Adding value is the primary role of logistics companies. Through the provision of a range of customer-oriented services and a decentralized structure, the Belgian logistics specialist Katoen Natie provides integrated, tailor-made logistics and engineering solutions to clients all over the world. Created in Antwerp in 1895 as a cooperative for stevedores working the docks handling cotton (katoen is the Dutch word for cotton), it is now a global logistics leader. Its first foreign subsidiary was set up in the Lorraine region in France in 1995.