Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to fossil free energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing critical infrastructures.

Its offer to companies, States and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures.

With over 6,000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1,046 billion in 2022 in 24 countries, on 5 continents.

Worthy heirs to the expertise of their founder, the teams of John Cockerill Services assist industrialists and public infrastructure managers in the mounting, operational management, maintenance and modernization of their installations. Thanks to specialized interventions – scheduled or not – and local services to improve the technical, economic and environmental performance of their equipment.

Thanks to a very broad and technological offering, John Cockerill Services serves a large number of industries: chemicals, steelmaking, petro-chemicals, railways, ports, inland waterways, cement, mines and quarries, the production of conventional, renewable and nuclear energy…

John Cockerill Services also designs and supplies certain pieces of new industrial equipment, components and sub-assemblies (shunting locomotives, gearboxes, reducers, butterfly valves, diesel engines…) along with spare parts.

John Cockerill Services has the support of an interconnected network of local intervention units, along with specialized workshops and engineering offices. It has installations in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Brazil, New Caledonia and Africa. It operates on an ad hoc basis in the Middle East.

For more information: https://services.johncockerill.com/en/

Ahlers Logistics has been helping clients with one common goal; finding the best solutions that fit our customers’ profile perfectly.  We enable our customers to stay focused on their core business by creating and managing innovative solutions which add value and solve their supply chain challenges in complex environment. 

History

Founded in 1909 in the Port of Antwerp, Ahlers Logistics operates in 3 regions (Europe, CIS, Asia) helping customers to drive future growth in complex markets, Ahlers Logistics is a family-owned company, 3rd generation Ahlers-Leysen, headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, supported by a worldwide partner network and offices in key locations.

Originally, Ahlers Logistics started as agency operations. Bureau Maritime H.D opened in Antwerp and became one of Antwerp’s leading shipping agencies in the 1930s. In 1952 Mr. André Leysen, son-in-law of Herwig Ahlers joined Ahlers and became chairman in 1963. In the sixties and seventies, Ahlers Logistics transformed from an agency to ship management. They acquired two ice-class ships for the liner service to Finland. Ahlers also entered the liner trade to the USSR (via Latvian ports) and Sweden. Ship management activities were developed for a fleet of reefer ships and bulk carriers ordered at Belgian yards. From the eighties until today, Ahlers Logistics continued to extend their international footprint across Europe, the CIS and Asia.

For more than 110 years Ahlers has been helping customers all over the world. Ahlers is part of the AXE Group which also includes Xylos (an ICT service provider), AXE Investments (an investment company), and Agidens (automatization projects). Consolidated accounts of Ahlers’ parent company Anacom bvba are available on request. Anacom bvba is a holding company controlled by Christian Leysen, Executive Chairman.

We provide state-of-the-art logistics support in sustainable supply chain management, warehousing, projects, and machinery logistics, secured transport, trade logistics, after-sales services, and data analytics.

For more information: https://www.ahlers.com/en