The Kuehne + Nagel Group (K+N) has established a wholly-owned subsidiary in Belarus, based in the capital of Minsk after operating representative offices there and in Brest since 1996. The group has been servicing customers there, primarily the automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, retail, wood production and power engineering industries.

“With its geographical position between Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and China, Belarus is a strategically important country in which we see an interesting potential,” said K+N’s regional manager Eastern Europe, Bob Mihok.

“Our own subsidiary will enable us to better integrate the country into our worldwide network and to accelerate our strategic expansion in Eastern Europe. It will also help to leverage our globally standardised processes and to offer our customers the full range of our integrated logistics service portfolio.”