Sven Wellbrock will serve as managing director of BLG AutoTransport GmbH from 1 October 2025. (Photo: BLG)
Sven Wellbrock will serve as managing director of BLG AutoTransport GmbH from 1 October 2025. (Photo: BLG)
2025-09-17

Sven Wellbrock will assume the management of BLG AutoTransport GmbH & Co. KG as of October 1, 2025. The parent company, BLG Logistics, announced this in a press release. In this role, he will be responsible for the Transportation and Rail divisions.

Wellbrock spent more than 20 years in various management positions at the VTG Group, including as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Safety Officer. From 2013 to 2023, he served as Chairman of the Management Board of VTG Rail Europe GmbH, responsible for all leasing activities and

plants of VTG in Europe. From 2019 also for the rail logistics and EVU companies. During this time, according to BLG, he led various transformation projects. His career is characterized by the development and integration of business areas as well as the implementation of innovative and digital solutions in the rail sector.

“With Sven Wellbrock, we gain a proven expert in multimodal logistics. His many years of experience in the rail sector and his strategic view of the entire transport chain will significantly strengthen BLG. We look forward

to collaborating and to the impulses he will bring for integrating the business fields,” says Axel Krichel, a member of the Executive Board and COO of the BLG Group.

With his move to BLG, Wellbrock is to extend his comprehensive experience in the rail sector to also cover the fields of road and inland shipping. This should strengthen the integration of the modes of transport and help advance sustainable solutions for BLG's customers. Going forward, the manager will be based in both Bremen and Mainz.

“I am very

pleased to become part of the BLG team. The connection of rail, road and inland shipping is essential in order to offer our customers competitive solutions. Together with colleagues, I want to bring the strengths of the individual areas even more closely together and develop innovative solutions.”

His career, a Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur with a focus on transport and logistics, has taken him through roles at Kühne & Nagel, Preussag AG, and Transwaggon AG in the Swiss city of Zug, and through various leadership positions at the VTG Group to