From: Petra Vogelsang <p.vogelsang@blauwal-logistik.example>
To: All staff, Blauwal Logistik GmbH <alle@blauwal-logistik.example>
Cc: Tomás Iglesias <t.iglesias@gezeitenwerk.example>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:40:00 +0100
Subject: We are live — thank you, and what happens next

Dear colleagues,

Since Tuesday, **17 March 2026**, the entire Blauwal warehouse estate — every site Blauwal Logistics
operates — has been live on QUAYSTONE.
The last convoy of sites crossed over that morning, passed its go/no-go gates without a waiver,
and Projekt LEUCHTFEUER — after two years and a great deal of weather — has brought every ship
into harbour. Nobody sank. That was always the whole plan.

I want to be honest about the calendar, because this programme has earned its honesty the hard
way. We are arriving well over a year after the date the first charter promised, and each
correction along the way — the re-planned timeline, the database change, the pilot's hold point,
the quarter we gave the customs certification — was argued about at the time and turned out to be
worth it. We chose, again and again, to arrive late rather than to arrive wrong, and this week the
estate is running as quiet proof of that choice. I will take that trade every single time, and I
said so in this programme's very first month.

Some numbers for the record, so the story stays attached to facts. Heike's closing figures put
the total programme spend at **EUR 2.62 million** against the revised budget of EUR 2.4 million —
an overrun she flagged to the Geschäftsführung in the autumn, with causes documented: the customs
certification delay and the extended dual-running of the two systems account for nearly all of it.
The stability story you can read in one line from Marek's January status note, which I quote here
because his numbered lists have become this programme's folk art and I could not put it better:

> From Marek Duszek's status note of 12 January 2026:
> 1. BasaltDB has now run 47 consecutive weeks without an unplanned restart.
> 2. Interface backlog: zero. Keep it there.
> —MD

That is the platform you are standing on now: measured, boring, dependable. In a warehouse
system, boring is the highest compliment I know.

What happens next. KOMET remains readable while we complete the archive extraction for customs
and audit history; **the old system will be finally switched off on 30 September 2026**, and yes,
there will be a small wake for it — seventeen years of service deserve a toast, even from those
of us it kept awake. Hypercare crews remain at the three youngest sites for another two weeks.
And once the water is calm, we will talk about what the company builds *on top of* this platform;
those of you in customer-facing roles have heard rumours about a portal, and for once the rumours
are roughly right. More on that in April, from its own team — it is their story to tell, not mine.

To every warehouse crew that trained in the evenings, to the interface team that re-tested until
the conversions were boring, to Sabine's master-data campaign — fifteen months of unglamorous
persistence that made every cutover after Walle quietly uneventful — to Heike for envelopes
defended and honestly reported, to Marek for dissent in writing and delivery without sulking, and
to our partners at Gezeitenwerk who sat in our halls on their weekends: thank you. This was the
largest change this company's operations have seen in a generation, and you made it look — from
the loading dock, on a normal Tuesday — like nothing happened at all. That is what a good landfall
looks like.

Fair winds,
Petra

Petra Vogelsang
Head of IT / Programme Lead, Projekt LEUCHTFEUER
Blauwal Logistik GmbH, Bremen
