The Wiesbaden cement manufacturer Dyckerhoff

, which has several production sites in the country and employs almost 1,300 people there, who are now in great danger,

has a particularly intensive look at the Ukraine .

Because one of the company's cement works, which belongs to the Italian group Buzzi Unicem, is in Volyn in the northwest of the country, not far from the city of Rivne, the second is near the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.

Heavy fighting and explosions were reported from there over the weekend. According to reports, Rivne and the surrounding area were attacked by Russian troops shortly after the start of the war.

By the beginning of the war, the production capacity of the Ukrainian Dyckerhoff subsidiary was, according to its own information, three million tons of cement per year.

Dyckerhoff also produced ready-mixed concrete in the Ukraine, with plants in Kyiv, Odessa and Mykolaiv.

A spokesman from the Italian headquarters said that they basically want to keep operations going, and that appropriate emergency plans have been prepared.

However, he was also unable to predict to what extent they will work: "We are monitoring developments closely, and the safety of our employees is our top priority."

Schenker has withdrawn its delivery promise

The cement manufacturer, which can look back on more than 150 years of history, also operates production sites in Russia.

In Germany, the company owns a total of seven cement plants and 110 ready-mixed concrete plants.

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logistics giant DB Schenker

, whose German headquarters are registered in Frankfurt, has urged its Ukrainian employees to stay home and seek safety after Thursday's Russian attacks.

Of course, the events there were also taken by surprise, but the company had drawn up contingency plans in case of an emergency.

All transports to and from the Ukraine were stopped immediately, delivery promises were withdrawn and customers were asked to get in touch with the local contacts about urgent transport orders to the Ukraine, Russia or Belarus.

Since then, the people of Frankfurt have been trying to get an overview of the constantly changing situation.

Schenker has been active in the Ukraine since 1996 and handles international and domestic goods transport by land, air and sea, takes on contract logistics and customs clearance and maintains bonded warehouses at its three locations in the country.

The company works with local logistic companies.

A company spokesman confirmed that the warehouses were closed and secured as well as possible, and there had been no destruction so far.

The number of 90 employees in relation to the 74,000 employees worldwide shows that the subsidiary in Ukraine is one of the smaller ones for the group.

According to the spokesman, however, the effects on business are far more noticeable as a result of the war, for example due to the blocking of Ukrainian airspace, through which flights to Asia previously also went.

For example, it is still unclear how the train connections through Eastern Europe, Russia and China will continue.

Logisticians will also feel the consequences of the trade sanctions imposed by the EU.

Messer has a gas operation in Dnipro

To the 30 locations worldwide of the gas manufacturer

Messer

, which supplies the industry with gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, helium, welding gases and many more, also owns Ukraine.

In the city of Dnipro there is a production plant for liquid nitrogen, oxygen and argon.

The company operates a bottling plant in Kharkiv, which is now hotly contested.

However, all employees there are healthy and have sought shelter in bunkers or outside of the big cities.

Messer supplies a thousand companies in the country with its industrial gases, for which there are a good dozen sales offices spread across the country.

A total of 100 Ukrainians work for the Hessians, plus 30 employees at the logistics company Elme Trans. "We can't do much at the moment," admitted a spokesman.

The management is currently trying to maintain the exchange of messages.

"If anything should happen,