Organisation
Katoen Natie achieves great added value for its customers in the services it provides. The outstanding quality of the service and the continuous cost monitoring form the basis for sustainable customer relations. Katoen Natie operates port terminals, logistics terminals and on-site terminals. The group also provides all kinds of semi-industrial services, designs, builds and manages logistics platforms and complete supply chains to different industries. Every industry has its unique features and requirements. In order to be able to provide optimum service to our customers within their specific industrial sector, the group is structured according to each industry. Each business unit has great autonomy, which leads to a short-term decision making process.
Vision
Requirements to logistics are becoming more and more intense. On one hand, customers become more demanding, on the other, distance between production and consumption locations becomes longer. This means that distribution becomes more global and more complex, whilst environmental and economical pressure is increasing. This means that our customers are constantly looking for more cost-efficient, reliable and sustainable solutions.
Mission
The mission of the company is simple: creating maximum added value. Katoen Natie creates maximum value by providing tailor-made, full service logistics and engineering solutions to a key number of customers, all over the world. Our purpose is unambiguous. All our efforts and investments are geared towards offering better services and smarter solutions to our customers. We will continue to enhance their performance and reduce their cost. We use all of our knowledge, experience and inventiveness to do so.
Company Culture
Here at Katoen Natie, we believe that it is of life-or-death importance to an organization to maintain simplicity and simple smarts during its evolution and growth. Healthy common sense, a keen sense of costs and staying clear of complicated systems and theories form the basis for good management. All of this is described in our “company bible”. It is what we live by, every day.
Our people make the difference
Katoen Natie is strongly driven by its values. It developed a culture of its own, where hard work and simplicity are keystones to success.
Confidence in our people is the basis of their drive and dedication for their customers. We invest in the talent of each of our employees and allow our people to grow.
Objective
Katoen Natie is a logistics company with a high level of applied engineering. The mission to