Core values

Values of Ahlers

Ahlers is one team of people working together around the world. Our mission is to solve the logistic and maritime problems of our customers.

We work across borders and we work across cultures. We believe that these cultural differences can help us to convince customers to work with us: we are close to them in many places in the world where the economy is growing. We work with local people who know the language, the procedures, the habits, the law etc …

Because we are so scattered in different places with different backgrounds, we need simple guidelines that unify our multicultural company: we need an “Ahlers Style”. When we talk to each other and work together, we speak a common language that we all recognize. The basis for that are our company values.

For the management, these company values are crucial. They will act upon it, be evaluated on it and they will use it as their basis for the evaluation of every employee. Our success is a result of our Commitment, Entrepreneurship, Integrity and Cooperation!

Christian Leysen

Corporate governance

The board of Ahlers N.V. as holding company of the group is composed of the executive chairman, representatives of the shareholders and independant directors. It meets at least four times a year and plays an active role in shaping the long term strategy of the group. Ahlers N.V. is part of the AXE group and financially controlled by the holding company Anacom with interests in financial services, IT and real estate. -

Quality

We strongly believe in quality and processes to manage the business. This is made concrete in our AQUA program (Ahlers Quality) which main goals are to improve and intensify the communication and cooperation between our offices worldwide (“leverage the network”) and to obtain a standard Ahlers quality level (“do the right things in the right way at the right time”).