Tag: Forwarders & Freight Offices
Takeovers in the logistics industry collapse drastically
Dusseldorf After the takeover hype during the corona pandemic, company acquisitions in the transport industry have collapsed drastically this year. This is the result of a study just published by…
Board examines cuts in freight transport
Freight station in Halle/Saale Of 144 train formation facilities, only ten could remain after 2024. (Photo: dpa) Hamm On the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn (DB), rail freight boss…
Board examines clearcutting in freight transport
Freight station in Halle/Saale Of 144 train formation facilities, only ten could remain after 2024. (Photo: dpa) Hamm On the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn (DB), rail freight boss…
Italian Post significantly increases stake in logistics unicorn
Sennder boss and co-founder David Nothacker Nothacker co-founded Sennder in 2015 and also initiated the joint venture with Poste Italiane. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Berlin The Italian Post is significantly expanding…
Bremer Hafengesellschaft turns warehouse into a power plant
Economics Minister Robert Habeck at the opening of the BLG logistics center With Germany’s largest connected solar system on the roof, the logistics center largely supplies itself with electricity. (Photo:…
Logisticians are changing from drivers to victims of inflation
Container ship in the port of Hamburg As late as 2022, the high freight rates caused a lot of price increases. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf US President Joe Bilden complained last…
Minister Wissing should not introduce climate tolls before 2025
Berlin Freight forwarders and logistics service providers warn Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) against introducing the planned doubling of the truck toll at the end of the year. Above…
California faces ban on diesel truck purchases
Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck With the futuristic-looking concept truck, Daimler is giving a preview of its future truck flagship with a range of more than 1000 kilometers for the first time.…
In 2023, Bahn will be back deep in the red – 40 billion euros in debt
Deutsche Bahn The state-owned company has billions in debt. (Photo: IMAGO/Arnulf Hettrich) Berlin After a brief recovery in 2022, Deutsche Bahn expects to be back in the red again this…
How the family business became a profit champion
Shipping company CMA CGM Rodolphe Saadé, Tanya Saade Zeenny and Jacques Saadé at the inauguration of a container ship in 2018. (Photo: Bloomberg) Marseilles The Tour CMA CGM glitters in…
How the family business became a profit champion
CMA CGM container ship The family-run shipping company CMA CGM is the most profitable company in France. (Photo: dpa) Marseilles The Tour CMA CGM glitters in the Marseille sunlight. The…
Blackstone wants to attack in Germany – with a location in Frankfurt
The Frankfurt Messeturm is owned by Blackstone Blackstone is primarily invested in real estate in Germany and now wants to buy more companies. According to financial sources, Blackstone is also…
Boss Stefan Paul wants to secure profits from the pandemic in the long term
Zurich Stefan Paul started to make the state of emergency normal. When the manager became head of the Swiss logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel in August 2022, high rates in…
Rhenus becomes Germany’s largest private transport company
Duisburg Indiscriminately, at least that’s what it seemed at first, the Westphalian transport company Rhenus has made several purchases in recent weeks. The shopping spree with the Danish forwarding and…
The end of the container cartels – Why Maersk and MSC are breaking their alliance
MSC and Maersk The two shipping giants end their alliance. (Photo: Bloomberg, Montage) Singapore The steel box of the Swiss shipping company MSC floats almost silently over the deck of…
The fat years in air freight are over
Frankfurt Air freight traditionally also benefits from the boost in the Christmas business. Companies stock warehouses and shelves with goods and parts that often have to be brought in by…
Klaus-Michael Kühne: Strategist 2022
Klaus Michael Kuehne The entrepreneur is the majority owner of the logistics service provider Kühne + Nagel International AG as well as holdings in Hapag-Lloyd AG, Lufthansa AG and HSV…
Everstox helps small online retailers with logistics from the cloud
Boris Bösch, Johannes Tress and Felix Haberland (from left) The founders want to make Everstox a unicorn in the long term. (Photo: Everstox) Berlin Delivery bottlenecks, high fuel prices, shortage…
Logistics software company Transporeon sold for billions
Freeway Transporeon connects logistics companies, suppliers, shippers and retailers. (Photo: dpa) Munich The Ulm logistics software company Transporeon is sold to the USA for 1.88 billion euros. The industrial technology…
Supervisory Board lays the groundwork for Schenker sale
Trucks from DB Schenker The federal government, as the owner of Deutsche Bahn, sets the course for a sale of the logistics subsidiary. (Photo: Volkswagen AG) Frankfurt Next step in…