Tag: Freight transport
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Container shortages continue to worsen after Christmas
Container traffic jam in the Port of Los Angeles Problems in the US are responsible for 80 percent of global ship delays. (Photo: imago images/ZUMA Wire) Dusseldorf German retailers and…
Group logistics should become greener – more transports by rail
Dusseldorf There are a good 300 kilometers between Braunschweig and Zwickau. For the transport of parts from its own component plant in the north of Braunschweig to the car factory…
“Rail has to expand small-scale traffic” – forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege call for a turnaround in traffic
Forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege (from left) “We are convinced that the future growth in transport can no longer take place exclusively on the road.” Photo: Fiege Greven In the…
“Rail has to expand small-scale traffic” – forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege call for a turnaround in traffic
Forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege (from left) “We are convinced that the future growth in transport can no longer take place exclusively on the road.” Photo: Fiege Greven In the…
“Rail has to expand small-scale traffic” – forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege call for a turnaround in traffic
Forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege (from left) “We are convinced that the future growth in transport can no longer take place exclusively on the road.” Photo: Fiege Greven In the…
The logistics group Hellmann is the victim of a cyber attack
Hellmann According to security experts, there are many indications that Hellmann has been the victim of a ransomware attack. (Photo: Hellmann) Düsseldorf, Osnabrück At the Osnabrück headquarters of the Hellmann…
Container port that nobody wants to go to: Shipping companies ignore Oakland
San Francisco The slump comes as a surprise: While container shipping in the USA experienced a great boom in the run-up to Christmas and there was a shortage of goods…
Instead of efficiency, there is a loss of control
Berlin The new traffic light coalition will find it difficult to achieve its ambitious climate goals in the transport sector. Leading transport economists are convinced of this. The reason for…
Emergency merger of the German North Sea ports threatens the port of Hamburg
Hamburg 114,000 jobs in the metropolitan region depend directly on the port industry. (Photo: ddp, Getty Images, Hapag-Lloyd (M)) Wilhelmshaven On this gloomy November day in the Jade-Weser-Port there is…
Emergency merger of the German North Sea ports threatens the port of Hamburg
Hamburg 114,000 jobs in the metropolitan region depend directly on the port industry. (Photo: ddp, Getty Images, Hapag-Lloyd (M)) Wilhelmshaven On this gloomy November day in the Jade-Weser-Port there is…
Wagon rental company VTG is being prepared for sale
VTG wagons VTG is Europe’s largest rail freight car rental company. (Photo: VTG) Frankfurt The Hamburg rail logistics group VTG is again facing a change of owner. US bank Morgan…
Rail bundles freight traffic to and from China in a new company
Freight wagons Traffic between Asia and Europe is currently being handled on ten routes. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The freight transport subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, DB Cargo, is bundling transport to…
The sale of DB subsidiary Schenker is getting closer
DB Schenker trucks The sale of the logistics subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn is likely to come back on the agenda. (Photo: DB Systel GmbH) Frankfurt, Berlin At Deutsche Bahn, there…
Freight traffic: permanent congestion on the rails
Berlin, Frankfurt Jes-Christian Hansen, Managing Director of Habema Futtermittel GmbH in Hamburg, has never seen anything like it. The company has been regularly transporting animal feed by train since 2012…
Hapag-Lloyd does not see the end of the bottlenecks before February 2022
Dusseldorf Hapag-Lloyd boss Rolf Habben Jansen has bad news for Germany’s importers. “There will be no relaxation in sea transport until the Chinese New Year celebrations at the beginning of…
US corporations take logistics into their own hands
New York, San Francisco The ride over the new, glistening white Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland is an unusual sight these days. Between six and 15 ships, large…
The ports of Hamburg, Bremen & Wilhelmshaven before merger
Hamburg Elbe Harbor The Hanseatic city gives up its resistance to cooperation with Bremen and Wilhelmshaven. (Photo: picture alliance / Hauke-Christian Dittrich) Dusseldorf The merger of the port operators in…
Supply bottlenecks: Logisticians are planning an early warning system
Dusseldorf The devastating shortage of semiconductors in the automotive industry is giving rise to plans in logistics to set up an early warning system that works worldwide. “We are working…