distribution centre in Hamburg, Kuehne+Nagel provides Sysmex with a broad range of services. These include direct-to-customer deliveries in parts of Europe, supply across the entire EMEA region, and same-day dispatch of urgent air freight export orders. The medical products are stored across three temperature zones. A key feature is the device configuration centre, which includes specialised rooms for configuring, pre-assembling, testing, and dispatching customised solutions.

The growing medical technology market demands high standards of quality, safety, and flexibility in logistics. Kuehne+Nagel’s HealthChain quality label ensures that all regulatory, industry-specific, and customer-specific standards are met with the highest quality. This is also a top priority for Sysmex: for over 50 years, the company has been developing diagnostic instruments and is one of the world’s leading providers in in-vitro diagnostics, especially in the field of haematology, haemostasis and urinalysis.

“In a spirit of partnership, we have succeeded in developing a distribution centre focused on efficiency and growth, which is of strategic importance to both companies,” explains Tobias Jerschke, Managing Director of Kuehne+Nagel Germany.

“Our collaboration with KN enables us to tackle two critical dimensions of our supply chain strategy: we continue to generate synergies from integrating the logistic flows of our Sysmex companies in Europe while we prepare ourselves for the expansion of our product portfolio, that will require a more modern logistics system,” says Stefanie Schaal, Board Member of Sysmex Europe SE and Sysmex Deutschland GmbH.

“This logistics centre, tailored to our processes, enables Sysmex to successfully continue the strong growth of recent years in the EMEA region,” adds Alexander Staffeldt, who has led the project on behalf of Sysmex.

As a long-standing airfreight partner of Mercedes-Benz, Kuehne+Nagel has also been supporting Mercedes-Benz's logistics chains to the USA since 2019, for example for the plant in Alabama. For over a year, sustainable fuels have been used in this strategic partnership in the area of transport logistics. Sustainable aviation fuel is used for the vehicle manufacturer's air freight transport, thus, actively supporting Mercedes-Benz in the decarbonisation of their supply chain.

Thanks to the use of SAF, Mercedes-Benz has been able to reduce around 11,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the past twelve months, in comparison to only using conventional fuels. SAF was used on charter flights with Kuehne+Nagel's own Boeing 747-8F cargo aircraft ‘Inspire’ on the route from Stuttgart (Germany) to Birmingham (Alabama, USA).

"Our vision of becoming the most trusted logistics partner for a sustainable future by 2030 means that: As an industry leader we take our responsibility to support our customers in reducing their CO2 emissions seriously", says Heiko Schuhmacher, Senior Vice President Global Air Logistics at Kuehne+Nagel. "We are proud that this pilot project has developed into a long-term collaboration in the spirit of decarbonisation with a strong partner."

Mercedes-Benz and Kuehne+Nagel have set themselves the goal of avoiding and actively reducing emissions in transport logistics. "Transport logistics is a key part of the automotive value chain. By using sustainable aviation fuel for air freight transport, we can reduce emissions along our value chain and take an important step towards net carbon neutrality. We are delighted to reach another milestone in sustainable logistics together with our partner Kuehne+Nagel," says Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Production, Quality and Supply Chain Management.

The logistics service provider Kuehne+Nagel has opened a new contract logistics centre in Rhineland-Palatinate. With around 55,000 square metres of logistics space, the company ensures the worldwide supply of spare parts for the Wacker Neuson Group from Mülheim-Kärlich. The leading manufacturer of light and compact equipment has been trusting in Kuehne+Nagel’s spare parts logistics solutions for nine years.

The new distribution centre will create 120 jobs. Employees will be supported in their work by ‘goods-to-person’ assistants: A fleet of over 30 robots will take over the storage and retrieval as well as the transport of the containers and bring the items from the shelves directly to the employees at the picking stations. Thanks to sensors, cameras and algorithms, the autonomous mobile robots are able to work in three dimensions and move independently in dynamic environments by recognising obstacles and adapting their route automatically. 

Over 100,000 different spare parts components for light and compact equipment are stocked and dispatched in this way. The equipment and processes at the site allow the flexible expansion of activities in order to access further volume potential in spare parts distribution in the coming years.

“Kuehne+Nagel and Wacker Neuson represent two iconic brands in the market with a combined history of more than 300 years,” says Gianfranco Sgro, Executive Vice President Contract Logistics and Integrated Logistics at Kuehne+Nagel International AG. “We have taken up our customer's strategic challenge for the coming years and have built the basis for tailored after-market services to support increasing market penetration.”

Andrew Voigt, Managing Director of Wacker Neuson Aftermarket & Services GmbH, comments: “With our state-of-the-art distribution centre and the operation of our trusted partner Kühne+Nagel, we are setting up our spare parts and service business for the future. We are the partner at our customers’ side for the entire service life of the machines and create sustainable relationships - beyond the sale of the machines and light equipment."